(Galo Balda) After my Kscope13 presentation, one of the attendees approached me and asked if I had used regular expressions to try to validate email addresses. He didn’t know about regular expressions before the presentation and he was writing a PL/SQL function (which was getting very complex…) to a
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Oracle 12c, ILM Management Part-3, Heat Map….
(Aman Sharma) In the last two parts, we saw two new approaches available in 12c for the better management of the data that’s considered to be stale or inactive in a database-In-Database Archiving and Temporal Validity.
Working with Shadow DOM
(Matt West) As developers we often need to create widgets for interfaces that make it easier to accomplish certain tasks. These might be sliders for controlling video playback, calendar pickers for selecting dates or any other number of other useful widgets. The problem that we face when creating th
Using Tracing in ASP.NET Web API
(Bipin Joshi) While debugging an ASP.NET Web API you may need to figure out how your code is being executed and you may also want to track its execution sequence. That is where tracing comes into the picture. Using tracing you can trace the flow of execution and various events happening in the Web A
If you’re not using Glimpse with ASP.NET for debugging and profiling, you’re missing out
(Scott Hanselman) I’ve blogged about Glimpse since the day I first saw it at Mix 2011’s open source fest. It’s popular, but frankly, Glimpse is so useful more people need to know about it.
SSWUGtv Security Edition: Cross-platform security; how do you have a hybrid environment and keep it secure?
Video Programming for IT Professionals
Finding Your Way Around a SharePoint Site
(Ishai Sagi) This chapter shows you how to get around a SharePoint site, with some common tasks that you might want to do in every SharePoint site you use. It explains how to log on to a SharePoint site and the different navigation options in SharePoint sites.
Handle Many-to-Many Relationships in Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC
(Peter Vogel) It’s not unusual to have many-to-many relationships in an application. A recent project I worked on had multiple service technicians assigned to multiple locations, for instance.
SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services XMLA
(Scott Murray) Cube developer often flippantly use the term XMLA in there discussion of maintaining, scripting, backing up, and restoring cubes and other SSAS objects; what exactly is XMLA and how can it be used?
Fluent Code in C#
(Tom Fischer) In LINQ, the ‘fluent’ method syntax flows logically and intuitively, and allows them to be combined simply, because each method returns the appropriate type of object for the next. Can this fluent technique be extended as an API style to make it easier to develop C# team-based applica

