(Rachel Appel) The original intent of JavaScript was for Document Object Model (DOM) manipulation in a small DOM tree. Over time, however, JavaScript has become so popular that it’s now a mainstream language for any kind of app, from small marketplace apps to apps for the enterprise.
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Tutorial : E-mail Templates & Custom Placeholders
(Neha Das) E-mail templates define the structure and content of marketing e-mails that you send to customers using an e-mail or dialog activity.
How to Implement Fault Contract in WCF
(Amit Tiwari) A Fault Contract is a way to handle an error/exception in WCF. In C# we can handle the error using try and catch blocks at the client side. The purpose of a Fault Contract is to handle an error by the service class and display in the client side.
Data Format Description Language (DFDL) message modeling In Websphere Message Broke
(Sandipan Chakraborty) This article shows you how to use the new DFDL support in WebSphere Message Broker V8 to model, create, run, and test messages in both Text and Comma Separated Value (CSV) formats.
Playing hid-and-seek with databases
(Daniël van Eeden) As far as I know there isn’t a well accepted set of best practices for MySQL, but there are many best practices known and used by most MySQL DBA’s. One of those best practices is that the datadir must not be equal to a mountpoint; it has to be a subdirectory of a mountpoint.
Comparing Characters and Numbers in Oracle
(Bobby Durrett) In Oracle when you compare a character and a number in a SQL WHERE clause Oracle converts the character value to a number rather than the other way around. I built a simple example to help me understand how this works.
Looking for Buried Treasure in the Transaction Log
(Robert L Davis) Lately, I’ve been finding more and more reasons to look in the transaction log for investigative purposes. Questions come up quite regularly asking how to determine who performed some action such as deleting data, changing logins, or disabling jobs.
12 Essential Steps After Installing SQL Server
(Sadequl Hu Rolling out SQL Servers is a key task for DBAs. While for some DBAs this can be a frequent exercise, others will have to face it one time or other throughout their career in an organisation.
.NET Security Part 4
(Simon Cooper) Finally, in this series, I am going to cover some of the security issues that can trip you up when using sandboxed appdomains.
Device Detection in ASP.NET MVC 4
(Brij Mohan) In this example I am going to demonstrate the MVC 4 Device detection libraries. ASP.NET MVC 4 introduces Display Modes to which allows you to write device specific application.