(Antonella Giovannetti) Oracle SOA Suite 11g Adapters allow Middleware service engines (BPEL, BPM, OSB, etc) to communicate with backend systems like E-Business Suite, Siebel, SAP, Databases, Messaging Systems (MQSeries and Oracle Advanced Queuing), Tuxedo, CICS, etc.
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Color scheme tools and creating a SharePoint color theme
(Corrie Haffly) One of the first things I do when embarking on a new SharePoint branding project is to determine the color scheme. Sometimes, the colors are part of the design requirements, but often, I have some leeway in creating suggested color palettes.
How to Give and Get Feedback at Work
I am a business and efficiency coach that specializes in time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. Steve Wynkoop and I talk a lot about designing and managing our professional careers on a weekly interview on SSWUG.org. This episode was about how to give and get feedbac
Using JSON.NET With ASP.NET API
(Mudita Rathore) In this article, there is a description of JSON.NET with the ASP.NET Web API. JSON.NET is a framework that has many features and it uses Java Script Object Notation (JSON). Some features of this are not supported by the DataContractJSONSerializer.
IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 5.0: Clustering
(Kevin Kepros) The IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 5.0 product (also known as C&DS 5.0) is a JEE-based application that can be leveraged by other IBM SPSS products to provide enhanced capabilities. As a JEE-based application C&DS requires an application server to run on, and the logic
Only GROUP BY what you really need to
(Andrew Dunstan) The old rule used to be that if you have a query that contained aggregated columns, you have to GROUP BY every other column selected. These days you are allowed to omit columns that are provably functionally dependent on one or more of the other grouped by columns.
Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Sites using jQuery Mobile
(Suprotim Agarwal) ASP.NET MVC 4 introduced a Mobile Site template that leverages the jQuery Mobile to serve up views tailored for consumption on Mobile devices. Even though the latest ASP.NET site templates have responsive CSS, the mobile views aren’t particularly suited for data intensive views.
Using Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in ASP.NET Web API
(Bipin Joshi) For security reasons browsers prohibit AJAX calls to resources residing outside the current origin. This means you under the current settings, you can’t provide a service exposed by a Web API to some other origin. However, at times you might want to allow a legitimate origin to access
Keeping it in the Family: Batch Movement of Data Between DB2 Databases and/or Subsystems
(Frank Fillmore) A few weeks ago a customer was confronted with a common challenge. They had to move terabytes of data – billions of rows – from DB2 for LUW to DB2 for z/OS. I suggested a “cursor-based load” (aka the “cross-loader”).