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Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups Read-Only Routing using PowerShell
(Edwin Sarmiento) In a previous tip on Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group Read-Only Routing using T-SQL, we have seen how we can configure read-only routing and to automatically redirect the read-only workloads to a secondary replica after a failover.
SharePoint: Master pages, who needs them anyways?
(Heather Solomon and Dustin Miller) A common misconception about SharePoint master pages is that you need several of them. There are very few reasons to have more than one master page, and differing home page vs. sub page vs. sub site designs isn’t one of them.
Improve the performance of dynamic SKU auto-suggestion
(Junmin Liu) This article presents a browser cache solution to reduce server requests, improve the speed of auto-suggest, and implement dynamic SKU suggestions on the quick order page of a WebSphere Commerce starter store. WebSphere Commerce V7.2 includes a search box in the site navigation header t
Working with XML in PHP
(Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer) I had to store some data without using MySQL in a project I am currently working on because of speed and large number of connection which I know MySQL cannot handle. The only idea that came to my head was to use shared memory and XML.
Social Authentication in ASP.NET MVC 4
(Dino Esposito) As I see things, most Web sites that need to authenticate users will use social authentication gateways. In this context, a social authentication gateway is merely the authentication platform publicly exposed by popular social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
Understanding .NET Using Read-Only Collections
(Peter Vogel) I had a client recently who wanted me to create a class that exposed a read-only collection through one of the class properties. While my client was willing to let other programs loop through that collection and retrieve items from the collection by position, he didn’t want to let thos
Preventing CSRF Hacks in ASP.NET WebAPI
(Suprotim Agarwal) Sometime back Sumit Maitra wrote a nice article about what are CSRF attacks and how to prevent them in ASP.NET MVC. He demoed how a CSRF hack can be engineered and executed in details. He also showed us how ASP.NET MVC provides the AntiRequestForgeryToken to prevent CSRF hacks.
JDeveloper 11g (11.1.2.4.0) Startup Mystery – JDK 1.6.0_24 Not Supported (1.6.0_35 Required)
(Andrejus Baranovskis) New JDeveloper 11g (11.1.2.4.0) on Windows fails to start with embarrassing error after fresh installation, this is known issue and Oracle is fixing it. Seems like Oracle engineers missed it and released JDeveloper 11g (11.1.2.4) with wrong JDK.
When does MySQL data get loaded in and out of cache?
(morgan tocker) A cold cache, or a poorly tuned cache can be responsible for a number of performance problems. If we look at the data and indexes of InnoDB, the cache responsible is called the InnoDB buffer pool.