(Ken Ramirez) Themes are not a new concept. You’ve probably rolled out a few using Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) styles and classes to format the look and feel of your websites. Using a framework standardizes the approach and lessens the amount of work and code needing to be written.
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ORs, IN lists and LNNVL
(Dominic Brooks) I’ve previously written about manually rewriting an OR condition into a UNION ALL using LNNVL.
Change default language settings in Visual Studio 2012
(K. G. Sreeju Nair) The first thing you need to do after the installation of Visual Studio 2012 is to choose the IDE preferences. Once you select your preferred collection of settings, the IDE will always choose dialogs and other options according to your selection.
Calling a C# DLL from VB.NET
(Hannes Du Preez) Often times the need arises to make use of a C# program’s functionalities inside of a VB.NET program, and vice versa. Usually in this case, a Class Library is created that exposes all the necessary methods to the calling application.
JavaScript namespace and restricted access
(Nicolas Frankel) I began developing with JavaScript more than 10 years ago in order to handle DOM updates on the client-side. At this time, this usage was called DHTML and I was one of the few Java developers that had some interest in it. Still, JavaScript was considered a second-class language, so
Defining Post Deployment Scripts in the SQL Server Data Tools
(Mike Bishop) Maybe I jumped the gun a bit, but I’ve started using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) in Visual Studio 2010. Since then I’ve become SSDT’s biggest fan. The tool is just so much easier to use than the old VS 2010 database projects. But unfortunately, for some reason, I can’t seem to get my
Create a custom administrative client to simplify system administration in WebSphere Application Server V8.5
(Sonali Samantaray) Learn how to write a custom administrative client to invoke the administrative tasks available through the Admin Command Framework in IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5.
IDAA From a DB2 DBA Perspective – Identifying the Challenges and How to Survive Them
(Bjarne Nelson) As I was sitting in on a deep dive session on Netezza at the IBM zIM (z Information Management) Boot Camp in late January 2013, I was having a bit of a déjà vu from way back when I was first introduced to DB2 UDB EEE (Enterprise Extended Edition).
Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON data generation
(Michael Paquier) Postgres 9.2 has introduced JSON as a server data type. At this point, the data was simply stored on server side with integrated wrappers checking that data had a correct JSON format. It was a good first step in order to store directly JSON data on server side but core features in
IBM BLU Acceleration – Best Yet for Big Data!
(Dave Beulke) Database management performance continues to advance with the latest IBM BLU Acceleration technology improvements unveiled today. The IBM BLU Acceleration technology features new innovations from the IBM Research and Development Labs that literally dramatically cuts Big Data issues do