(Damon Armstrong) I was remoting into a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) box yesterday because I needed to update the configuration on a few of the servers in the farm. Like most production systems, the server did not have Visual Studio, so I was using Notepad to edit the configuration. As you may know, nav
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Let Semantics Bring Sophistication to Your Applications
(Rod Coffin) Have you ever been frustrated by the lack of sophistication in some of today’s search applications? I certainly have been. For example, I was recently evaluating a tool, called Green Pepper, for automating testable requirements; when I googled the phrase “Green Pepper,” I received a bun
An Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight
(Ziran Sun) In the first part of this article series, we introduced you to Silverlight, walked you through installing the client-side runtime, and showed you some examples of what Silverlight can do.
Using SOAP Headers to validate clients
(rog_21) In this brief article I intend to show how you can secure your web service by using SOAP headers. Often times we create a web service that we only want to enable for our own clients or would like to enable only for authorized clients. You can accomplish this by using SOAP headers to authent
Data Cluster
(Jonathan Lewis) I received an email today containing the following question: For packaged applications, like the Oracle EBS, some indexes tend to develop a high Clustering Factor over time, like the one shown below:
Compression and Decompression of Files using Visual Basic 2005
(Abhishek Singh) Compression is the technique to minimize the size of data (or file) by applying some encoding algorithm. The output of the compression is called compressed or zipped data (or file). Decompression is the reverse of compression to get the source data (or file) back by applying some de
LINQ To Objects – Part 3
(Ged Mead) Although some of the queries we saw at the end of Part 2 are quite impressive – and light years easier than doing it with Loops and If/Then tests – there are still more improvements to come. Let’s take the situation where you want to run Join queries across two separate data sources. T
Building Integrated Applications with WebSphere Dashboard Framework
(Philip Monson, Sam Alexander, Lea Medhurst and Christine Miner) WebSphere Dashboard Framework gives application developers the power to create rich graphical interfaces to business data which allow the end user to make key decisons upon that data. WebSphere Dashboard Framework also provides powerfu
My new best friend – PHP’s create_function()
(Felix Geisendörfer) I meant to introduce you to my new best friend for quite a while but didn’t get around to do it so far. His name is ‘create_function’ and he’s a really useful co-worker. For those of you who just vaguely know him – don’t worry, he’s not so much like his ev(a|i)l cousin. Well, th
MySQL Storage Engines – PBXT
(Peter Zaitsev) I promised to write little articles about all storage engines which sessions I attended during MySQL Users Conference but I did not get too far yet, too busy. So today it is time for PBXT.