(Tom Joyce) Getting consistently high performance out of enterprise-class business applications and infrastructure and delivering it on a consistent basis is extremely difficult. A recent InfoPro survey found that 80 percent of enterprise customers experience an “application brownout” – a disruption
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DITA Standard Practice: Always Make Local Shells
(Eliot Kimber) As I started doing serious work with DITA and in particular implementing specializations, it became clear to me that the first thing anyone using DITA should do is make local copies of all the DITA-provided shell DTDs or schemas. This should just be automatic. [Note: I’m going to use
ColdFusion/.NET Integration
(Catalin Sandu) As both a .NET programmer and ColdFusion developer, I always wondered how I could leverage the world of .NET in ColdFusion. Both platforms come with powerful features and using them together might be a wonderful friendship, if one could only make them cooperate. There are two worlds
The Definitive Guide to ASP.NET Security
(Don Kiely) I don’t know how I missed this for so long, but last week a new ASP.NET security book came to my attention. I’m happy to announce that the book, released late last year, finally fills the void for a definitive guide to writing secure ASP.NET 2.0 applications. The book is Developing More-
Companies Plan to Bring the MySQL Open Source Database to i5/OS — and Deliver DB2 as a Certified Storage Engine for MySQL on System i
MySQL AB and IBM announced a joint technology and reseller agreement to bring support for the MySQL open source database to the IBM System i business computing platform.
Emulating Analytic (AKA Ranking) Functions with MySQL: Part 2
(Stéphane Faroult) As I have discussed more than once, the previously outlined emulation of analytic functions is fine as long as we wisely restrain ourselves to using only the n first (or last) elements in what would have been our partition clause. This is a factor only when n is greater than 1; if
An Introduction to VoiceXML
(Keshav V. Kamat) Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) is a markup language for creating voice user interfaces that use automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). The VoiceXML forum was formed in March 1999, by AT&T, IBM, Lucent and Motorola to promote and to accel
Using Namespace Aliases in .NET
(Jayadev D) In most cases, when there are namespace conflicts, developers tend to use the complete qualified name in the code.
Complex Event Processing with DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and Coral8
(John Morrell) Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a new approach for building applications that process and analyze high-speed event streams. Learn how the pureXML capabilities in IBM DB2 work together with the Coral8 engine for high-performance processing of high-speed event streams. This article al
IBM’s Robust Mainframe Security Extended to Medium-Sized Businesses
IBM today announced that it has made several advances in the powerful System z(TM) mainframe security architecture that are designed to extend the features of IBM’s security-rich server — historically enjoyed by large enterprises — to a growing base of medium-sized mainframe customers that operate