(Craig Mullins) I sometimes enjoy reading through the annual reports of companies like IBM (that is, companies whose products I use “on the job”), so I thought maybe readers of my blog might enjoy that, too. With that in mind, IBM’s annual report for 2006 is now up and available online.
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DB2 UDB for z/OS V8 and V9 Features and Functionality for PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications – PART 2
(Brian Holroyd) In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the benefits of DB2 V8 for PeopleSoft customers in the areas of Scalability and Performance. Part 2 will look at Availability, SQL Enhancements, Utilities and Network Computing.
Microsoft .NET Feature — Comparing Migration Methodologies
(Mark Juras) The purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of a software migration project and compare two migration methodologies.
Web Deployment Projects
(Fritz Onion) When ASP was first released, Web programming was more difficult because you needed IIS to serve your ASP pages. Later, ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 made everything easier by introducing the Web site model of development. Instead of creating a new project inside Visual Studio, the
MySQL Active – Active Clustering
(Oli Sennhauser) It is possible to use an active – active shared-disk cluster in MySQL in some cases. For doing this you have to fulfill the following requirements: • Works with MyISAM tables only. • POSIX-locking compliant cluster file system on the device (such as OCFS2 or GFS). • External lo
Exploring the window functions in SQL Server 2005
(Arthur Fuller) Window functions in SQL Server 2005 have nothing to do with Microsoft Windows; rather, they create data windows. Window functions enable you to look at different levels of aggregation all at once, making it very easy to retrieve cumulative sums, move averages, and perform other calcu
Transform Java classes into Web services using Axis2 and JiBX, Part 1: Use XML to define a Web service from your Java classes
(Tyler Anderson) XML is powerful in that it can be used to define just about anything. What’s more, it is the basis for an externally readable format for a majority of applications, most notably for the purposes of this series, Axis2 and JiBX. On top of that, as Web services become more and more ubi
Getting Started with XAML
(Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz) Microsoft’s .NET 3 introduces the option of using markup to create Windows applications, much as we’ve used HTML and related markup to create web applications for the past decade. This is a major break-through and a distinct step on the path towards merging the deve
XML Serialization in .NET Framework 2.0 : Part I
(Khaled Samir) The .NET Framework includes several libraries for reading and writing XML files, including the System.Xml.Serialization namespace.
An Introduction to Oracle’s Berkeley XML Database
(Handpeople) This article is intended as part of series of articles which focus on using Oracle’s Berkeley XML Database BDB XML for short. BDB XML is available for download under an Open Source license, for internal and personal development. BDB XML is a small footprint option for use with client ap