(Justin Whitney) As a Web developer, I want my DB2 database to do more than just store pretty things. I want to be able to show them off for all the world to see. PHP gives me a fun way to do that. But how do the two work together? And how can I use PHP to make the most […]
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(Tim Dexter) Apologies for the tenuous title, I went looking for a synonym for today’s subject and came up with this, anyway, moving on …
Using XSL and XML to generate dynamic web pages from UNIFACE
(Tony Marston) The method of generating a web page from a UNIFACE application has traditionally been to use the WEBGEN and WEBGET statements from within a UNIFACE Server Page (USP).
New Strategies Simplify Backups
(Ari Kaplan) Backing up data used to be simple. At night, when system use was low, you physically copied everything to tape. If you needed more space, you bought more. Backups might take several hours, but that didn’t bother most people. If you ever had to restore the data, you just copied everythin
How to Optimize Rank Data in MySQL
(Baron Schwartz) Imagine a site that keeps track of gamers’ scores in computer games and displays gamers in “leaderboards” ordered by decreasing score. The site is written in PHP and the backend is a MySQL 5 database server. Because the data changes frequently, the server uses the InnoDB storage eng
Tip: Configure Apache to send the right MIME type for XHTML
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) This tip shows you how to configure Apache to tag Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) documents with the media type application/xhtml+xml for browsers that support it, while still sending text/html to nonconformant browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Using Webparts in ASP.NET 2.0
(abdulsami) It would not be wrong to say that web parts are going to be the future of web-based management systems. Web parts give you the option of dragging and dropping objects on a page, plus changing titles, border styles, and properties of objects at runtime. Before the introduction of web part
Configuring J2EE Application XML Files
(Sam Alapati) In this fourth part of a series covering the management of OC4J and configuring J2EE applications with Oracle 10g Application Server, we take a closer look at at J2EE application deployment files and more.
Count words in VB.NET using Split and Replace functions
(Irina Medvinskaya) Working with strings and performing various string operations is important to any Visual Basic developer. Whenever you need to be able to determine the number of words in a larger string, there is a simple VB.NET function that you can use in order to get the necessary result.
Updating the MultiDayForecast Web Control
(Scott Mitchell) In December 2004 the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) unveiled a Web service for accessing weather forecasts for locations within the United States. To demonstrate using this service and Web services in general, I wrote an article titled Display Local Weather Fo