(Dave Warner) Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) is a dynamite technique for greatly enhancing the user experience on the Web. But it pays to remember that it’s only necessary because of the distance between the information source and the browser. Shorten that distance, and much of the need for Aj
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Build Ajax into your Web apps with Rails
(Jack D. Herrington) Ruby on Rails provides an excellent platform for building Web applications. Discover how to use the built-in Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) features of the platform to give your application the Web 2.0 rich user interface experience.
Optimize Your Resource Management with Brew and XML
Why, oh why, should you use yet another file to house string, image, and binary resources? With Brew there are several good reasons. As every experienced developer knows, each handset has its own quirks, differences, and eccentricities. You also know that no project has the same specification for mo
Using SQL Server 2005 Web Services with InfoPath
(Travis Rhodes) Here’s your problem: You want to use a stored procedure in a database to access your data through InfoPath, but you don’t really want to have to write script for every query to change the stored procedure’s query parameters. We’ve all been there.
A Visual Explain and Statistics Advisor update
(Willie Favero) I know you all know that DB2 Visual Explain (VE) Version 8 (with Statistics Advisor) is extremely cool. You probably have used VE or have at least seen a presentation about it at one of the conferences. If you are a fan, I have news for you.
SQL Server 2005 Backups
(Grant Fritchey) In the opening chapter of Craig Mullin’s book, Database Administration, he says “In many ways, business today is data”. Within most organizations the person responsible for protecting data is the database administrator… you.
Semantic search in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition, Part 2: Semantic search with UIMA and OmniFind
(Michael Baessler, Andrea Elias, Thilo Goetz and Sebastian Nelke) Walk through an end-to-end scenario for creating and deploying custom text analysis in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.4. Find out everything you need to know from writing and testing a UIMA annotator, deploying it in OmniFind, and
Oracle Streams Configuration: Send CDC Data to 9i
(Lewis Cunningham) The entry builds directly on my last entry, Oracle Streams Configuration: Change Data Capture. This entry will show you how to propagate the changes you captured in that entry to a 9i database.
Working with Expressions, Variables and xsl:for-each in XSLT
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is the fourth article in a series focusing on developing XSLT-oriented applications using ASP.NET 2.0. Even though the series is based on ASP.NET 2.0, I use it only as a transformation engine. The entire focus is on working with XSLT. You can use any transformation engine a
MySQL Bug with FLUSH TABLES and Fulltext Indexes in > MySQL 4.1
(Kevin Burton) It seems that there’s a bug with MyISAM tables in any version of MySQL since 4.1 running fulltext indexes.