(David Mertz) MochiKit is a useful and high-level library for JavaScript. MochiKit takes its main inspiration from Python, and from the many conveniences the Python standard library offers; but on the side it also smooths over the inconsistencies among browser versions. MochiKit.DOM is a particularl
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Reading and Transforming XML Documents using Visual Basic 2005
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article mainly focuses on reading XML documents in several ways using Visual Basic.NET 2005. Topics discussed include the XMLReader and XSLT, among others.
XAML: Common ground for developers, designers
(Colleen Frye) XAML – Extensible Application Markup Language (pronounced “Zammel”) – is fundamental to Microsoft Windows Vista and .NET 3.0, and promises to bridge the gap between designers and developers. To use these new tools effectively, though, organizations need to re-examine their software en
In Metadata, Good Enough Never Is
(R. Todd Stephens) In 2002, my organization took home the High Accommodation award from Wilshire Conferences, and the following year, we were awarded the "Outstanding Enterprise Metadata Award." By anyone’s standards, we had created a competitive advantage that very few organizations could match. Wi
How to Use Oracle (19) – Intro to Indexes
(Dratz) “The database is slow, can you add an index?” Anyone who has ever worked on either side of a database has heard or asked this question many times.
DB2 Locking and Concurrency for Java Developers
(Jarek Miszczyk) In recent years, the perception of the database’s importance in the application architecture has been slowly eroding. Often, the database is reduced to an ambiguous notion of a persistent data repository. Yet it is really hard to imagine an enterprise-class solution without the serv
Interview: Oracle on integrated applications
(James Murray) IT Week: There has been a lot of concern in the wake of its acquisition spree that certain Oracle applications will be discontinued. Have you done enough to counter these concerns?
WHEN-IMAGE-PRESSED Trigger problem in Oracle Forms 6.0
(Marcos Claver) Yesterday we ran into Oracle bug 1004056 while coding a module for a customer. I hear people think “Oracle Forms 60 that’s old”. Yes it is but it is a platform still used by a lot of people. The bug is related to the fact that image items are not proper synchronized in a multi recor
From Information to Action
(Michael L. Gonzales) Powerful transaction-oriented information systems are commonplace in every major industry, effectively leveling the playing field. Getting ahead of the competition now requires analysis-oriented systems that can revolutionize an organization’s ability to use information it alre
Maximize the archiving throughput of DB2 CommonStore for Lotus Domino
(Reinhold Engelbrecht) DB2 CommonStore for Lotus Domino is a great tool for archiving e-mails or other Notes documents. While in smaller customer environments the default settings are good to achieve sufficient archiving throughput, you should plan to tune CommonStore in medium and large environment