(Jim Pretin) I find myself longing for the old days, when I could design a web site in 5 minutes on a Sunday and then go play golf for the rest of the afternoon, and still collect a full week of salary for services rendered.
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IBM helps banks renovate payments systems
IBM says that banks are grappling with the task of renovating older payments systems in response to competitive, regulatory and cost pressures. Many payments systems are siloed, running on multiple platforms from different vendors, each with unique data types, interfaces and message routing capabili
BI and Search
(Kevin Quinn) I am in the habit of not typing Web addresses into the address bar of my Web browser. Instead, I type the address, spelling errors and all, into the search box on my browser’s extended menu bar. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the target site comes up in the top two or three links of
Introducing Static Members and Methods in PHP 5
(Alejandro Gervasio) Static properties and methods can be quite useful in a range of situations, not merely for constructing a Singleton class. This article, the first in a two-part series, introduces the basic concepts of static properties and methods, using plenty of hands-on examples.
Parse Comma Delimited TextFile with Visual Basic 2005 TextFieldParser
(Mike McIntyre) A common question in the Visual Basic forums on the Web is: “How do I parse a comma delimited file?”.
XForms tip: Accepting XForms data in Perl
(Tyler Anderson) The Perl programming language is widely used on the Internet, and it will continue to be popular for quite some time. It’s considered an easy language to program in because it handles strings very well. Also, what you can do in a few lines in Perl takes many more lines of code in ot
Using Settings in C#
(Matt Stoecker) The .NET Framework 2.0 allows you to create and access values that are persisted between application execution sessions. These values are called settings. Settings can represent user preferences, or valuable information the application needs to use. For example, you might create a se
Use of detours by a third-party solution is not supported with SQL Server
Utilities that use detours or similar logic to change the behavior of Microsoft SQL Server can result in the following issues: • Performance problems • Incorrect results • Corruption on disk and in memory • Loss of SQL Server response • Unexpected process termination • Inability to use
Push the limits of Java UDRs in Informix Dynamic Server V10
(Halit (Hal) M. Maner and Jean Georges Perrin) Learn how to write server side Java code in the form of a User Defined Routine (UDR), running inside the Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). Also, learn how to set up your project using modern tools such as Eclipse. (R)
MS SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Part 1
(Don Schlichting) Included with SQL 2005 is the new Management Studio graphical interface. This tool combines many of the features that were previously found in the SQL Sever 2000 Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer. Those features are now combined into one interface along with a high number of en