(Lee Richardson) Part one of this series introduced the first seven common site map navigation problems and their solutions. This part explores more advanced techniques with the final two problems.
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A Database Journal Guide to MySQL 5 Certification: The DBA Stream
(Ian Gilfillan) Last time we looked at the Developer Stream of the MySQL 5 certification. Now, in the last part of this series, we look at the DBA stream. Passing the DBA exam, (the title you can use once qualified is the Certified MySQL 5.0 Database Administrator (DBA)), requires more in-depth know
Review: Oracle Steps Up the Competition in Enterprise Search
(Stephen E. Arnold) Oracle has offered an enterprise search solution for almost 15 years. In the 1990s, the company rolled out search products that stirred PL/SQL queries with dollops of linguistics. Previous enterprise search products that emerged from this work include ConText, InterMedia, Ultra S
Web services integration patterns for Java applications using open source frameworks, Part 2: Implementing receive patterns
(Sukriti Goel and Parameswaran Seshan) In this second installment in a two-part series about Web service integration patterns, explore how to integrate the solicit-response and notification Web service client endpoint patterns with an application. In solicit-response and notification patterns, the a
Reading, Writing and Creating Files in PHP
(Jacques Noah) Reading and writing to files can be useful if you do not require the storing of important data, such as a web counter. I must warn you though, that this method of storage should not be used to store passwords and other critical information, as it is not safe. Here we will discuss how
Building Your First Real VSTO Application
(Tim Huckaby) In this article, I show you how easy it is to build a powerful Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) application for Microsoft Excel. This is a VSTO 101 article, but the application is far from a “Hello World” application; I have demoed this application many times at technical conferen
Content at Your Fingertips
(David Baum) Managing streams of unstructured data—documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and image files—is a problem that won’t disappear soon. Organizations generate and receive a relentless influx of information from online and offline systems, but companies that can’t manage unstructured conte
The XSLDataGrid: XSLT Rocks Ajax
(Lindsey Simon) Most web applications have a requirement somewhere in their interface for a tabular view of data — often, a view of the rows in a database table. In some cases, the use of a static HTML is appropriate, but users have become increasingly accustomed to richer, more malleable
XMLing Legacy Data
(Edmond Woychowsky) Nebulous is a great word, not only is it fun to say, it is also useful in describing the requirements for a project that I worked on recently. The requirements went something like this; take a flat file, that was produced by an upstream mainframe application and produce an XML do
Kernel Modules
(Werner Puschitz) To find out what a particular driver/module does you can in most case use the modinfo command.