(cmumford) The Microsoft .NET framework makes it very easy to serialize an object to XML. It has its shortcomings which I won’t go into here, but all-in-all, it is quite useful. Something I’ve wanted to do for some time now is to write out (serialize) an object in XML format while including a styles
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The Beginning of AJAX Standardization
(Pawe³ G³owacki) The W3C is not sleeping. A few weeks ago, the first working draft of the The XMLHttpRequest Object specification was published. The beginnings of this standard may have huge implications for AJAX and Atlas programmers. This is an important step for highly interactive Web application
Open source EnterpriseDB takes aim at Oracle customers
(Mark Brunelli) Open source software vendor EnterpriseDB Corp. kicked off the Collaborate ’06 conference today by unveiling new functionally designed to make it easier for Oracle users to switch to EnterpriseDB’s namesake PostgreSQL-based database management system. (R)
Configure Windows Firewall to allow SQL Server connections
(Serdar Yegulalp) The Windows Firewall, which ships standard with Windows Server 2003 in all its incarnations, provides a basic level of protection. It’s nothing spectacular, but it’s a good first line of defense in the absence of more sophisticated products like Microsoft’s own ISA Server or a hard
Error messages are logged in the SQL Server error log when you use SQL Server 2000 on a computer that is running Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 or Windows Server 2003
Consider the following scenario. You use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 on a computer that is running one of the following operating systems: • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 (SP4) • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Advanced MySQL Replication Techniques
(Giuseppe Maxia) You may know about the MySQL Cluster, which is a complex architecture to achieve high availability and performance. One of the advantages of MySQL Cluster is that each node is a peer to the others, whereas in a normal replicating system you have a master and many slaves, and applica
Wrapper Class for Parsing Fixed-Width, Multiple Section Files
(kennster) I recently had a requirement to develop an import parser for a series of mainframe reports, all of which 133 bytes wide, with a multi-line header on each page, followed by n number of detail rows, and a summary section of possibly more than one line, essentially, the raw ASCII data sent t
Distribute search results as RSS feeds using WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition
(Srinivas Varma Chitiveli) RSS feeds are based on a standardized XML format that represents syndication of information. Using the RSS format, you can create a data feed that supplies headlines, links, and article summaries from your Web sites. Other sites can incorporate your information into their
Kick-start your Java apps, Part 2
(Sing Li) The combination of Eclipse, DB2 Express-C, and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition — all free to download, use, and deploy — is an excellent from-prototype-to-production suite for all of your Java and Java enterprise development needs. What might not be obvious is the relative
Authentication in Applications
(Chad Cook) Authentication is the act of establishing identity via the presentation of information that allows the verifier to know the presenter is who or what it claims. This identity could be any number of things, including: –People –Systems –Applications –Messages