(Adam Delves) In the first part of this series, we took a look at how PHP 5 can be used to manipulate and parse XML files. In this installment, we are going to focus on Ajax, one of the most useful and topical applications of XML.
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Manage Data With VS 2005
(Roger Jennings) The Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap promised that Visual Studio 2005 would “radically enhance the experience of manipulating and retrieving data” by simplifying “data source design from within the development environment” (see Additional Resources). Planned UI enhancements include
Leveraging MySQL skills to learn DB2 Express: DB2 versus MySQL administration and basic tasks
(Allan Tham) Mananging diverse databases is a way of life for most database administrators. It’s rarely the case for DBAs to simply manage a homogeneous set of databases. Often, in a corporate data center, you will have various back-end repositories such as data in the form of spreadsheets, images,
Tips and Tricks Within Microsoft Analysis Services
(Baya Pavliashvili) Microsoft Analysis Services (MSAS) offers a variety of useful wizards to get you up-to-speed with building dimensions and cubes. In fact, the wizards are very useful and make the life of a cube architect easier. However, there is much functionality that isn’t available through wi
Oracle Database Connection Strings in PHP
(Alison Holloway) It’s easy to get confused as to how to specificy your Oracle database connection string, and there’s a handy new feature in Oracle 10g that makes this a whole lot easier. So here’s a little rundown of the three ways to connect to Oracle databases.
Building a Rule Engine with SQL Server
(Joshua Greenberg) Rules play a central role in a wide variety of applications. In addition to the declarative specification of business rules, the simple rule engine design described in this article can be used to implement state machines, predicate dispatchers, or any other rule-based system.
Using the SMO API
(Brian Mains) With the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 product, a new set of .NET API’s are available. These API’s can be used to interface with a SQL Server (called SMO) to perform a multitude of actions. For example, the APIs can retrieve all of the databases, tables, and columns that reside on a specif
Manipulate strings with PHP
(Christian Wenz) This sample chapter, taken from PHP Phrasebook, discusses how to use PHP to manipulate strings. (pdf)
The art of metaprogramming, Part 3: Enterprise metaprogramming
(Jonathan Bartlett) Enterprise metaprogramming is becoming more common all the time as graphical and textual utilities make programming tasks easier and more descriptive, all because of the continuing formalization process occurring under the Object Management Group’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
Dealing with images in content management systems, Part 1
(Tom Crane) The raw images might be from digital cameras, from mobile phones, or from scans. These will almost always be far too large, both in pixel dimensions and file size, to be used as web images. In a typical scenario, the finished images will need to be constrained to a certain pixel size to