(Alex Woodie) As an IBM i system administrator, it’s your job to ensure that data in DB2 for i is available where it’s needed. No server is an island these days, not even the IBM i-based Power Systems servers, and so that means replicating data to external databases is a requirement.
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WPF: How To Create and Dynamically Switch Skins: Part 2
(Ged Mead) In this earlier post I showed you the basic steps for creating some very simple skin choices. In this part I’ll expand on the original idea, using some suggestions from a C# article written by Josh Smith. Although the underlying approach is the same – swapping out Resource Dictionaries
Adding and Displaying Comments to Power Pivot Results in an Excel Pivot Table
(Paul Turley) Requirement: Allow users to enter comments after they review results from a Power Pivot model and then show the comment text in the Pivot Table report results. Here’s a quick example of the final result.
Responsive Web Design: The Downsides
(Dino Esposito) Although Responsive Web Design (RWD) makes it possible to deliver design that is appropriate to a wide range in the dimensions of the browser-window, The designer cannot use RWD alone to adapt the UI to the actual device. It’s not just the subtleties of the display device, but the wa
Group communication behind the scenes
(Tiago J.) The multi master plugin for MySQL is here. MySQL Group Replication ensures virtually synchronous updates on any node in a group of MySQL servers, with conflict handling and failure detection. Distributed recovery is also in the package to ease the process of adding new nodes.
Federation Proxy in OIF / IdP
(Damien Carru) In this article, I will explain the concept of Federation Proxy and how OIF/IdP can easily be configured to become an SP and delegate authentication to another remote IdP instead of authenticating the user locally.
ORA-29339: tablespace block size 16384 does not match configured block sizes
(Flavio Casetta) If you attempt to create a tablespace with a non-standard blocksize, say 16K, you get an exception like this:
Automatic error handling in AngularJS
(Paco van der Linden) In demos and tutorials we only care about the happy-flow of our applications. That is ok, because we only run that code in our own little predictable environment and leaving everything else out makes any framework look nice and easy. Often in blog posts “error handling and such
Quickly Generate XML List of Web Site’s Configuration
(Eric Parvin) The Web Deployment utility allows the administrator to quickly generate a list of configuration details about the web site in a readable format. This is helpful in situations of troubleshooting a web sites behavior by quickly seeing most of the configuration for the site in an easy rea
SetFileIoOverlappedRange messages in SQL Server Errorlogs
(Guillaume Fourrat) I had recently to understand why a SQL Server had repeated occurences of “SetFileIoOverlappedRange failed, GetLastError is 1314” in its errorlog.