(Ben Nadel) Earlier this week, I looked at converting a binary value into a “bit stream” that would allow for sub-byte reads. I did this because I was trying to figure out how to run Base32 encoding in ColdFusion, which requires splitting binary data up into 5-bit chunks.
Other News
XML serialization and de-serialization helper class using Generics
(Richard Lee) I was doing my now and again constructing on the fly class libraries :), and while this doesn’t save time it sure does help in refining some previously pretty badly written code and smash some ill-conceived ideas.
Improve performance of mixed OLTAP workloads with DB2 shadow tables
(Ayesha Zaka) DB2 with BLU Acceleration has an innovative new feature to make analytics faster and simpler. In this article, learn how shadow tables use BLU Acceleration technologies to improve the performance of analytic queries within your OLTP environment.
File Upload using jQuery AJAX in ASP.NET Web API
(Dukhabandhu Sahoo) This article provides an easy way to upload an image file using jQuery AJAX in ASP.NET Web API.
Implementing Luhn’s Algorithm in T-SQL to validate credit card numbers
(Derek Colley) You are tasked with checking account or credit card numbers for validity, for example as part of a web application handling sensitive card data. You wish to implement this as a function within SQL Server, with the ability to be called with any number and return either TRUE (valid) or
More about query cache =]
(Roberto Spadim) please let me know any english erro =] this’s a draft about everything to be done with query cache (you can disable it too query_cache_type=0)
Oracle DIP filtering
(Frank) In the course of a major redesign of AD Domains at the site I work for, the question arose how to select only those users, which completely migrated to the consolidated domain.
JMS Properties in BPM Suite
(Martien van den Akker) Lately I needed to transfer messages from OSB to BPM Suite. The setup was that OSB calls a Webservice implemented by a Mediator component that publishes the message on a JMS queue. The webservice request contains a mesage header and a message payload.
Lies, damned lies and non production-like performance testing
(Nikolay Savvinov) Chasing cost efficiency, business often cuts back on money spent on UAT boxes used for performance testing. More often than not, this is a bad-decision, because the only thing worse than not having a UAT environment is having a UAT environment that is nothing like production.
Continuous Updates
Gregg Keizer writes about a new model for releasing Microsoft Windows software beginning when Windows 10 hits the market. His editorial is based on input from the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2014 where Michael Silver and Stephen Kleynhans review the plan for future Windows releases. It appears that there is an intention to release updates to the Windows operating system monthly in […]