(Michael Sansoterra) Typically, developers love writing new code. And while an application is new and business rules are fresh in the mind, it’s generally pleasurable to enhance code as change requests meander in. But after the years roll on, and business requirements are forgotten, and complex code
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Rendering the Page with Backbone and TypeScript
(Peter Vogel) In last month’s column, I showed you how to set up a Backbone project with TypeScript (and threw in some best practices around organizing your project, structuring your code and defining the Model classes that hold your data).
MVC 5 with EF 6 in Visual Basic – Advanced Entity Framework Scenarios
(Mike Brind) This tutorial is the last in a series of 12 that teach you how to build MVC 5 applications using Entity Framework for data access and Visual Basic. This final tutorial introduces several topics that are useful to be aware of when you go beyond the basics of developing ASP.NET web appli
Sharding for Scale, Cost and Performance
Sharding data is a good way to increase performance for persistence and containing the cost of your software, depending on the engine you select. Sharding data is accomplished by using an algorithm to separate data, placing it on different storage instances for the purposes of balance, redundancy, increased capacity or any combination of the above. You can shard data using […]
jQuery Chatting Application in Asp.net using C# with ChatJS Plugin
(Paresh Lahade) ChatJS chat implemented with two script files one is jQuery.chatjs.js plugin it depends completely on client side. In order to implement the interface between jquery.chatjs.js and the server, you need an adapter.
Tips and Tricks : Delete Complete History and Settings of Management Studio
(blakhani) How many times you have browsed internet and cleared complete history of Internet Explorer (or any other browser)? I have done it many times and due to various reasons. Few days back one of my friend asked that how can same thing be achieved in SQL Server 2014 Management Studio? His goal
Secret Covert Hush-Hush White Space in the DOM…EXPOSED!
(Steve Wellens) Lurking in the shadows of the Stack Overflow website, selling aerosol cans of Bug-No-More to the rubes, I came across a question I thought I could answer. The OP (original poster) was using JavaScript to select and modify HTML elements without success.
Using the MDM Application Toolkit to build MDM-centric business processes, Part 4: Work with MDM integration services
(Tony Garrard) This is the fourth article in a series that describes how to create process applications for master data by using IBM Business Process Manager (BPM). Specifically, this series refers to the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) application toolkit and IBM BPM 8.0.1, both of whic
Slow query using non-deterministic user defined function
(JackLi) Recently we worked with a customer who reported a query that used to run a few seconds in SQL Server 2000 but it never finishes in SQL Server 2008 R2 following upgrade.
Why does the Optimiser not respect my qb_name() hint?
(Martin Bach) I recently was involved in an investigation on a slow-running report on an Exadata system. This was rather interesting, the raw text file with the query was 33kb in size, and SQL Developer formatted the query to > 1000 lines. There were lots of interesting constructs in the query and t