Today I wanted to open a conversation about one of the SOLILD principles, because I have observed that talented software developers do not often practice the Open/Closed principle. Overview of Solid S – Single Responsibility. A class does only one thing. O – Open / Closed. A class is open for modification but closed for changing the interface. L – […]
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SSWUGtv: How do you manage two jobs? Laura Rose has some great tips!
Video Programming for IT Professionals Career management advice, coaching and much more. We discuss making the best of your professional development, provide specific tips and ideas for advancing your career and even answer questions from field.
Integrating IBM Integration Bus with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository: Part 3: Endpoint lookup scenarios
(Martin Smithson, Chris Dudley and Ainhoa Larumbe) Combining IBM Integration Bus (IIB) with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) lets you dynamically retrieve service metadata from WSRR and use it to modify message flow behavior at runtime.
ORA-28010
(Andrew Reid) I wondered what would happen if you tried to do a password expire on an externally identified user so I tried it out on an Oracle 11.2 database.
PostgreSQL: A full text search engine – Part 2
(Tim van der Linden) Welcome to the second installment of our look into full text search within PostgreSQL.
Anti-Aliasing Has No Effect On Image Resizing / Scaling In ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) There’s nothing in the ColdFusion documentation that states that anti-aliasing will have any affect on image resizing or scaling. However, many of the code samples in the documentation turn anti-aliasing “ON” before performing a image resize action. As such, there’s a lot of confusion as
Modes of HTML5 Syntax
(Abhishek Jaiswal) In this article am explaining parsing modes/syntax used in HTML5 for various functions and how these parsing modes work and what they do.
Speed Up Entity Framework Startup
(Peter Vogel) Before your first query against an Entity Framework (EF) model, EF gathers data about your database based on the entities and relationships you’ve defined to EF; then EF does it again before your first save. If you have lots of entities and relationships in your model, the information-
Options to Move a Big SQL Server Database to a New Drive with Minimal Downtime
(Daniel Farina) My company bought new storage and we were instructed to move our SQL Server databases to it. The problem arose when we needed to move a 2 TB database with a time frame of 15 minutes. In this tip I will show you how I managed to successfully do it with the native SQL Server options.
Protocols
How are you with Database Connectivity protocols? There have been quite a few over the years. Banyan Vines and IPX/SPX (Novell) have dropped off the radar as their popularity diminished, and the rise of TCP/IP grew. Even still there are other protocols you can use than TCP/IP. If your database is on the same machine as the client you can […]

