(ZulfiqarAhmed) Recently I worked with a customer assisting them in implementing their Web APIs using the new ASP.NET Web API framework. Their API would be public so obviously security came up as the key concern to address.
Other News
Getting HTML5 to work on a simple site
(Justin James) I recently wrote about 10 new HTML5 tags that folks should know about. A common and very fair question about this topic is, “what’s the compatibility like?” I put some of the tags to the test, and made a few sensible conversions to HTML5 on the site that I recently moved to static HTM
RDA, DBMS, RDF
(Karen Coyle) I have written before about some issues relating to RDA and RDF. Today I want to actually consider some things we should consider that should cause us to question the concept of “RDA in RDF.”
How to query CDATA sections in XML
(Matthias Nicola) First, what is a CDATA section in XML? CDATA stands for character data, and a CDATA section in an XML document defines a piece of text that should not be parsed by an XML parser.
Connecting to Oracle with SQL Developer using Bequeath
(Jeff Smith) Bequeath is an interesting word. It’s hard to pronounce for starters, or at least it is for me. So if you want to trip me up during a seminar, ask me about how to connect to Oracle sans Listener.
Simple example on how to caputure the query execution plan from SQLFire
(Pas Apicella) The example below shows how we can capure the query plan for SQL running in SQLFire. Although any user can run an explain plan you must connect as a peer to show the query execution plan as the data is stored in the SYS.STATEMENTPLANS table.
SQL Patch and Force Match
(Luca Canali) SQL patches have recently saved the day for me in a production issue where a given SQL had suddenly changed execution plan causing IO overload (a full scan was done instead of index-based read for a high-load statement).
The View of Foreign Keys That I Wanted
(Michael Swart) So I’ve been working on an automation project that makes frequent use of foreign key metadata. I find myself writing queries for this data but I discovered that there’s no super-easy out-of-the-box view of foreign keys for me to use. Here are the ones I considered.
Object Pipelines
(Richard Carr) A pipeline is a chain of connected steps that process information. In object pipelines, each step receives an object and performs an action using it before passing an object to the next step. This repeats until every step is complete.
A Glance at the jQuery UI
(V.N.S Arun) Every web developer has a good impression of jQuery for performing the client side operations, doing asynchronous javascript calls and traversing through elements on a web page due to its stability and ease of use. Similarly, a library called jQuery UI, which works on top of the jQuery