(Juan Sequeda) In 2005, I started learning about the so-called Semantic Web. It wasn’t till 2008, the same year I started my PhD, that I finally understood what the Semantic Web was really about. At the time, I made a $1000 bet with 3 college buddies that the Semantic Web would be mainstream by the
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An Introduction to Big Data, March 27 2012
(Susan Visser) Big Data can mean a lot of things to a lot of people; but one thing we’re sure of, it’s the hottest thing to hit the IT landscape. In this chat you’ll start with an introduction to Big Data so we’re all on common ground as to what it is, how to spot it, and what the opportunities […]
6 Ways To Avoid Mass Assignment in ASP.NET MVC
(K. Scott Allen) One of the scenarios that I always demonstrate during an ASP.NET MVC class is how to create a mass assignment vulnerability and then execute an over-posting attack. It is a mass assignment vulnerability that led to a severe problem on github last week.
Heat Maps for SSRS using Map Control
(Jason Thomas) I have always been inspired by a particular quote from Arthur C Clarke – “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible”. The more you think of it, the more you make sense out of it. If you decide in your mind that something is impossib
DB2 Case Statement Performance
(Shalom Momi Sabag) Recently someone approached me and asked for help with a DB2 query that he had, and that query had some real nasty case statements in it, so it got me curious about case statement optimization.
SQL Server Ranking Functions
(Deanna Dicken) There are four ranking functions included with SQL Server (starting with SQL Server 2005). Those functions; ROW_NUMBER, RANK, DENSE_RANK, and NTILE; can be used to rank the rows of your result set over a partition. This article will present those functions and examples of their use.
Working with Variables in SQL Server Integration Services
(Robert Sheldon) SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) supports two types of variables: system and user-defined. SSIS automatically generates the system variables when you create a package. That’s not the case for user-defined variables. You create them as needed when setting up your package.
Make HTML5 microdata useful, Part 2: Next generation aggregation with microdata
(Lin Clark) Part 1 of this series showed how to use microdata with Schema.org terms so search engines can display your content better in search results. It also showed how to reuse that same microdata markup to improve the display on your own site. In this article, learn to use microdata to enable a
Building Task Based WCF Services with Task Parallel Library
(Jeffrey Juday) Tasks and the Task Parallel Library (TPL) will soon be entering the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) vernacular. Upcoming .NET language features will be replacing the outdated Asynchronous Programming Model (APM). WCF 4.5 will include Task based options.
ColdFusion 10 – Parsing Dirty HTML Into Valid XML Documents
(Ben Nadel) As I blogged earlier, ColdFusion 10 now supports XPath 2.0 in the xmlSearch() and xmlTransform() functions. This might not sound like a very exciting upgrade; however, when you realize that ColdFusion 10 now enables the parsing of “dirty” HTML code into valid XML documents, suddenly, the