(Scott Hanselman) Ints are easy. Strings are mostly easy. Dates? A nightmare. They always will be. There’s different calendars, different formats. Did you know it’s 2004 in the Ethiopian Calendar? Yakatit 26, 2004, in fact. I spoke to a German friend once about how much 9/11 affected me and he said,
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Async Mashups using ASP.NET Web API
(Henrik F Nielsen) This blog shows an example of how to build an ASP.NET Web API ApiController that asynchronously talks to multiple other Web APIs in parallel without blocking a thread on the server. Btw, if you have detected a certain theme in these blogs around using Tasks with ASP.NET Web API th
How to: Create an ASP.NET Indicator Control using C#
(Muhammad Makhaly) Sometimes you want to display an indicator of completeness of something such as indicator of profile completeness, task or operation completeness.
SWP Tip: Organizing Queries and Views
(Holger Knublauch) SPARQL Web Pages is a flexible language to build web interfaces based on RDF data. Its flexibility makes it possible to apply different styles of development, depending on the size of the team and whether you are developing a quick demo or a maintainable system.
SQL Server – SafePeak ‘Logon Trigger’ Feature for Managing Data Access
(Pinal Dave) Lately I received an interesting question about the abilities of SafePeak for SQL Server acceleration software:
Using SQL Server’s Output Clause
(Greg Larsen) When you are inserting, updating, or deleting records from a table, SQL Server keeps track of the records that are changed in two different pseudo tables: INSERTED, and DELETED.
Top 3 Things You Should Learn In SQL 2012
(Thomas Larock) I know three areas of SQL 2012 that have bright future, and learning these three will serve you well for years to come. I am at the MVP Summit this week and I am soaking up as much information about these three items as I possibly can.
RMAN Compression Algorithms in 11gR2
(Mike Dean) One of the many useful features of rman is its ability to create compressed backup sets. Prior to the widespread adoption of rman, most backups would be compressed using OS utilities (gzip, compress, zip, winzip). If you compress rman backup pieces in this manner, then you will need to
My favorite features in MySQL 5.6
(Baron Schwartz) MySQL 5.6 is going to have a lot of improvements. I want to mention a few things I think are uniquely valuable for a large set of typical MySQL users.
ColdFusion 10 – XmlSearch() And XmlTransform() Now Support XPath 2.0
(Ben Nadel) In today’s world, we don’t often work with XML; the majority of data exchange is done using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Even APIs that support both XML and JSON seem to be dropping XML support in their roadmap (I know this from personal experience).