(Peter Vogel) Sometimes different users need different UIs, or different sites where your application is installed need different UIs. You could add a bunch of logic that makes controls visible or invisible as needed (and best of luck testing that).
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Big Data – A Microsoft Tools Approach
(Buck Woody) I don’t normally like to discuss things in terms of tools. I find that whenever you start with a given tool (or even a tool stack) it’s too easy to fit the problem to the tool(s), rather than the other way around as it should be.
ColdFusion 10 Beta – Closures And Function Expressions
(Ben Nadel) For the last year or so, people have been very curious about the idea of adding Closures to ColdFusion 10 – code name, Zeus. Some of these people are excited about the power of closures; others are confused as to what a closure is and how a closure can even add value to the ColdFusion wo
Scripting for DB2 LUW – Best Practices for Perl and Other Languages – Part 3
(Ember Crooks) This is my own set of basic scripting standards and practices. I’d love to hear criticisms, suggestions and comments from readers on these. Some of these would be basic “duh” moments for a developer, but for a DBA from a different background, may be more enlightening. This ended up be
Security and deployment best practices for InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP applications, Part 2: Deployment
(Christian Gaege, Martin Oberhofer and Nicole Schoen) Part 2 in this article series discusses how to effectively manage the different components required by IBM InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP applications, and how to distribute them across the SAP and Information Server landscape.
Can we improve MySQL variable handling ?
(Peter Zaitsev) MySQL Settings (also known as Server Variables) have interesting property. When you set variable in running server this change is not persisted in any way and server will be back to old value upon restart.
A Software Developer’s Guide to HTTP Part III–Connections
(Scott) In part II of this series we looked at HTTP messages. We saw examples of the text commands and codes that flow from the client to the server and back in an HTTP transaction. But how does the information in these messages move through the network? When are the network connections opened? Whe
Click/select Row in ASP.NET GridView or HTML Table
(DrABELL) The suggested technique applies to ASP.NET GridView objects, and essentially to any HTML Table tr elements. First, it makes the entire GridView row object (rendered as “tr” element) “clickable” by adding the “onclick” event (see Listing 1 coded in C#).
XML Read & Update Operations
(Ghanashyam Nayak) Using this article you can learn how to read each XML node value & how to update that value in the original XML file…
Backups and Transaction Logs
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