(Jeff Wharton) Ever been in the situation where you’re so fixated on debugging an error that you fail to see the solution which has been staring you in the face the whole time? Me too.
Other News
Securing the MySQL Root Account
(Rob Gravelle) MySQL’s enormous popularity is a double-edged sword for the people who depend on it. On one hand, it’s not liable to become outdated any time soon. On the other, the world’s favorite open source DBMS has made itself a target of hackers who desire to steal its precious data, or just d
XSLT 2.0 in .NET
(Akram El Assas) The .NET Framework provides XslCompiledTransform which is an XSLT processor 1.0. However this doesn’t mean that we can’t work with XSLT 2.0 in .NET. This article is for folks who want to use XSLT 2.0 in .NET.
DB2 Tech Talk – Solving Complex Data Warehousing Problems
(Susan Visser) Join Serge Rielau and Jon Lind for the next DB2 Tech Talk (formerly known as Chat with the Lab) on Thursday Feb 23 at 12:30 pm ET. The topic: Solving Complex Data Warehousing Problems with Advanced Tooling of InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Editions
Using the BindingSource Class in ADO.NET
(Alok Pandey) The BindingSource class is used to simplify data binding as well as various operations on records. It has different methods like AddNew( ), MoveFirst( ), MovePrevious( ), MoveNext( ), etc which provide easier way for adding new row, moving to first record, moving to previous record, mo
An alternate Web
For the uninitiated, the idea of a ‘Semantic Web’ involves computers being “capable of analysing all the data on the Web – the content, links, transactions between people and computers.”
CURSOR_SHARING FORCE and Child Cursors
(Hemant K Chitale) A demonstration of how a “simple” SQL statement can have multiple child cursors.
Unit Testing ASP.Net Http Handlers and a discussion of Auto Mocking and the Testable pattern
(Matt Wrock) This post was originally entitled Unit Testing ASP.Net Http Handlers and my intent was a quickie (5 minute) post on overriding ProcessRequest in a test friendly manner. Then, struck by diarrhea of the fingers, I found myself going off on unit testing practices and discussing a pattern I
Some pt-table-checksum FAQs
(Baron Schwartz) After the recent update to pt-table-checksum, I’ve seen a few FAQs about it.
jQuery and SharePoint 2010: the Basics
(bentedder) SharePoint out-of-the-box is functional, but fairly lacking when it comes to really wanting to extract and beautify your data. This is where jQuery comes in. It’s light, easy to implement, and actually hooks up with a bunch of SharePoint services when you have the right plugins. Consider