(Ben Nadel) Over the new year’s holiday weekend, I read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski. In the book, Wroblewski talks about leveraging the contraints of mobile development in order to think more holistically and effectively about your users and your software.
Other News
APEX: Friendlier exception message from AJAX call
(Alex Nuijten) While it is very easy to create a “Form and a Report” on a single table (or view), just follow the wizard, for end users it is not always intuitive that they should navigate to the form page to remove the record.
The Case For SharePoint Plus Silverlight
(David F. Carr) The authors of SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight talk about why the two Microsoft technologies are more powerful together.
Save Temporary Data with Entity Framework Self-Tracking Entity
(Henry He) In this article, I will show you how to use Entity Framework Self-Tracking Entity to save temporary data in Enterprise Application.
AlwaysOn: Impact of mapping reporting workload on Readable Secondary to Snapshot Isolation
(Sunil Agarwal) In my previous blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2011/12/22/alwayson-minimizing-blocking-of-redo-thread-when-running-reporting-workload-on-secondary-replica.aspx, I described how Readable Secondary eliminates potential REDO thread blocking for DML work runni
Working With PHP XML Expat Parser And XML DOM
(Mike Steward) In this article we are going to understand the concept of PHP Expat parser & XML DOM. First of all we need to know about XML. XML is used to describe data and to focus on what data is. An XML file describes the structure of the data. There are only user defined tags in XML.
SQL Developer Quick Tip: BLOBs and Images
(Jeff Smith) Binary Large Objects – otherwise known as BLOBs. You’ve also got large objects which are composed of text – that would be a CLOB. If you hear people talk about LOB storage, they are referring to how the data in these fields are stored – outside the space reserved for the regular segment
DB2 9.5 installation notes
(Jack Vamvas) IBM DB2 documentation is very comprehensive. But I still like create and maintain my own documentationscripts for repeatable tasks. Installing DB2 should be an efficient process , customised to a particular environment.
A 3-way join that touches only indexes
(Igor) Can an execution of 3-way join use only indexes and not touch table rows at all? If we have MyISAM tables it’s just impossible. Yet with InnoDB tables it would be possible if we could exploit so called extended keys – the regular secondary keys extended by the components of the primary key.
Attaching Continuation Tasks to the UI Thread
Parallel tasks can be used in Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation applications to run slow processes without blocking the user interface thread. However, this presents a problem, as both systems prevent other threads from updating controls.