(Catherine) Thanks to the great audiences at my HTSQL talks at Ohio Linuxfest and Dayton IEEE! (And to the folks who will come see me at Columbus Code Camp on Saturday.) I’ve promised you answers to some of your questions that stumped me, and (for OLF people) been criminally slow at getting them to
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The Challenge of Building the Semantic Web
(Vuk Milièiæ) The Semantic Web is often described as an extension of the current Web. The idea of what extending the Web should look like can be seen in Linked Data.
How to Convert XML to a JSON-Like JavaScript Object
(Kayawlels) In my post How to Create an XML to JSON Proxy Server in PHP we created a system which translated XML messages into Ajax-ready JSON. That’s great if you’re running PHP or another suitable server-side process. But what if you’re limited to JavaScript only?Randomly accessing data from an XM
Rectangular Selection
(Petr) If you use development build, you probably noticed that NetBeans editor added Rectangular Selection action. I don’t need this functionality every day, but it can be helpful in some case. One of such case is when you need to delete line numbers in a text or code copied from a tutorial. Like
Updates in Entity Framework
(Peter Vogel) Having just done a column on how LINQ + Entity Framework (EF) makes typical database activities in business applications, I realized that I’d concentrated entirely on retrieving data and ignored doing updates. There’s a reason for that: LINQ doesn’t do updates. Updates are the responsi
Rows and Columns Merging in ASP.NET GridView Control
(Brij Mohan) Its been a long time I have written any article on ASP.NET. Just few weeks back I got a very interesting requirement where I had to customize my GridView by Grouping the Columns and also merging the Rows by using Colspan properties.
The impact of ASSM on Clustering of data — 2
(Hemant K Chitale) Revisiting my earlier test on the same topic, I add a change to “slow” down the operations. The fetching of sequence values with the default cache was so fast in the earlier test, that the three sessions that I manually invoked to execute concurrently did not show a real distribut
Create and parse XML on the Android 3.0 platform
(Deepak Vohra) Android, the most commonly used smartphone platform, also functions on mobile tablets. XML is the standard medium of data exchange. You can use the same builder, parser, and transformer APIs for standard XML parsing and transformation and for Android. With the javax.xml.parsers.Docume
SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model, Part 1
(Mark Nischalke) In previous versions of SharePoint when it was necessary to access ListItems or other objects from within a SharePoint environment the only choice available was to use the server object model, perhaps from the code behind in a webpart or application page, or in a Service running on
Nasty Regression Bug: SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) crashes InnoDB when WHERE operand is in Primary Key or Unique Index
(Chris Calender) In 5.5, a crashing, regression bug exists if you use SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) *and* one of the WHERE operands is in the Primary Key (or just a unique index).