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ASP.NET MVC 4 Overview – Part 1: Installing ASP.NET MVC 4 and creating a new project
(Jon Galloway) I’m starting a series going through some new features in ASP.NET MVC 4. I may accidentally build a working application along the way, for some value of working. Probably not, though. The main goal is to overview what’s in ASP.NET MVC 4.
The Semantic Web is Dead? Hardly!
(Eric Franzon) Richard Padley, the Managing Director of Semantico, posted this week that the Semantic Web is dead.
R12 Features > Proxy User
(Sanjit Anand) There is “Proxy User” functionality you have in R12. Proxy User allows a user to specify a proxy who can act on their behalf.
How to get an extended SQL (event 10046) or CBO (event 10053) trace file with a click of a button?
(Marcus Mönnig) It’s often a chore to generate and fetch trace files. You usually have to enable the trace, run your SQL, then go to the DB server’s file system, locate the correct trace file and then find the relevant portion in that trace file.
Web Page Validation using JQuery in ASP.NET
(Sourabh Sharma) jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks that have powerful tools for developers to improves the designs integration with web sites and applications. We have discussed earlier about the website Validation.
Flash Builder for PHP Offers Common Code Base for Dissimilar Mobile Platforms
(Chris Smith) If you’ve been waiting to figure out a strategy to handle native mobile applications, then your wait may have paid off. A new tool developed by Zend and Adobe that is built on Eclipse and leverages both PHP and Flash technologies may be the light out of the darkness.
Simplifying a Multi-Threaded Application
(Jim Mischel) I have a search application, exposed as a Web service using HttpListener, that can take several seconds to return results. Because searching is expensive, I created a simple most-recently-used (MRU) cache that holds the results of the last N searches, so if an identical request comes i
Yes, the Rule-Based Optimizer still lives in Oracle Database 11g
(Iggy Fernandez) “Under the patronage of Charles II. was established the Royal Society. The king sent one day to the learned body for an explanation of the following remarkable phenomenon: “When a live fish is thrown into a basin of water, the basin, water, and fish do not weigh more than the basin
SQL Server: Working with Dynamic Management Objects
(Glenn Berry, Louis Davidson and Tim Ford) Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs) are a set of SQL Server objects stored in the system schema. They provide you with a window into the activities being performed on your various SQL Server instances, and the resources that these activities are consuming.