(Norman Walsh) Syntax highlighting source code listings can make them easier to read (it certainly makes them prettier). Pygments is an excellent syntax highlighter. It’s a python tool that can transform source code listings into nice, clean HTML using s and class attributes.
Other News
Moving Beyond Enumerations
(Steven Smith) Enumerations in C# and .NET are value types with a set of related named constants. Using enumerations often results in more readable code, and can help to ensure developers choose appropriate values by limiting possible options to those defined in the enum.
Using the .NET Stopwatch class to Profile Your Code
The Stopwatch class in the System.Diagnostics namespace can be used a as a basic tool to profile blocks of .NET code.
Why upgrade from Visual Source Safe (VSS) to TFS 2010?
(Subodh Sohoni) For the last 15+ years, most organizations doing non-trivial software development have used Visual Source Safe (VSS) for source and version control. On Microsoft platform, it is a very popular SCM. With Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft introduced a much better mechanism for so
Mapping XMLTYPE
(Shaun Smith) A recent posting on the TopLink Forum made it clear that previous descriptions of how to map a JPA entity attribute of type org.w3c.dom.Document to an Oracle database XMLTYPE column didn’t provide enough information for schema (DDL) generation.
Invisible Indexes in Oracle 11g
(Siba Prasad) Always wanted this – the ability to create an index on production without impacting the queries being fired by application but at the same time test the impact an index creation can cause. Invisible indexes are useful alternative to making an index unusable or to drop it.
DB2 for z/OS and SNA: Breaking the Ties that (Used to) Bind
(Robert Catterall) I don’t know if there are any industries in which things change as quickly (and constantly) as they do in the realm of information technology. Just a few years ago, clouds were what produced rain, streams were watercourses, and Ruby on Rails might have been a reference to your aun
Quantified expressions in XQuery: When ‘some’ and ‘every’ satisfy!
(Matthias Nicola) If you are familiar with SQL you have probably seen quantified SQL predicates that compare a single value with a set of values. For example, the following SQL query returns all rows from table1 where col1 is greater than all values in col2 of table2.
User Profile Subsystem in SharePoint Server 2010
(Spencer Harbar) This diagram shows the high level architecture and the various components that make up the User Profile subsystem in SharePoint Server 2010.
A Quick Look at Cloud and SQL Azure
(Pinal Dave) Cloud databases are a hot new idea to the world of computing. Everyone is talking about the “cloud” and how it is going to revolutionize database storage. But what is a cloud database, really?