(Louis Mau and Rajesh Kartha) IBM Mashup Center comes with widgets for displaying data in different formats, such as in a table, on a map, or in a chart. These widgets allow for very quick page assembly, but typically only provide a limited set of customization abilities, including font size, alignm
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Building a realtime Feed with RabbitMQ Node.js AMQP and mySQL
(Dathan Vance Pattishall) Being a backend programmer, I rarely code in JavaScript. Today I code a lot of cross browser JavaScript with the fantastic lib jquery and its various extensions. Front end programming is hard to get correct since IE sucks but that’s another Blog post that is out of scope.
Creating a SOLID Visual Studio Solution
(Steven Smith) The SOLID acronym describes five object-oriented design principles that, when followed, produce code that is cleaner and more maintainable. The last principle, the Dependency Inversion Principle, suggests that details depend upon abstractions. Unfortunately, typical project relationsh
Special guest Susan Lawson, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant, YL&A
(Scott Hayes) In episode #Z06, special guest Susan Lawson, an IBM DB2 Gold Consultant and Owner Yevich Lawson & Associates, shared with us information about new tablespaces in DB2 z/OS V10, options, considerations, and some best practices.
.NET Framework Task Parallel Library and the Active Objects Pattern
(Jeffrey Juday) Hiding an asynchronous or parallel process behind a seemingly simple synchronous method call is common practice for a developer trying to simplify an object’s usability. Task Parallel Library (TPL) is a good choice for the Parallel Computing data structures often required for such a
Application Programming Tip: Let DB2 do the Work for You
(Robert Catterall) Back in the 1980s, when DB2 was relatively new, you had, of course, a lot of application developers who were learning how to program using SQL (IBM invented the relational database and Structured Query Language).
Producing simple Pie Chart straight out of the Oracle Database – leveraging dbms_epg, CANVAS, LISTAGG and some JavaScript
(Lucas Jellema) Once upon a time, I had something of a reputation for creating Charts in SQL. Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Gantt Charts and several other unlikely chart types, all created with SQL.
Inequality and NULL
(Hemant K Chitale) A response recent forums question about handling an inequality condition also reminded me, once again, about NULL handling in Oracle.
Setup Oracle Access Manager 10g in Disaster Recovery
(Mahendra) This post talks about general concepts of Disaster Recovery for Oracle Access Manager 10g. Disaster Recovery is highly essential for any of the organizations to have system up and running always and to have zero business downtime.
Parsing XML file in VB.NET using DOM
(Sergey Chepurin) There are many versions of XML parsers/readers on the Internet and on CodeProject (including my own in C/C++). This one was written several years ago in VB 6.0 and is based on DOM (Document Object Model). I almost forgot about it until I recently decided to upgrade (or to see if it