(M.Varone) In economic times like these, a company’s ability to identify the right areas for investment is more important than ever before. This is especially the case when it comes to software investments, which are most often used to reduce costs or to gain competitive advantage over the competiti
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How to insert relational data into existing XML documents (Part 2)
(Matthias Nicola) In my previous blog post I promised that I would provide some examples of how to insert information from multiple relational tables and multiple rows into an XML document.
Investigate current XML tools
(Gowri Shankar Palani) XML is used in many areas ranging from e-commerce and news feeds to search engines. Some of the technologies associated with XML include XSLT, XPath, and XPointer. Increased use of XML emphasizes the need to be aware of its tools and the functionalities that they provide. XML
Obfuscation of Your .NET Application Code
(Memphisto) Developers find themselves in a situation in which they have to secure code through Obfuscation — a term that is defined as “technique to complicate code so that they are hard to be reverse-engineered”. Although .Net assemblies are the easiest to be hacked, on a lighter note, someone al
Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery – Part 1
(Scott Hanselman) There are several books worth of information to be said about Internationalization (i18n) out there, so I can’t solve it all in a blog post. Even 9 pages of blog posts. I like to call it Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn, actually.
How to Start Unit Testing .NET Projects
(Gil Zilberfeld) The first tool you need is a testing framework. You have a couple of choices there. If you are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional or above, you already have the Microsoft unit testing framework installed. The framework comes also with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team S
Finding and killing long running InnoDB transactions with Events
(Mark Leith) I’ve seen a number of solutions for finding long running transactions or sessions within InnoDB / MySQL now. Every single one of them has (in the past by necessity) been implemented as a script (other than one, more on that one later) that is either invoked manually, or via some cron jo
DB2 pureScale Availability – Part 1
(Chris Eaton) In my previous postings on pureScale I have covered the scalability features and advantages that come as a result of the central caching facility (CF). This is something that DB2 for z/OS data sharing customers are already well aware of. If you missed that series of blog postings you
A Workaround for LOADDONE in Q Replication
(Frank Fillmore) Here is another technique to use only when standard practices won’t work. Let’s say you are performing a manual load in Q Replication (either InfoSphere Replication Server or DB2 Homogeneous Replication Feature).
Understanding ADF BC View Object Instances
(Andrejus Baranovskis) Its quite easy topic, but sometimes is confusing, especially for ADF newbies. I will try to explain today, how View Object instance works and what you should know when using the same View Object instance across different ADF task flows.