(Frank Nimphius) ADF Faces provides the af:validateDateTimeRange tag in the Operations category of the Component Palette for applications to enforce valid date and time ranges.
Other News
You Can Give Your Green-Screen Application New Functionality with Presto 3
(Chris Smith) We’ve all heard the apothegmatic description of screen-scraping programs as doing little more than putting lipstick on a pig, but today’s Web-enabling tools are going far beyond just dressing up an unattractive legacy program.
Porting The ColdFusion Application.cfc Framework Component Over To Node.js
(Ben Nadel) Node.js has been a really fun and challenging programming environment for me to try and wrap my head around. To keep the experiment going, I thought I would try to port some of the ColdFusion Application Framework concepts – Application.cfc – over to a Node.js application.
ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update
(Scott Guthrie) Three weeks ago we held our MIX 2011 conference in Las Vegas. MIX is one of my favorite events of the year, and the conference always has a ton of great content and announcements. All of the keynotes and breakout sessions from the event can be watched online for free here. I’ll be
IBM Cognos Proven Practices: The IBM Cognos 10 Dynamic Query Cookbook
(Daniel Wagemann, Pierre Valiquette, Armin Kamal, Ken Tanaka, Wassim Hassouneh and Joachim Limburg) This document is intended to provide a single point of reference for techniques and product behaviours when dealing with the Dynamic Query Mode delivered with IBM Cognos 10.
Constructors in C#
(Mayur Gujrathi) A constructor is a special method available under every class responsible for initializing variables of the class.
Dismantling a SQL Server Cluster After a P2V (Physical to Virtual) Migration
(Scott Shaw) Our organization has decided to no longer use Windows Clustering and instead rely on the hardware redundancy inherent in a virtual environment. My problem is that I have numerous SQL Server clusters. How should I handle these clusters during the virtualization process?
Where Do We Put Business Rules?
Where Do We Put Business Rules? I received a number of replies regarding this question. Frankly, I’m surprised with the consistency of the responses. The overwhelming response to this point has been, “Put your business logic in the database.” Primarily, the recommendations are to put the logic into Referential Integrity, metadata enforced by stored procedures, or logic in the stored […]
Where Do Business Rules Belong?
Where Do Business Rules Belong? I received a response to a reader’s comments from yesterdays Editorial. The original reader felt that implementing business rules in a database through the use of stored procedures and/or triggers was a bad thing. The server could not scale. Today our comment comes from Jeffrey. Jeffrey points out operational and deployment benefits of maintaining rules […]
More on DMV changes in SQL 2008 R2 SP1
Following our last post by Mehmet about new support and troubleshooting DMV’s, here are additional details on supportability DMV changes in SQL 2008 R2 SP1 and how you might use them. These changes are also available in “Denali”, the upcoming major release of SQL Server. With SQL 2008 R2 SP1 coming