(Beate Porst) This article presents a solution showing how IBM Initiate Master Data Service (MDS) metadata can be integrated and leveraged within IBM InfoSphere Information Server.
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Capture and Store Database Integrity History using DBCC CHECKDB
(Robert Pearl) We’ve all used the command DBCC CHECKDB from time to time in our DBA careers to verify database integrity and repair corrupt databases. The latest version of this command checks the logical and physical integrity of all objects in the specified database by performing the following op
An Ode to Testers
New Video Program Posted – Watch free now SelecTViews: A pet peeve – what is up with the silence about the massive cloud data breach??? Also on the show today – Michael Crump and some great applications for Silverlight. [Watch the Show] More Testing Stories Let’s finish out this week with an acknowledgement of praise to our worthy testers. Every […]
SelecTViews: A pet peeve – what is up with the silence about the massive cloud data breach???
Video Programming for IT Professionals
A Tester’s War Story
.Net on the Android I have seen forum questions regarding the ability to code for smart phones in .Net. Up until now only the Windows Phone supported .Net applications. I have done some phone app programming for the Motorola phones using Eclipse and the Motorola SDKs. I remember the learning curve being a little steep because of the difference in […]
What You Need to Know about LINQ
(Peter Vogel) One of the technologies that developers would be well advised to adopt is Language Integrated Query (LINQ). Not only does LINQ reduce the amount of code you have to write, it also gives you better performance and positions you for other technologies (like Parallel LINQ, or PLINQ, paral
The Many Tools of XML: XSLT, XPath, and More!
(Michael Marr) I recently ran across an interesting question on stackoverflow. In summary, a novice developer hads been learning XML and XML related technologies, such as XPath, XSLT, Xquery, Schemas, etc.
HTML5 and The Semantic Web
(BryanHalfpap) Since HTML5’s uptake in mainstream browsers, there’s been a lot of talk about the next version of the web, web 3.0 (even though Tim Berners-Lee dislikes that term).
Installing Orchard Content Management System
(Steven Smith) Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused content management system built on the ASP.NET platform. It uses ASP.NET MVC 3, the Razor view engine, and is an Outercurve Foundation project. In this article, we’ll look at how to get started with Orchard 1.0 by installing it.
Adding A Splice() Method To The Javascript String Prototype
(Ben Nadel) In my blog post yesterday on using slice(), substring(), and substr() in Javascript to perform substring extraction, Andy Matthews and I got into a brief discussion about how in many languages, at a core level, strings are nothing more than arrays of characters.