(Bill Ray) Web-standards group the W3C has published its preferred standard for compressing XML documents into something more suitable for transmission over radio, and perhaps everywhere else too.
Other News
Multi-browser heap address leak in XSLT
(Chris Evans) It’s not often that I find a bug that affects multiple different codebases in the same way, but here is an interesting info-leak bug that is currently unpatched in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari.
Naturally Increasing Data Value with Hierarchical Structures
(Michael M David) Hierarchical structures have an inherent ability for significant data value increases beyond the data collected. This will be shown to exist in hierarchical structures and even more powerfully in their natural hierarchical processing capabilities.
.NET Framework: Task Parallel Library Dataflow
(Jeffrey Juday) Coupled to the new C# Async Community Technology Preview released during PDC 2010; is a library called Task Parallel Library Dataflow (TDF). TDF is part of a growing list of technologies built on top of the Task Parallel Library (TPL) that are part of Microsoft’s Technical Computing
Tracking database changes (Part I): Plain audit
(Oleg Smirnov) For any serious application working with a database is often necessary to consider a tracking changes system. Each solves this problem in its own way, but honestly I’m surprised how a few modern ORMs can offer us for it. Let’s look at this situation more closer.
‘Fatal Execution Engine Error’ when you try to obtain the security descriptor of a generic class from a native image module in a .NET Framework environment
When you try to obtain the security descriptor of a generic class from a native image (Ngen.exe) module in a Microsoft .NET Framework environment, you receive a “Fatal Execution Engine Error” error message.
How to debug long-running transactions in MySQL
(Baron Schwartz) Among the many things that can cause a “server stall” is a long-running transaction. If a transaction remains open for a very long time without committing, and has modified data, then other transactions could block and fail with a lock wait timeout.
IBM to provide free training on analytics, information management and big data
(Adam Gartenberg) IBM announced yesterday the launch of a new skills initiative to help students, businesses and IBM Business Partners improve their ability to apply IBM analytics, information management and big data technology.
The DB2Night Show #45: DB2’S GOT TALENT! Top 7 Seek YOUR Votes!
(Scott Hayes) This was another great show for learning DB2 tips and techniques! Our contestants focused on DB2 commands: db2move, db2look, db2top, z/OS report utility, db2dart, and db2caem!
How to Enable Create Operation Security Check for ADF BC
(Andrejus Baranovskis) Out of the box in ADF BC, we don’t have control over create operation security. In order to prevent unauthorized create operations, we need to define update operation security permissions, this will disable input fields for newly created record – user will not be able to inser