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.NET Survival Guide: Web and RIA Development
(Peter Vogel) Microsoft’s latest announcements make it clear that, when it comes to delivering applications over the Web, the choices for the .NET developer are ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. Silverlight may have a future in mobile development, but it’s no longer a primary platform for the Web.
XSLT in Umbraco
(Sujith PV) We have already described the content delivery model in Umbraco in my earlier post. So now let’s see how XSLT is used to created html out of the generated Umbraco XML content. In Umbraco the XML is generated based on the Document type alias and properties type alias.
Implementing a JAX-WS Web Service Accessing its Input as XML Source
(Jakub Holý) Sometimes you may want to create a JAX-WS webservice with its input defined by a proper, structured XSD yet accessing the input as raw XML object and not as POJOs produced by JAXB, similarly as with a JAX-RPC webservice having input of the type SOAPElement.
From child elements to attributes
(Manolo) Still working on XSLT with Saxon, here we’ll have a look at the xsl:copy element that copies just a bare node from the input xml to the resulting file, without considering descendant node or attribute, if any.
Action Framework – Location Aliases
(Christian Screen) One of my favorite aspects of OBIEE 11g is the Action Framework and how it opens up new navigational features that its predecessor lacked in a big way. This is my first post on the new OBI 11g Action Framework and I am sure there will be several more though I haven’t planned out
ANSI Full Outer Join, Ready or Not?
(Charles Hooper) When I read pages 101-103 of the book “Pro Oracle SQL” a couple of days ago, I was reminded of a couple of things. This section of the book describes full outer joins, showing the ANSI syntax and Oracle syntax to perform a full outer join. If you read my earlier blog article on th
Translating and more with Google API’s
(Rob van Wijk) Google has a lot of API’s that you can use in SQL and PL/SQL as well. A couple of months ago I saw a very nice example on OTN here. It was an example of how to use Google’s Translate API. Here is how to do it yourself.
IBM Cognos Proven Practices: Block Publishing Packages to an IBM Cognos 8 Environment
This technique prevents Framework Manager from publishing packages to a given IBM Cognos 8 environment by leveraging a Servlet Filter. This file contains a document next to binaries implementing the technique.