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(Trenton Moss) AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is an innovative way of using existing technologies to create highly interactive web applications. AJAX allows portions of the page to be updated without having to refresh and reload the entire page. It can increase site performance significant
Password is case sensitive now – Oracle 11g
(Sachin) Good news for people who always wanted oracle schema passwords to be case sensitive.
APAR Friday: A few fixes you might find of interest
(Willie Favero) OK, so what are today’s APAR picks of the week. Well, my impartial selection process came up with 5 APARs that I like for today’s post.
Integration of Altova Tools with IBM DB2 9 pureXML demonstrated via the Online Brokerage Application Scenario
(Irina Kogan, Erin Cavanaugh and Liz Andrews) This paper demonstrates how the deep integration of the graphical Altova tools with DB2 pureXML software can help XML developers, DBAs and end users solve real-life business problems easily and quickly. The examples from the financial industry (the onlin
XSLT Transform in C# (a piece of cake)
(Neil Kilbride) Whilst there are times when I’d rather be rubbing Dorset Naga chillies in my eyes, most days I’m glad I develop in C# on the .Net framework. Take today for example. I needed to look into manipulating XML via XSLT; a powerful transformation language for XML.
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies (Update 2)
(Kingsley Idehen) For all the one-way feed consumers and aggregators, and readers of the original post, here is a variant equipped hyperlinked phrases as opposed to words. As I stated in the prior post, the post (like most of my posts) was part experiment / dog-fodding of automatic tagging and hyper
Extension Methods
(Jim Mischel) Extension methods allow you to add functionality to a class or interface without modifying the class or interface or creating a new derived type. An extension method is a special kind of static method that can be called as though it were an instance method on the extended type. In C# a
CodeSnip: How to Update Records of a Table in Oracle Using Where Exists Clause
(Deepankar Sarangi) Usually there are situations where we may be required to update those records of a table, which are found equal in some other table. But simply doing an update on the target table will cause the non-matching records updated to null. Here the use of “where exists” clause can avoid
Introducing Visual Studio .NET 2008 – Top 10 Features
(Mark Smith) After a long beta period Microsoft pushed Visual Studio .NET 2008 (code named “Orcas”) out to MSDN in November – keeping their promise to deliver it by the end of the year. DevelopMentor has been using Orcas in many of our .NET classes for a while now and I for one, am pretty excited th