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Comet: Reverse Ajax for streaming data from the server
(Daniel Rubio) Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, has become a household name in the area of Web applications, this mechanism by which a browser accesses a RESTful Web service and updates its GUI without a screen refresh, has spread from its pioneering roots in on-line maps and calendars to p
Why Use XSLT in Server Side Web Frameworks For Output Generation?
(Anup Shah) In a previous post, I worried about some web frameworks that abstract away the creation of markup, thus preventing (or making it more difficult for) web developers to create what they need — the leaky abstraction.
XML to CSV solutions
(Mark Gibbs) Things may come and things may go, but the need to convert data formats will go on forever. That, young Jedi, is one of the eternal verities and, lest you think the conversion nut has been cracked, just consider the volume of responses I received when I mentioned my own reformatting que
DB2 Workload Manager for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
(Whei-Jen Chen, Bill Comeau, H T Morgan, Larry Pay, Marcia Miskimen, S Sadish Kumar, Tapio Väättänen and Tomoko Ichikawa) DB2 Workload Manager (WLM) introduces a significant evolution in the capabilities available to database administrators for controlling and monitoring executing work within DB
CallableStatement handling using named parameters
(Akhilesh K. Tiwary and Thamizhchelvan A. Anbalagan) Explore a powerful new feature of IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) called “named parameters in a CallableStatement,” which enables you to identify a parameter using its name instead of its ordinal position. This feature thus extends the capabilit
Persisting Selection in ASP.NET Grid Controls While Paging
(Mike Pope) I only recently ran across this, and it surprised me: when you use a grid control (DataGrid, GridView, and now even ListView) that supports both selection and paging, selection is persisted incorrectly as you navigate between grid pages.
DSN1CHKR: Checking your catalog’s health
(Willie Favero) A friend dropped me an e-mail the other day, right after I posted about down level page detection, suggesting that I say something about DSN1CHKR. I thought that was a great idea. At one point in time, this was one of my favorite stand-alone utilities. At that same pointing time, I w