(Daniel Ehrenberg) I started writing Factor’s XML parser thinking that its purpose was to interface with legacy protocols which made the mistake of choosing XML, and that the people at the W3C were a bunch of idiots for pushing such a bad, unoriginal format on innocent programmers who would do bette
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Loading XML into Flash CS3 ActionScript 3
(Dan Zen) The Falcon class lets you load XML into Flash in Three easy steps. (See Examples for other things Falcon can do). –Make a Falcon object and tell it the URL of your XML and specify that the data is XML_DATA –Set an addEventListener to capture Event.COMPLETE to run a function when loa
How to Write a Provider Model
(Keyvan Nayyeri) After the birth of .NET 2.0, the provider model became common in .NET development. Most built-in features that deal with data support providers. Many third party applications, components and libraries are using data providers, too. In my opinion talking about data providers in .NET
Aggregate RSS and Atom information using XQuery
(Martin Brown) XQuery makes it much easier to merge and filter information from XML documents when you embed the filtering instructions right into the document that you use to generate the output format. You can use that functionality to aggregate information from RSS and Atom feeds into the format
DB2 9.5 and IBM Data Studio: Building an SQL Statement
(Paul Zikopoulos) So far in this series about the IBM Data Studio integrated development environment (IDE) that’s available with DB2 Version 9.5 (DB2 9.5), I’ve shown you how to set up database connection objects and the actions that you can perform on them. In addition, I introduced you (in Part 2)
DB2 History 101: Version 2.1
(Willie Favero) This is the first new version of DB2 delivered since its initial release. It was announced in April, 1988 and went generally available (GA) in September, 1988.
LINQ to SQL: returning multiple result sets
(Ken Casada) As you probably know LINQ to SQL supports stored procedure (SP). You can drag&drop a SP in the LINQ to SQL Designer and the magic happens: a new method inside the DataContext class is generated and a new return type is defined by the designer to represent this result (the name of the ty
Practicing Block Recovery in Oracle Database
(Asif Momen) During backup and recovery practice sessions, we often struggle to perform block recovery scenario. This is because we find it difficult to corrupt an Oracle block.
Apply IronRuby to Get Started Building Next-Generation UIs
(Paul Ferrill) Getting popular open source software (OSS) languages running on Microsoft .NET started when Microsoft adapted Python, creating the .NET version called IronPython. The latest OSS project to get the Microsoft treatment is IronRuby, which is part of a new Microsoft focus on dynamic langu
MySQL Information Schema Plugins: the best kept secret of MySQL 5.1
(Roland Bouman) MySQL 5.1 offers an extremely useful feature called information_schema plugins. This feature allows dynamic runtime loading of a shared library into the MySQL server to implement a table in the information_schema database. The SQL standard (ISO/IEC 9075-11:2003) allows database imple