(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) Back end processing — server-side scripts and programs — can’t always be tossed into an Ajax application and behave well. Instead, careful planning to ensure data is sent in an appropriate and efficient form ensures your entire application is cohesive, rather than needless
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Compiling MySQL 5.0.51 under Ubuntu 7.10
(Ronald Bradford) I’ve finally decided to work on a number of improvements in Instrumentation within the MySQL Server I’ve wanted for the first year, See What is the optimal thread specific buffer size?. It’s been a while since I’ve compiled from source, and from these issues, the first under Ubuntu
Light reading for XML with Groovy
(Pan Pantziarka) Groovy, unlike Java, provides a relatively streamlined way to read and write XML documents. In the first part of my two-piece tutorial, I looked at how you can use Groovy’s flexible strings, closures and iterators to quickly create XML fragments and files.
Database jobs & Oracle Active Session History
(Jason Arneil) A few days ago I found myself investigating a session that had become blocked during the middle of the night. This session happened to belong to a critical application so caused an on call engineer to be paged, but by the time they looked the session had become unblocked and the appli
IBM FileNet P8 BPM XPDL 2.0 extensions
(Darik Siegfried and Mike Marin) The IBM FileNet P8 Business Process Management (BPM) product uses the XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) V2.0 as a file format to store processes. XPDL is a standard process definition file format developed by the Workflow Management Coalition (www.wfmc.org) and
Two Common Pitfalls When Submitting a Web Form Using the Enter Key
(Scott Mitchell) When filling out a form on a web page you have probably experienced the fact that if you hit enter when typing in a single-line textbox the form is submitted. This is a feature that browsers provide to make it possible to submit a form without having to touch the mouse. For example,
DropDownList Dependencies Using Client Callbacks
(AzamSharp) In the last article Client Callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0 I introduced the concept of remote scripting in ASP.NET 2.0. This article takes one step further and set up a real world problem and solves that problem by using Client Callbacks. This article focus on DropDownList dependencies. Conside
.NET Framework goes multicore
(Jack Vaughan) Even people with hot rod hearts hardly lift the lid on their engines anymore. There is not much in the modern car on which they can work. The same has become true in software engineering. (R)
ASP.NET Performance Tips
(Adiseshu Dasari) I am going to present some of best approaches to improve the performance of ASP.NET applications. You should think about the separation of your application into logical tiers. You might have heard of the term 3-tier (or n-tier) physical architecture. These are usually prescribe
SQL Server 2008 Spatial – Performance of database calls?
(Simon Sabin) There are 4 ways of holding spatial data, Well Known Text (WKT), Well Known Binary (WKB), Geography Markup Language and the base spatial type (SqlGeometry or SqlGeometry).