(Andy Oram) I spent yesterday at the XML 2007 conference in Boston. It’s smaller than last year’s conference, which is a shame because I liked the sessions I attended better than last year’s. The knowledge and skills of the attendees as well as the presenters seemed impressive. Here are a few musing
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Ajax and XML: Ajax for chat
(Jack D Herrington) Learn to build a chat system into your Web application with Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) and PHP. Your customers can talk to you and to each other about the content of the site without having to download or install any special instant-messaging software.
Extending the DropDownList to Support Enums
(Steven Smith) A fairly common task in some of the applications I work with is to provide a user with a DropDownList of options that is populated by an enum. This can easily be done with a little bit of code to bind a stock DropDownList control to the enum, but this kind of thing quickly starts to
Taking Advantage of DB2 9 Takes Little Effort
(Troy Coleman) I’ve been traveling around the country talking to people about the great benefits of upgrading to DB2 9. My presentation with Roger Miller–“Top 10 Reasons To Deploy DB2 9 For z/OS Now!”– offers more details than I have room for here.
Using Delegates to Interchange Information Between Siblings of a Parent Form
(Mehedi Shams) This is the Parent Form. This is a container of the two child forms that you will create later.
A Better IBM Federation Server with the DB2 9 Fix Packs
(Vincent McBurney) The IBM Federation Server can run on the Information Server or standalone – either way it can benefit from the latest DB2 fix packs with some Federation and Wrapper fixes.
ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing
(Scott Guthrie) In today’s blog post I’m going to drill deeper into the routing architecture of the ASP.NET MVC Framework, and discuss some of the cool ways you can use it for more advanced scenarios in your application.
Oracle 11G – Virtual Columns (Dates)
(Patch) A couple of days ago there was a question (in Dutch) on the utPLSQL forum about filling up a table with a lot of dates and some info about those dates, like the weeknumber, the dayname etc. I created code using persistent columns at first, so the code would run on a pre-11G installation, but
Access IBM U2 data server from your .NET applications, Part 1: Overview of IBM Data Server Provider for .NET and IBM Database Add-ins for Visual Studio for UniVerse and UniData
(Rajan Kumar and Brent Gross) IBM Data Server Provider for .NET and IBM Database Add-ins for Visual Studio support multiple IBM data servers, including DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, and the IBM U2 data servers, UniVerse, and UniData. This article is the first of a series of articles and tutorials th
Configuring SQL Developer for MySQL
(Rex Baldazo) I rant against Oracle products a lot in this blog, but I have to admit there’s a few of their products I do actually like. One of them is SQL Developer. Strangely though, the feature I kinda like best is that SQL Developer can connect to non-Oracle databases like MySQL. Which makes it