(Kristopher William Zyp) The Persevere persistent object framework brings persistent object mapping to the browser JavaScript environment. Object persistence has seen great popularity in the Java programming and Ruby worlds, and the dynamic JavaScript language is naturally well suited to mapping obj
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SEC Readies XBRLTagging Rules for Financial Filings
(Roy Mark) U.S. businesses could be required to file financial reports formatted in XBRL, top Securities and Exchange Commission officials said.
Resetting Scroll Position When Using MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback
(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 2.0 added a number of built-in client-side enhancements that were missing from earlier versions. Many of these new features were detailed in an earlier article here on 4Guys, Client-Side Enhancements in ASP.NET 2.0. One of the least undocumented yet most helpful client-side
New Features in TFS 2008
(Jeff Levinson) The list of new and enhanced features in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 is quite extensive. I’ll start diving into the details of these new features in future columns. In the meantime, this column will focus on some of the new features of Version Control, specifically, Annotate, F
Overcoming Limited Database Priviledges (Using A Fake Staging DB)
(George P. Alexander Jr.) In my last post (that was a long time ago…was travelling a lot), I had mentioned about common scenario where we developers have made nice looking stored procedures which in real time, would be required to run against fairly large volumes of data or the scenario where it w
MERGE command enhancements in Oracle 10g
We had covered the MERGE command in Oracle before in our blog post. This is also a feature that will be present in SQL Server 2008. You can search this site togo over the other new feature sets that are being introduced in SQL Server 2008 (search for SQL Server 2008 on this blog site for getting to
Page and User Control Communication
(Brian Mains) This article shows how the page and user controls within the page can communicate together with a little more work. It shows how the use of interfaces or custom page classes can make the application more efficient and reduce code.
Multi-dimensional vs. aggregate awareness
(Jag Singh) The star schemas along with aggregates support the full scope of the data warehouse, the multi-dimensional database (MDB) can be used to support a limited scope where query performance is paramount:
Does Oracle 11g’s Result Cache Scale Poorly?
(Alex Fatkulin) In my previous blog entry, I explained why I would expect Result Cache not to scale well. Unfortunately, at the time that blog entry was written, I had no access to hardware with more than two cores. That left me in an everything-but-the-proof state. “Theory without practice is steri
Provide your ADF Faces application with a central BindingContainer for generic access to application wide services
(Lucas Jellema) Some operations and data, available from one or more ADF Data Controls, are useful across the application. From just abaout anywhere in the ADF Faces Web Application, you may want access to such operations and data. Typically, we work in the context of a JSF page that has an associat