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Make Ajax development easier with AjaxTags
(Daniel Wintschel) Developers and users have much higher expectations for the usability and responsiveness of Web-based applications in the Web 2.0 era. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two years, you’ve likely heard of Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (the Ajax technique). Ajax allo
IBM DB2 9: Is certification worth it?
(Kathryn Marquis) Most professionals want to advance their careers – and IBM DB2 professionals are no exception. As technology changes, it’s logical to assume that practitioners should update their resumes to stay competitive. Even professionals armed with years of hands-on experience can benefit fr
Ajaxify a simple HTML page using a web service
(Mike Clark) In this article I will explore using a web service to deliver HTML markup content to an HTML aware client using the XML HTTP request object from JavaScript code. In this specific case, I am using a .Net web service to serve the HTML markup and an HTML page to consume it. This same appro
DB2 9 Fundamentals Exam 730: Section 1 DB2 Planning
(Troy Coleman) Last week I explained the roadmap to DB2 Certification. This week I’ll examine the first exam, 730 “DB2 9 Fundamentals.” This exam is made up of seven sections (Planning, Security, Accessing DB2 Data, Working with DB2 Data, Working with DB2 Objects, Data Concurrency and Introducing Xq
Creating a Custom Pager for GridView
(Bipin Joshi) The inbuilt pager of GridView control is limited to only few navigation options (numbers, next-previous etc.). At times you need to customize the pager to suit your applications requirement. One of the common requirements is the ability to jump to a particular page of the grid. This is
Fun with Running a Cluster on Two Servers
In preparation for rolling out a production cluster I had to set up a development cluster. I set things up on two servers so that a SQL node and a ndb node ran on each server. What fun. Right.
Getting Started with Silverlight
(Adam Nathan) Despite all the wonderful things you can say about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, I think most people doing a lot of web-based development would agree that they form a pretty poor environment for developing modern sites and applications. If you care about your content working on most web b
Installer Class and Custom Actions
(Arnaldo Sandoval) Installer Classes are great tools that you can develop and integrate with your Setup and Deployment Projects in order to perform additional tasks while running any application’s installation or un-installation process, thru its MSI file.
Sharing the event logic between controls in VB.NET
(Irina Medvinskaya) Whenever you write the code logic that may be used for more than one control, it makes sense to try to save time by creating only one procedure that will handle the event and perform that logic. In this tip, I show you a way to share the event logic for multiple controls on a VB.