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Tip: Organize content with Atom categories
(Nicholas Chase) Atom lets you provide an easy way to manage lots of data, but there will come a point at which you need to add some sort of categorization to make that data manageable. This tip shows you how to use categories with Atom feeds and the Atom API. Although you will naturally add categor
Log DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows stored procedure messages
(Vikram S. Khatri) This article presents a logging framework that you can use with IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows stored procedures to log informational, error, and debug messages directly from the procedure itself. The logging framework methods use shared memory concepts to coordinate and cha
Importing your XML into a spreadsheet
(Brian Jones) I’m going to try to get back on top of all the e-mails folks have been sending me. If you’ve e-mailed me over the past 6 months the odds are that I didn’t reply yet, and I’m sorry about that. I’ll start reading through the e-mails again and rather than just replying directly I’ll actua
Ajax: The New Hero of Web Developers
(Madhu AP) About a year back, the name Ajax would have evoked two thoughts. One, it is the name of a great Greek mythological character who fought in the Trojan War. Two, it is the name of a popular European football club.
Resource Utilization and Provisioning Within Virtualization
(Art Sedighi) How do you go about provisioning your unused resources? Is it a safe assumption that your resources will be idle after 5PM? How about 6PM? Do you use a feedback model, or do you simply use a heuristically modeled policy and modify it as needed? The fact of the matter is that there is n
Flexible Content Display With Flow Documents
(Markus Egger) Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a great set of features. So many features, in fact, that even some very significant ones don’t get nearly the attention they deserve. A perfect example is the Flow Documents feature, which allows developers to create documents natively in
Synchronizing Data Access
(Jim Mischel) Probably the most difficult part about writing multi-threaded programs is synchronizing access to shared data. Read-only access is trivial and requires no synchronization at all. That is, any number of threads can simultaneously read from a given data structure. It’s only when one or m
Working with Dynamic Parameter Fields in Crystal Reports
(Saif Rehman) One of the most exciting new features on Crystal Reports XI is dynamic parameter fields. With previous versions of Crystal Reports you could browse your data source for a list of values to select from, but this was only available at design time. When you viewed the report again, the sa
Use the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool with DB2 Data Warehouse Edition, Part 2: Create basic reports and charts
(Vaibhav Srivastava) Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool (BIRT) is an open source relational reporting solution. It provides an Eclipse-based plug-in for report development and testing, and it provides J2EE deployment and APIs that can be used in custom Java applications. With IBM DB2 Data Ware