(Peter Aitken) In the first article of this series, we looked at some of the metrics that the .Net Framework provides to assist you with text placement. In this second and final article we will see how these tools and some creativity can be combined for really precise placement.
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Hacking MySQL: making TRUNCATE behaviour more intuitive
(Jorge Bernal) This is my second article about hacking MySQL. If you are interested in this topic, you may want to read my previous Hacking MySQL: SIGNAL support (I)
DB2 Express-C for Certification
(Howard Fosdick) To certify successfully, you need to study a good DB2 certification book and take some practice exams. Most importantly, though, you need to get hands-on experience with the product.
Tapestry and AJAX: Autocompleter and InlineEditBox
(Alexander Kolesnikov) Although the term “AJAX” was coined not so long ago, AJAX-like functionality has already been available in Tapestry for quite some time. In Tapestry 4.0 we can use Tacos, a rich and interesting library of custom Tapestry components that includes a number of AJAX-driven compone
Properties, Controls and XML: AutoSettings
(Chris_42) Allowing the user of your oh-so-fancy GUI to customize the experience by the use of settings is a very nice feature for any program. However, the user expects all settings to take effect immediately, which means that you have to listen to a multiple events (or, alternatively, use data bin
Trick SQL Queries – I
(Partha S) The past couple of weeks I have been focusing on some trick queries and thought of sharing those with you. This is the first one of the series – I hope to show the examples in both SQL Server 2005 & Oracle 10g – Express Editions for both.
Generate Web services for DB2 9 pureXML
(Vijay Bommireddipalli) Web services are important building blocks to achieve a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As more and more applications move towards an SOA, often there is a need to expose application functionality as Web services. This article will show you how you can easily generate We
Testing Custom Server Control Code That Depends On Its Container / Parent (the Page Object)
(Brett Burch) The issue of faking the Page object cropped up recently for me when building a server control library. I added client-side event attributes to my controls and wanted to write a test that essentially verified the expected html had been added to the HttpResponse. I hit a roadblock when I
FIX: The foreign key that you created between two tables does not work after you run the CREATE INDEX statement in SQL Server 2000
Consider the following scenario. You create a foreign key between table A and table B in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. You run the CREATE INDEX statement for table A. In this scenario, the following symptoms occur: • The foreign key that was created between the two tables does not work. • You can
10g Transparent Encryption: Not So Encrypted
(Christo Kutrovsky) I have been asked by a client to try out Oracle 10g’s transparent encryption. I’ve created the wallet, set it up into the sqlnet.ora file, and opened it. I initialized the certificate, created a test table, and encrypted a column with it.