(Ed Tittel) In 2005, the U.S. Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Among its many articles, it included a change to the start and end dates for Daylight Savings Time starting this spring. For those of you who didn’t notice, daylight savings took effect three weeks earlier and will end one
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The Basics of Using the Prototype Pattern with PHP 5
(Alejandro Gervasio) The prototype class lets you use many instances of a specific class, without copying objects to different variables. This article, the first of a two-part series, demonstrates the basic functionality provided by this pattern.
DB2 9 for z/OS Universal Table Spaces (UTS)
(Willie Favero) DB2 9 introduces a little thing called universal table spaces or what everyone seems to like referring to as UTS. This is, IMHO, an extremely cool feature. And although you haven’t heard everyone clamoring for universal table spaces, it’s a concept that quite a few people have wanted
Thinking XML: Microformats the XML way
(Uche Ogbuji) You might have heard about microformats, a way to embed small, specialized information within standard formats. In fact, microformats come in two types: elemental microformats, which are often quite useful, and compound microformats, which are often quite problematic. Learn about a bas
Weaving WebSphere: Screen Designer
(Joe Pluta) Strap in, kids; this is going to be a fast ride. The new Screen Designer included in WDSC is just chock full of features, and I want to show you as many as possible within the space we have here.
Sending binary data from WCF to Oracle Application Server through MTOM: Part I
(John Charles Olamendy) This article will illustrate how to send binary data from Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to Oracle Application Server (Oracle AS) using Web Services specifications specifically MTOM standard specification, thus achieving interoperability between the two platforms. Som
LINQ To Objects – Part 2
(Ged Mead) By the end of Part 1 we set the stage and looked at a couple of new features coming up in Orcas, but hadn’t done anything particularly exciting and new with LINQ To Objects. In this Part I’ll hopefully whet your appetite for LINQ a little bit more as we run some queries that are (a) ver
Templating in Oracle JDeveloper 11g
(Andrejus Baranovskis) As probably everyone of you have heard – this week was released Oracle JDeveloper 11g Technical Preview. I have looked through 11g release and should say, that if Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 was smart enough tool, then Oracle JDeveloper 11g is simply smart :). There are a lot of
Use Transformations to Draw Your Own Great Graphs
(Rod Stephens) Visual Studio comes with a huge number of pre-built components and controls, including controls for entering and displaying text, letting the user pick options and make choices, displaying values graphically, interacting with databases, displaying dialogs, and containing and arranging
LOB sizing
(Jonathan Lewis) Some time ago, I was asked to take a quick look at an application that had to handle a lot of LOBs. The LOB-specific part of the application was actually quite simple – contracts were stored as LOBs – but only for occasional visual reference; all the “structured” information from th