(Matthias Farwick and Michael Hafner) Five years after the introduction of SOAP 1.0, XML parsing is still the main bottleneck in web service performance. In search of components for a high performance web service security solution, we have executed benchmarks for various XML parsers in Java and C. T
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Data Security: The Naked Truth
(Scott Hayes) Many of you know that I spent years as a DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows performance guy. In September 2005, I pulled my head out of the sand and took an interest in security, auditing, and compliance.
UpdatePanel Tips and Tricks
(Jeff Prosise) For better or for worse, the UpdatePanel control is the darling of the ASP.NET AJAX community. I say “for better” because UpdatePanel makes partial-page rendering shockingly easy and “for worse” because its simplicity and ease-of-use come at the cost of efficiency and, ironically, ban
Saving MIPS by DB2 Data to Oracle for BI
(Jason Williamson) First I wanted to make a quick reference to a good article written by Mark Wilcox on how we can be more of a “blogging company”, which is my inspiration for this particular post. So, this keystroke saving effort is my effort to help break down those walls.
GridView, DetailsView, and SqlDataSource Interaction Part 1
(Brian Mains) This article will show you how you can use the GridView, DetailsView, and SQLDataSource controls together to create a comprehensive web site. This will be a multipart article talking about the various facets of using these three articles together. The article will make use of the Adven
File Tests in Perl
(Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix and Brian D Foy) In this article, you will learn how to find out useful information about files in Perl.
Building an offline application in IBM Lotus Expeditor
(Hunter Medney) IBM Lotus Expeditor is a compelling platform for building solutions for desktops and devices. Learn about three architectural patterns for offline applications and approaches for synchronizing data between client and server. To illustrate an offline application, a sample is provided
What ASP.NET Developers Should Know About JavaScript
(Scott) JavaScript – It’s beat up, put down, shrugged off and kicked around. Cursed by the web browser’s inconsistency yet blessed by a pervasive ubiquity -it’s a technology many try to disregard even when its potential is something few can ignore. If you want to write an interactive application for
Deploying a Local Database to a Remote Web Host
(Scott Mitchell) Microsoft Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition make it easy to design, develop, and test ASP.NET web applications locally. In my books, tutorials, and classes, the explanations, examples, and assignments often use these tools to develop web applications locally.
Optimal message processing with WS-Notification filters
(Dan Jemiolo) WS-Notification (WSN) is an OASIS standard that describes a system for subscribing to and receiving notifications from a manageable resource; these notifications may reference changes in state, fatal errors, status updates, and more. The standard also describes a way of filtering notif