(Irina Medvinskaya) Working with strings and performing various string operations is important to any Visual Basic developer. Whenever you need to be able to determine the number of words in a larger string, there is a simple VB.NET function that you can use in order to get the necessary result.
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Configuring J2EE Application XML Files
(Sam Alapati) In this fourth part of a series covering the management of OC4J and configuring J2EE applications with Oracle 10g Application Server, we take a closer look at at J2EE application deployment files and more.
Using Webparts in ASP.NET 2.0
(abdulsami) It would not be wrong to say that web parts are going to be the future of web-based management systems. Web parts give you the option of dragging and dropping objects on a page, plus changing titles, border styles, and properties of objects at runtime. Before the introduction of web part
Tip: Configure Apache to send the right MIME type for XHTML
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) This tip shows you how to configure Apache to tag Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) documents with the media type application/xhtml+xml for browsers that support it, while still sending text/html to nonconformant browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
How to Optimize Rank Data in MySQL
(Baron Schwartz) Imagine a site that keeps track of gamers’ scores in computer games and displays gamers in “leaderboards” ordered by decreasing score. The site is written in PHP and the backend is a MySQL 5 database server. Because the data changes frequently, the server uses the InnoDB storage eng
New Strategies Simplify Backups
(Ari Kaplan) Backing up data used to be simple. At night, when system use was low, you physically copied everything to tape. If you needed more space, you bought more. Backups might take several hours, but that didn’t bother most people. If you ever had to restore the data, you just copied everythin
Real-World AJAX Book Preview: The Essential AJAX Pieces
(Kurt Cagle) AJAX isn’t so much a single technology as it is a set of technologies that are now all part of most contemporary browsers. Because of this factor, it’s sometimes difficult to explain what precisely AJAX is, especially the degree to which XML or JavaScript predominates.
DB2 9 for z/OS: No V for z
(Craig S. Mullins) The beta program for the next version of DB2 for z/OS began back in June of 2006. This latest and greatest version of DB2 is known as DB2 9 – no V, just 9. At the time I’m writing this (early December), no GA date has been announced, but “word on the street” says to expect GA […]
WebSphere Classic Event Publisher for z/OS (Release 9.1) – An end-to-end scenario using native VSAM capture
(Tom Wabinski, Anil Varkhedi and Thomas Atwood) IBM WebSphere Classic Data Architect (CDA) is a remote administration tool for IBM WebSphere Classic Event Publisher for z/OS, and can be run from Windows or Linux workstations. This article covers the setup of MQSeries objects required by the scenario
db2pd to monitor table access
(Chris Eaton) Now back to my series of postings on the db2pd tool (posting 1, 2 and 3). In this posting let’s look at the table stats you can get out of db2pd. There is a flag you can use that will dump out any table that has been accessed along with some very useful information (some of which I […]