(Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina) Framework Design Guidelines teaches developers best practices for designing system frameworks and reusable libraries for use with the Microsoft .NET Framework and WinFX. This book focuses on the design issues that directly affect the programmability of a framework
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WebSphere Process Integration V6: Business Process Management Modeling through Monitoring
(Ueli Wahli, Larissa Leybovich, Eric Prevost, Russell Scher, Andre Venancio, Sascha Wiederkom and Neil MacKinnon) This IBM Redbook presents a business process management (BPM) “round trip” scenario, showing how a business can use a full business integration solution to complete the following tasks:
High-Performance .NET Application Development & Architecture
(Dimitrios Markatos) It has always been a goal of project architects to plan an effective strategy from the ground up in regards to an new application. All relevant factors are taken into consideration with respect to the application, from its design and layout to a functional website infrastructure
Authenticate a user against the Active Directory using the user ID and password
(Anand Thakur) This article serves as a guide to using System.DirectoryServices (SDS) ADSI to access user and group in the Windows Active Directory. Authenticate a user against the Active Directory using the user ID and password.
Centralize site design with ASP.NET 2.0 master pages
(Tony Patton) I finally had an opportunity to utilize version two of the .NET Framework when a client decided to redesign an existing ASP site using ASP.NET 2.0. Many new features help to streamline development; one of my favorite features is master pages. I’ll describe the master pages design eleme
SQL Server 2005’s EXECUTE AS statement
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) In SQL Server 2005, you can explicitly or implicitly define the execution context. As we all know, a session starts when a user logs on to SQLServer or a connection to SQLserver is made. All operations in that session use the logon credentials used for connecting to SQL Ser
More on when to rebind in Version 8
(Willie Favero) Today’s post is inspired by Rick’s comment to my Saturday, April 1st entry that discussed “One more reason to bind after migrating to DB2 V8”. Rick asked what other optimizer enhancements would be available in new function mode (NFM) if a plan or package was already bound while in co
Data Modeling, RDF, and OWL
(David C. Hays) Everyone knows that we are drowning in information, both from the databases in our companies as well as from the world-wide web, the media, and life in general. The information technology industry has been wrestling with this problem for years, and one is entitled to wonder if thing
High Availability Disaster Recovery Demystified in IBM DB2 8.2
(Anil Mahadev) HADR stands for High Availability Disaster Recovery, a new technique introduced in IBM DB2 8.2.
Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: Users speak out
(Mark Brunelli) A recent interview has DBAs talking about the merits of the open source PostgreSQL database management system (DBMS) as compared to Oracle – and their opinions truly run the gamut. (R)