(Chris Eaton) Are you the kind of person that can’t sleep at night because you don’t know for sure if you turned the lights off in your living room? So you get up and go downstairs just to make sure only to find out they are already off. And then you get into the office and see that your previous […]
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Introduction to Syndication, (RSS) Really Simple Syndication
(Vincent Lauria) What are all those little orange RSS and XML buttons I see everywhere? Why do I see code when I click on them? If you’re interested in the answers to these questions, read on to learn about the world of syndication.
PostgreSQL and XML
(Tom Dyson) I’m been feeling mildly guilty about not publishing the work I did with John Gray last year on XPath support in PostgreSQL, but the interest in Jon Udell’s ‘SQL and XPath’ post has goaded me into action: here’s a brief outline of the four production-ready XPath functions which represent
Closed World Assumptions, Conjunctive Querying, and Oracle 10g
(chimezie) I promised myself I would write at least one entry related to my experience at the 2006 Semantic Technology Conference here in San Jose, which has been an incredibly well attended and organized conference. I’ve found myself wanting to do less talking and more problem solving lately, but I
Undocumented DBCC: Report on settings with DBCC RESOURCE
(Serdar Yegulalp) Among undocumented DBCC commands in SQL Server, DBCC RESOURCE is one of the few that can be used to report back on SQL Server’s own internal settings rather than reports on detailed information about data structures within SQL Server (such as tables, databases, indexes, etc.) (R)
Server-Side Asynchronous Methods for ASP.NET and WinFX
(Karl M. Hulme) The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to expose a method from an ASP.NET Web Service or WinFX Service that uses the asynchronous pattern internally, to increase the scalability of the service. Specifically, how to prevent the threads that are being used to service request
Recommended reading list: DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows application development
(Cindy Wong and Samuel Poon) This article provides a list of DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows application development materials available on the Internet. The DB2 UDB Information Center is also a good source of information. Many of the items listed below are published as articles on IBM develope
High Availability Application Server
(Antony Reynolds) It seems that I get asked a lot about how to set up Oracle Application Server in a High Availability (HA) environment. A couple of weeks ago I was asked to provide someone to assist one of our partners in setting this up in the Enterprise Technology Centre (ETC) in Thames Valley P
Why Asynchronous Delegates Are Your Friend
(Jon Shemitz) Many practicing .NET programmers do not know that any delegate can be invoked asynchronously. The syntax involves a strange and confusing pair of (usually) null parameters. Most people see that and immediately put it on the “some other day” pile, which of course gradually becomes the ”
How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster
(Falko Timme) This tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5 cluster with three nodes: two storage nodes and one management node. This cluster is load-balanced by a high-availability load balancer that in fact has two nodes that use the Ultra Monkey package that provides heartbeat (for checking if t