There are at least three Open Source implementation of Microsoft’s Dot Net platform – Mono, DotGNU and Rotor. Though there are a few other implementations happening at some remote corners of the World Wide Web, these projects are insignificant at least at this point of time.
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Do More With Less: Exploring Virtual Server 2005
(Anil Desai) Over the years, computing hardware performance has grown at a dramatic rate. There’s always some hungry application waiting to gobble up all that power, but many machines run at a small fraction of their total capacity, taking up precious space, administrative effort, and resources. If
IBM DB2 Content Manager V8 Configuring High Availability in a Microsoft Cluster Services Environment
(Pei Jun Chiang, Patricia Virtucio, Cataldo Mega, Anan Mahasintunan, Bruce Smith and Xin Chen) IBM DB2 Content Manager for Multiplatform V8.2 is an Enterprise-class application that customers might want to install and set up in a high availability configuration. Installing this kind of application
Ajax, Atlas, and all that Stuff
(Peter Aitken) When I was growing up, Atlas was a mythical guy with big muscles who held the world on his shoulders. There was — and still is — a wonderful statue of him at Rockefeller Center in New York City. And Ajax was something you used to clean the bathtub.
Dealing with images in content management systems, Part 1
(Tom Crane) The raw images might be from digital cameras, from mobile phones, or from scans. These will almost always be far too large, both in pixel dimensions and file size, to be used as web images. In a typical scenario, the finished images will need to be constrained to a certain pixel size to
The art of metaprogramming, Part 3: Enterprise metaprogramming
(Jonathan Bartlett) Enterprise metaprogramming is becoming more common all the time as graphical and textual utilities make programming tasks easier and more descriptive, all because of the continuing formalization process occurring under the Object Management Group’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
Manipulate strings with PHP
(Christian Wenz) This sample chapter, taken from PHP Phrasebook, discusses how to use PHP to manipulate strings. (pdf)
Using the SMO API
(Brian Mains) With the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 product, a new set of .NET API’s are available. These API’s can be used to interface with a SQL Server (called SMO) to perform a multitude of actions. For example, the APIs can retrieve all of the databases, tables, and columns that reside on a specif
Building a Rule Engine with SQL Server
(Joshua Greenberg) Rules play a central role in a wide variety of applications. In addition to the declarative specification of business rules, the simple rule engine design described in this article can be used to implement state machines, predicate dispatchers, or any other rule-based system.
Oracle Database Connection Strings in PHP
(Alison Holloway) It’s easy to get confused as to how to specificy your Oracle database connection string, and there’s a handy new feature in Oracle 10g that makes this a whole lot easier. So here’s a little rundown of the three ways to connect to Oracle databases.