(Tony Patton) One aspect of team development is allowing individual developers (or groups) to develop and build features locally before merging with a central repository that incorporates all changes. Developers test and debug locally with the latest version, and they still cross their fingers to en
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Watching Folder Activity in VB.NET – Introduction
(Jayesh Jain) Have you ever wanted to write an application that constantly monitors a folder and raises events when there is any activity in that folder? In the good old days using VB6, you had to use windows APIs to do something like this, which was not very simple and required a lot of coding.
IBM DB2 Content Manager V8.3 eClient integration
(Michael A. Ahern) Integrate the IBM DB2 Content Manager V8.3 eClient with another application using the eClient as the controlling, or initial, application and invoke the other application to perform that application’s business functions.
The 360 Degree View
(Michael L. Gonzales and Kevin Downey) Most vendors in the data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) space focus only on conventional structured data. In fact, with regard to data integration discussions, individuals involved in data warehousing and BI almost never contemplate data beyond the ob
Connecting the MySQL GUI Tools to a Remote Server through a Firewall
(Mike Hillyer) A large percentage of MySQL users are using MySQL on a web server hosted by an ISP. Most hosting providers block port 3306 (the MySQL server port) at the firewall, preventing outside access to MySQL. This is an important security practice and you should be very concerned if your ISP d
Understanding XML Namespaces
(Yasser Shohoud) Understanding XML namespaces is essential to understanding and building Web services. Unfortunately, most developers do not understand how XML namespaces work and get confused when they see all the colons and URLs. The funny thing is, namespaces are so simple that once you understan
Putting RSS to Work: Immediate Action Feeds
(Mark Woodman) In the course of working on the design for several RSS/Atom-enabled applications, I have become increasingly dissatisfied with the typical form of syndicated feeds. These feeds are so easy to generate that we can readily squirt out all sorts of information from applications without an
The Less SQL Server Sorts, the Faster It Responds
(Alexander Kuznetsov and Rajiv Rajak) Sometimes we developers put unnecessary burden on the server, having it perform too many sorts or sort more data than necessary. By applying the techniques described in the following sections to your design and coding practices, you’ll reduce the number of sorts
Survey: Some Quest Users Would Consider Nixing Oracle Upgrade
(Renee Boucher Ferguson) While Oracle Corp. is still evaluating its underlying platform decision for Project Fusion, its next-generation application suite under development now, some users are quite certain which technologies they need included to consider an upgrade.
RACing ahead with Oracle on VMware – Part V: The powerful SRVCTL Utility
(Tarry Singh) The previous article was a marathon and a real daunting project that involved getting your ASM and the database running under the VMware virtual nodes. It is important to realize that whenever you decide to get the RAC into production, you will not just do it with a couple of PC’s. The