(Jason Brooks) I was pretty impressed when, just before Thanksgiving, I came across a Financial Times article reporting that Microsoft was pledging to open up the specifications for its Office file formats, although those specs wouldn’t be available for 18 months or so.
Other News
ASP.NET Web Project Generator on Oracle Schema
(oschakravarthi) This tool generates .ASPX, .CS files for a given Oracle Database Schema. It identifies the relations between database objects, designs ASP.NET pages, generates the server side code which includes Error checking and JavaScript Menus with complete navigation. It identifies the referen
Red Hat To Certify, Support LAMP And Other Open-Source Stacks
(Paula Rooney) Red Hat will launch certification and support services for leading open-source LAMP and Java stacks beginning in the first quarter of 2006.
IBM Information Management
(Philip Howard) This is the third of my articles derived from IBM’s Software Group analyst conference, in this case focused on the Information Management part of the IBM software portfolio, which is my main interest.
Thinking XML: Search engine enhancement using the XML WordNet server system
(Uche Ogbuji) In two previous installments — "Querying WordNet as XML" and "Serving up WordNet as XML" — I presented code for XML-based processing of the useful WordNet project. WordNet represents an important parallel to the central theme of this column: Thinking XML covers semantics in XML; Word
DB2 UDB for z/OS: Design Guidelines for High Performance and Availability
(Paolo Bruni, Patric Becker, Jan Henderyckx, Joseph Link and Bart Steegmans) Conducting business via the Web and remaining open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a week is now commonplace. Customers come in with unexpected workloads through the Web and operate in a self-service fashion with mo
Performance-Tuning Data Models
(Walter Howard) If you’ve made it alive through the technology downturn over the past few years, chances are you’ve had to do more for less. One of the things I’ve found myself doing more often than before is performance tuning my physical data models instead of handing them off to a DBA team for ph
Determine the Type of Modifcation Operation on a Table
(Sachin Kainth) Sometimes, when you’re working with PL/SQL trigger code, you need to determine the type of modification operation that’s been performed on the ‘triggered’ table. You can do this using the INSERTING, DELETING and UPDATING trigger predicates.
More Object Orientation in Python
(Peyton McCullough) This article goes beyond the basics of object orientation in Python. It covers the interesting things you can do with new-style classes, including properties and attributes, as well as other useful information.
Select random rows from a table in SQL
(Arthur Fuller) There are many ways that you can use randomly selected rows; they’re especially effective when you want to add dynamism to a site. For instance, you could randomly select a product to present as Today’s Featured Product, or QA could generate a random call list to gauge customer satis