(Josh Fitzgerald) If you’re a developer and use the Internet at all, you’ve probably heard of RSS by now. The RSS format provides a Web site a way to easily share its content with other sites or client applications. An RSS feed, or channel, is simply an XML file that uses a set of defined tags t
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A Pattern-oriented Approach for Architecting Solutions Using Open Source Software
(Srinivasan Radhakrishnan) Open source software is gaining increased attention and is clearly making its mark in the IT portfolio of many small and medium businesses. The increased usage of Linux, the availability of production quality Web software, and the widespread adoption of open source develop
RACing ahead with Oracle on VMware – Part IV: Installing RAC Database with ASM Option
(Tarry Singh) In our last article, we talked about installing clusterware on two Windows 2003 nodes. Installing the database and setting up ASM was actually no problem but I did encounter some issues when trying to attach shared disks on disks that were, well, slower. Here we will install a fully wo
Configure a Web Application to Use a Specific Version of ASP.NET
(Manoj Agarwal) Have you faced the problem of having different versions of ASP.NET installed on your machine and wanting to run a particular ASP.NET application in a specific version and not been able to do that, even after trying various things like tinkering with the web.config file or checking di
The Singleton and Factory Patterns in PHP: Working With Singletons
(Alejandro Gervasio) In this fourth part of the series covering the Singleton and Factory Design Patterns in PHP, we will discuss issues stemming from the fact that PHP 4 does not have an abstract class. Since we found it useful in the previous article to define the form element factory class as an
Simplify .NET coding and maintenance with class libraries
(Tony Patton) I was recently called onto a project to add features to existing applications. To me, this is one of the most challenging aspects of being a developer because the existing application strips away much of your control.
An Introduction to Linux Shell Scripting for DBAs
(Casimir Saternos) About seven years ago, Oracle released the first commercial database on Linux. Since then, Oracle, Red Hat, and Novell/SUSE have been steadily collaborating on changes to Linux kernel as they relate to database and application performance. For that reason, Oracle Database 10g for
Scripting Database Objects using SMO
(graz) With the introduction of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has created a new .NET management API for SQL Server called SQL Management Objects (SMO). As I started working with SQL Server in earnest following its release I discovered a few limitations that I hoped to correct using SMO. This article de
Practical data binding: XPath as data binding tool, Part 1
(Brett McLaughlin) So far in this column, I’ve focused on the fairly traditional definition and use of data binding: An XML document is converted into a Java representation and used in normal Java methods (for example, getName() or setAddress()). Then, the Java object is converted back into an XML r
Is Your Java Middleware Impacting Application Performance?
(Kurt Survance) A serious performance problem can arise when connecting a Java application to a SQL Server 2000 database. Many developers are not aware of the issue or of how to avoid it. The essence of the problem is this: By default, most, if not all, Java middleware drivers send string parameters