(Craig Navin) Before the advent of the .Net framework, creating images on the fly for a web browser was a tedious task. Now, thanks to the .Net framework, creating images on the fly is a simple task. This article will provide the reader with the fundamentals necessary to start developing dynamic ima
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Use AJAX for Bright and Shiny Web Apps
(Duncan Kenzie) AJAX is the hottest new technology to hit Web development in a long time. Well, it’s not really new. The technology behind AJAX has been available for years now, but it has languished in relative obscurity until this year, when a company called Adaptive Path coined the term and w
Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL
(Marc Wandschneider) At some point in coding, you will want to reuse some code that you have already written. Personal Home Page (PHP) provides a number of ways to organize and reuse code – starting with functions, the most straightforward way to reuse code.
DBA Checklist – Part 2 DB2 Tools
(Dwaine R. Snow) In Version 8, DB2 introduced two new features to help you monitor the health of your DB2 systems: the Health Monitor and the Health Center. These tools add a management by exception capability to DB2 Universal Database by alerting you to potential system health issues. This enables
Embed a dynamic IM clause in a COBOL program
(Kent Milligan) Is there a way to have a dynamic IN clause embedded in a COBOL program? (R)
SQL Server 2005 may call for a smarter DBA
(Lauren Walker) With the release of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft hopes to move in on the large-enterprise database management systems market formerly dominated by Oracle, IBM’s DB2 and Sybase by offering features and scalability more like theirs. (R)
Implement Caching to Give Your .NET Applications a Performance Boost
(Thiru Thangarathinam) The most dramatic way to improve the performance of a database-driven application is through caching. Retrieving data from a database is one of the slowest operations that a Web application performs. If it caches the database data in memory, however, then it avoids accessing t
Microsoft Lauds ‘Scrum’ Method for Software Projects
(Darryl K. Taft) When Microsoft launched its long-awaited database and tools products last week, the company acknowledged it would have to act faster to revise its products faster as customer needs grow.
Oracle Advance Queue or Advanced Queuing from .NET (C#/VB/MC++)
(CastorTiu) Some time ago I had to work with Oracle Advance Queue and I got amazed what they can do. This is the link that was missing between the DB and the applications. Of course it had Oracle pipes, but they are a prehistoric version of what advance queue can do.
Work with RSS Feeds using the System.Xml Assembly
(Dan Wahlin) .NET version 2.0 adds many enhancements to the System.Xml namespace and its related classes. This sample code demonstrates how several of these enhancements can be used to consume RSS feeds to display on ASP.NET Websites in an efficient and scalable manner. Different techniques are show