(Joshua Mostafa) We’re going to look at the development process, some common pitfalls, and suggestions on how to tackle each stage. In this article, we’ll look at the first steps of a project, from the light bulb going off over the developer’s head to just before she writes her first line of code.
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(Uche Ogbuji) I wrote the Python-XML column for three years, discussing the combination of an agile programming language with an agile data format. It’s time to pull the lens back a bit to take in other such technologies. This new column, “Agile Web,” will cover the intersection of dynamic progr
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(Joris Evers) A quarterly patch update sent out by the company last week contained fixes for a laundry list of flaws affecting much of its lineup. But it left out some vulnerabilities that prominent security researcher David Litchfield expected to be tackled–leading him to call for a security overh
An Easy Introduction to XML Publishing
(PG Bartlett) We’re fond of history lessons in this column, so let’s go back to the year 1900. At that time, the average worker in the United States earned about $500 a year and a bicycle cost $600. No wonder the men on old-fashioned bicycles wore a top hat and tails – you had to be rich to own one!
DB2 System Catalog Views: Everything You Need to Know About Your DB Objects
(Shibu Kalluvila Raj) Any database engine, whether it is IBM DB2 UDB, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server, depends on stored metadata for the normal operation of a database instance. In DB2 UDB, this metadata information is stored as database tables and views called system catalog views. Application
Backing up and Restoring Databases in SQL 2000
(Steven Warren) If you are a Database Administrator (DBA), I have no doubt in my mind that you have been called away from home, dinner, or just plain in the middle of the night to answer a page on a disaster with your database(s). In this field, it is the nature of the beast to get called away at th
Improving Data Security by Using SQL Server 2005
Detailed discussion describing how Microsoft IT uses SQL Server 2005 to improve data security for its line of business applications. SQL Server 2005 enabled Microsoft IT to implement column-level encryption together with a robust, and yet easy-to-use encryption key management framework. (doc)
XML Matters: SVG and the scriptless script
(Dethe Elza and David Mertz) SVG has been a W3C recommendation for some time now but has been slow to catch on in the wider Web. That might be changing now that Mozilla (Firefox), Apple (Safari), and Opera all support (or are about to support) SVG in their browsers, without plug-ins. The Linux deskt
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In part two of this two-part series, co-sponsored by the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) and CA, presenter Maria Sarikos closely examines the DB2 Registery and Environmental variables, as well as Configuration Parameters that deal with memory areas for DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, Windows. Special