(Uche Ogbuji) Firefox is a relatively new Web browser and currently the most popular browser built on the Mozilla platform. You’ve probably heard of it because of its phenomenal growth and its profile as an open source software success story. Perhaps it’s even your Web browser of choice, as it is mi
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Take caution when cleansing redundant delimiters
(Serdar Yegulalp) When formatted data passes from an application to a database, it is typically cleansed of redundant delimiters. The delimiters never change and they are only needed for human comprehension, so you can often do away with them when storing a particular piece of data on the backen
Oracle reveals first Fusion apps
(Barney Beal) Oracle Corp. said it has developed the first applications to be released on its Oracle Fusion Middleware. (R)
Implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture
A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a component model that inter-relates the different functional units of an application, called services, through interfaces and contracts between these services. The interface is well defined in a neutral manner that is independent of the hardware platform, th
Oracle Tip: Choosing an efficient design for Boolean column values
(Scott Stephens) When designing a database table structure, it’s important to choose an efficient strategy for storing a logical Boolean that you can use in many programming environments. (Although Oracle doesn’t come with a Boolean datatype for database columns, it does have a Boolean datatype in P
XML for beginners and experts
(rudy.net) After working with a couple of xml projects for the last six months, I am ready to share a class I wrote called XmlHelper which got me through all the complexity of xml and made my life a lot simpler. If you are a xml beginner or have no idea about xml, this article should teach you the
What Is ASP.NET
(Wei-Meng Lee) ASP.NET (Active Server Pages .NET) is a web development technology from Microsoft. Part of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET allows developers to build dynamic web applications and web services using compiled languages like VB.NET and C#. Using Visual Studio, the development tool from Micro
XMI: Using C# to Capture UML Models
(Mark Goetsch) In my last article, I introduced XMI, an incredibly useful XML standard for interchanging models. Because XMI uses XML and XML is just text, using a schema or standard, it is perfectly suited for storing the model information in a database. As companies start managing IT as portfolios
Automatic Email Alerts for Low SQL Server Disk Space
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) Usually SQL Server database administrators use the feature “Auto Growth” in the database configuration, in order allows automatic file growth when the database tries to expand. Though it is a good feature, sometimes SQL Server runs out of hard disk space. This article illus
An Extended Look at the Profile Object – Part 1
(Bilal Haidar) This is the first article in a series of articles on the new ASP.NET personalization feature, the Profile object. To start with we will explain what the Profile object is and how it differs from the Session object, and then provide simple examples of a Profile object with simple prope