(Michael Kelly) I remember my first security bug. It was so simple, I stumbled over it accidentally. (Well, I told the very angry people who were upset with me that it was an accident.) The problem started with a developer who had left his or her user ID in a code comment on the login page for a pro
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Going Global
(Ron Hardman) The project’s development cycle was nearly complete, and the whole team felt as though it’d been through the ringer. It was six months of late nights, excruciatingly long meetings, rah-rah speeches delivered by Jerry, the company president, and countless cups of coffee. In just two
Disk Drivers
(Lester Knutsen) One of the best ways I’ve found to improve Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) performance is to monitor and improve the server disk layout and disk I/O. The best approach is to spread your database disk I/O across as many disks as possible so no single disk or partition becomes a bottlen
XSLT expression processing techniques
(Ed Tittel) In this sixth of nine pieces on the subject of XSLT, we’ll take the various functions and expressions you’ve learned about in previous tips and describe how to embed them inside sequences of processing instructions. Usually, this occurs within the scope of some ma
For Automated Sites PHP And MySQL Are A Perfect Match
(Halstatt Pires) A bit of programming is going to be necessary if you want to automate a site. There are many types of programs that can be used to automate a web site including JavaScript, PHP, Perl, ASP, Java and more. So, which do you use? For many, it is a personal choice.
IBM Achieves National Archives Approval For Records Management
IBM DB2 Records Manager has been officially approved by the National Archives (TNA) standard for electronic recordkeeping systems for the United Kingdom government.
Part 1: A Services-Oriented Approach to Business Rules Development
(Kevin Geminiuc) Many organizations are moving from an object-oriented paradigm for managing business processes toward a service-oriented approach; indeed, services are becoming the fundamental elements of application development. At the same time, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has
WebSphere Application Server V6 Problem Determination for Distributed Platforms
(Carla Sadtler, Simon Davitt, Rana Katikitala, Thu-Giang Pham, Craig Scott, David Titzler, Hari Venkateshaiah and Javier Voos) This redbook is intended to help customers through the process of identifying and resolving problems in WebSphere Application Server V6 on distributed platforms. It consists
Integration Theory, Part 2
(Rusell Ruggiero and Joram Borenstein) Back in late 1999, XML was considered an immature technology with a very low adoption rate among both vendor and developer communities. Today, things have changed a great deal regarding mainstream adoption of XML. A case in point is the recent announcement
Why PHP?
(Lewis R Cunningham) Oracle, the database, already supports PL/SQL. It also supports Java internally. Using ODBC, JDBC or OCI, it supports most other languages. So why make a big deal out of PHP support? What’s so great about PHP? What is ZEND?