(Lewis R Cunningham) Well, has it really been a month of testing already? How long have I been doing this? Let’s see, about 3 weeks before ODTUG and 3 weeks after preparing for the prototype and then 4 weeks navigating around various bugs trying to test the prototype. No wonder I have a headache.
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IBM DB2 Content Manager document routing, Part 2: A guided tour to API usage
(Alan Yaung and Allan Tham) This second article in a series of three articles will introduce you to IBM DB2 Content Manager document routing and provide a claim process case study to show examples of implementation and usage of APIs.
The Snapshot Agent fails and a ‘The COMMIT TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION’ error message may be logged in the Distribution Agent log in SQL Server 2000
When you set up a publication in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and then you try to run the Snapshot Agent, the Snapshot Agent fails. When this problem occurs, the following 3902-based error message may be logged in the Distribution Agent log: The COMMIT TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGI
IBM Offers Text Search, Analysis Framework To Open-Source World
(Barbara Darrow) The IT giant is offering yet another batch of technology to the open-source world in hope of propagating widespread text search and analytics.
XML-based Code Generation with CodeSmith
(Mike Gunderloy) As you undoubtedly know, XML has become ubiquitous as a data storage and transmission format. It’s possible to build an entire computing infrastructure on top of XML files, and many development shops have done just that. XML-aware tools are an important part of the picture, and
Using Singleton Patterns in your VB.NET Code
Have you ever used a VB app where when you made changes, it then asks you to stop and restart the application in order for the changes to be applied. I hate that, here’s some code I used to update configuration information for a VB.Net application I wrote.
Oracle Users Shrug at Security Woes
(Lisa Vaas) Are they in denial about scary-sounding security flaws, late patches and patches that need patching? No, users say, they’re just locked down tight and don’t find the bugs as troublesome in reality as they are in headlines.
XML TreeView Control
(Thomas Siepe) Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to display XML-data to your users and/or make it editable? To achieve this, one might first think of the (in .NET 1.0 unmanaged) Browser COM plug-in. It does the display part quite well, although the unnerving JavaScript-blocker on Wi
Open Source Calling
(Chad Dickerson) There’s nothing I can do about it. Open source can’t help me with my crusty old PBX. Except that it can. And for me, that suggests that open source can — and will — go anywhere and everywhere.
Zend Core for IBM adds database, Web services support
(Colleen Frye) IBM gave another nod to the PHP open source, server-side scripting language with last month’s announcement of Zend Core for IBM, developed jointly with Zend Technology Inc., Cupertino, Calif. (R)