(Willie Favaro) I was going for a nice flow with this series of entries, building every couple days on the previous discussion until planning for Version 8 was complete. However, like many things I start, I need to head off on a tangent for this entry.
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Four steps to migrating IBM Lotus Notes to WebSphere
(Chen Lin and Sue Hildreth) Java-based applications have become a major element of the IBM Lotus world. In many cases, it is possible to integrate Lotus applications/data with Java applications. However, as data becomes more relational and requires more transactions, the best solution is to complete
Pegasystems Processes 87,000,000 Business Operations By 31,500 Users in 8 Hours
In breakthrough performance testing of its business process management (BPM) capabilities, Pegasystems Inc. announced performance results of one of the largest scalability tests managed by the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA.
Processing XSLT
(Ed Tittel) In this third installment of our eight-part series on XSLT we’ll tackle how XSLT processing works and the kinds of processors used for that job. We’ll also describe how an XSLT processor internalizes and represents input documents, how a results tree is created, and then how XSLT output
A Closer Look at ADO.NET: The Connection Object
(Michael Youssef) When developing database applications using .NET, the very first thing that we need is a connection to the database. ADO.NET provides us with connection classes like the SqlConnection class and OleDbConnection class. The SqlConnection class is part of the SQL Server .NET Data P
Diagnosing and Debugging with the System.Diagnostics Namespace
(Jani Järvinen) In this article, it’s my pleasure to introduce you to the best of the classes and methods that the System.Diagnostics namespace has to offer for developers using the .NET Framework version 1.1. At the same time, I’ll share my tips and hints on how to diagnose your .NET applicatio
Handling Strings and Arrays
(Steven Holzner) In PHP, two types of data (strings and arrays) warrant special attention and a more complete explanation. This chapter details how and why these special data types are employed in PHP 5 with copious examples to get you started using these in your code.
Displaying money values in currency format in SQL
(Arthur Fuller) A reader sent me a question recently in which he wanted to know how to display currency amounts in the format we commonly refer to as currency. (I realize how geo-centric this is, so I will attempt to be world-centric in my response to the reader’s question.)
Use matrix operations to transform Spatial geometries
(Scott Stephens) Oracle Spatial is a powerful set of Oracle objects for storing, manipulating, and querying graphical shapes. There are many transformation functions to find complicated results such as the intersection or union of two graphical shapes. There are also functions that return the area a
Tip: Combine and alternate xml-stylesheet processing instructions
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) Separating content from presentation is a major goal of XML — a goal it meets quite well. A single document isn’t limited to a single stylesheet: One document can have many different stylesheets tuned for different readers and environments. This tip shows you how to include