(Lisa Vaas) Oracle Corp.’s vice president of pricing and licensing defended the math behind the company’s new and comparatively stingy 25 percent rebate on multicore processors, saying that customers are now getting charged for what they in fact get: a 1.5 to 1.75 times performance boost from a dual
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Responsive User-interface Revisited
(Andrew Flick and Devin Rader) In our April column Responsive User-interface we introduced the concept of combining the Microsoft XMLHTTP parser object with client-side script to create highly responsive Web user interfaces. This technique, which has come to be known as Asynchronous JavaScript and X
NYPD Launches Tech Center To Tighten The Net On Criminals
(Larry Greenemeier) The New York City Police Department is turning to technology to help its detectives more efficiently chase down leads and solve crimes. The department’s $11 million Real Time Crime Center, which debuts Monday at a facility adjacent to the NYPD’s Emergency Operations Center in low
XML Web Service Caching Strategies
(Ganesh Nataraj) Despite advancements in network and processor speeds, performance remains a key concern among application developers. So whether you are writing an XML Web service, pushing image bitmaps to a video card, or even engineering that next great processing chip, you will invariably want t
High-availability middleware on Linux, Part 5: IBM DB2 Universal Database
(Hidayatullah Shaikh) Data is at the heart of any business, and access to it should be available with minimum downtime. In this article, take a look at the setup and implementation of a Linux High Availability solution for IBM DB2 Universal Database — the database management system that delivers a
Thinking XML: Schema annotation for bottom-up semantic transparency
(Uche Ogbuji) Learn more about the different approaches to semantic transparency as the author discusses what they mean to developers using XML. Whether or not you reuse schemata, you might find it valuable to use formal annotations (as opposed to the informal annotations covered earlier). You g
Oracle Forms: Can you get it to perform on a WAN?
(Grant Ronald) Like buses, sometimes I never hear questions about Forms performance and then this week – bang – three come along at once. Now, I am going to let you into the biggest secret in testing your Forms application for performance issues….you ready?…..KISS!
DeployPHP Series, Part 2: Bringing Data Security to PHP Applications
(Mikhail Seliverstov) Using PHP to build a Web-based, database-driven application is an increasingly popular way to give trusted users easy access to corporate data. However, the PHP developers must acknowledge that linking sensitive and often mission critical data to an application accessible outsi
Connect WebSphere Voice Server SDK to U2 using RedBack JavaBeans
(Louis Tur) Are you a RedBack developer who wants to offer access to U2 data from phone and other devices? Would you like to demonstrate that feature on your laptop? This article will show you how. Using the IBM WebSphere Voice Server Software Developers Kit, you can submit voice requests that use e
Domain Objects Persistence Pattern for .NET
(Iqbal Khan) Domain objects in an application represent the core data and business validation rules relating to it. And, domain objects are usually central to the entire application and used by most subsystems. Therefore, their good design is critical for a good application design that is robust, hi