(Matt Nicholson) For those involved in mobile or embedded development for Windows-based devices the place to be this May was Las Vegas where Microsoft was holding its Mobile & Embedded Developer Conference (MEDC) 2005. Here over 2,000 delegates turned up to attend more than 100 sessions spanning
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Wed Yourself to UML with the Power of Associations
(Anneke Kleppe and Jos Warmer) The UML association is a concept that is often misunderstood. The most common misperception is that an association is the same as a pointer, or maybe two pointers, in a program. UML associations are much more powerful than that.
Simplify XML processing with XJ
(Rajesh Bordawekar, Michael Burke, Igor Peshansky and Mukund Raghavachari) Extend Java technology with first-class support for XML, XPath, and XML Schema to make XML processing programs easier to write, more robust, and more efficient. This article provides a gentle introduction to XML Enhanceme
Integrating Web services into other applications
(Tony Patton) Over the past several weeks we’ve developed a Web service from start to finish and learned how to expose product information. The Web service was developed with the .NET Framework, and a proxy class was created to test the functionality.
Login failed for user ‘username’. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 18452)
During a logon process to SQL server the following error may appear: “Login failed for user ‘username’. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 18452)”.
The Needle in the Haystack
(Howard Goldberg) Wouldn’t it be great if you could search your enterprise data the same way you search the Internet? Most of us use Internet search tools daily to look up movie times, search for business addresses, shop, or just surf. Billions of pages of unstructured data make up the Internet. Yet
Introducing IBM Workplace Designer
(Dick McCarrick) In many corporations, a business software platform is only as useful as the applications you can develop with it. With that in mind, IBM has announced IBM Workplace Designer 2.5, a standards-based development tool that allows developers to quickly and easily create components for re
Big Blue and Siebel Bolster Their SOA
(Coreen Bailor) Siebel Systems and IBM have unveiled the Siebel 7.8 Web UI Dynamic Developer Kit, which leverages the IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal. The announcement is part of the companies’ joint strategy to deliver SOA-based apps. Siebel says about the release that dev
Great Expectations
(David A. Kelly) For years, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) were considered local operations, more concerned with cash flow than competing with larger enterprises. But not anymore. In terms of IT, today’s SMBs often have just as many challenges as, if not more than, large enterprises.
ASP.NET Web Development using RedBack objects
(Ray Else) ASP.NET is Microsoft’s powerful new Web middleware platform that supports both VB.NET and C#.NET languages. This article shows how you can use ASP.NET to access your UniData or UniVerse database in a simple, elegant way using IBM’s RedBack middleware.