(Nitin Bharti) Oracle Corp. made significant strides in the Java and open source communities at JavaOne this week, taking a leadership role for a key Java specification and announcing that it will spearhead several projects to further the Eclipse open source development effort. (R)
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Reading and Writing XML in .NET Version 2.0 – Part 3
(Alex Homer) This is the third in a series of three articles that look in detail at how the new features within the System.Xml namespace in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework can be used to read and write XML documents, and interact with the new XML document store objects.
Friendster Scales-Out with MySQL Network
Helping 17 million people stay in touch with their friends and make new connections with others is a big job. A really big job. However, as the largest social networking site on the Web, Friendster is up to the task — even with 60 million page-views each day. To manage such a large (and growing)
Comparing XML Performance
XML Mark is an XML parsing benchmark originally created by Sun Microsystems to demonstrate the relative performance of Java XML parsing vs. .NET (C#) XML parsing. The original Sun XML Mark 1.0 benchmark kit can be downloaded from Sun’s Website.
Encapsulating ODBC in ASP .NET – Introduction
(Jason G. Williscroft) In an earlier article (Implementing ODBC in ASP .NET), we described some issues with Microsoft’s ODBC server controls, and how to work through them. In a nutshell, although Microsoft provided the necessary data objects, they left out the logic required to wire these objects in
Organization in wxPython
(Peyton McCullough) While absolute positioning of controls may work in some odd cases, absolute positioning isn’t convenient or pretty. This article will explain methods that can be used to better oganize controls in your wxPython aplications.
Easy Web Services with SQL Server 2005 HTTP Endpoints
(Randy Holloway) SQL Server 2005’s HTTP/SOAP endpoints provide SQL Server developers with new capabilities for using Web services within SQL Server. It’s worth noting though that Web services aren’t new to SQL Server 2005. In SQL Server 2000, SQLXML provided a set of supplemental tools that exte
Import Security event logs using Log parser and SQL Server
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) In order to satisfy the demands of General-Controls review by public auditors and regulatory agencies, companies should monitor the security events of every production system they have. This article illustrates how to use Microsoft Logparser 2.2, Job Scheduler and SQL S
Retrieving Scalar Data from a Stored Procedure
(Scott Mitchell) Virtually all ASP.NET applications of interest work with database data at some level, and one of the most common databases used in ASP.NET applications is Microsoft’s own SQL Server database. With relational databases like SQL, commands are issued through the SQL syntax, which inclu
Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework: Transaction Services (Sample Chapter)
(Christian Nagel) Transaction services are usually the main reason why Enterprise Services is used. So that you do not have to deal with transactions programmatically, Enterprise Services offers a way to use transactions by using attributes.