(Martin LaMonica) The revamped licensing policy will take effect with the release of IBM DB2 Content Manager 8.3 on March 25.
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Navigating Open Source Licensing
(Blane Warrene) The decision to choose an open source license can mean different things to different people. Those considering the issue from an end-user perspective may feel that the decision is irrelevant: the equivalent of a commercial click-wrap license that generally also goes unread. For this
PHP Application Development Part Two
(David Fells) Building on what we learned in part one, this article discusses data storage, system configuration, error handling and logging. Read on to find out how practicing the proper use of these concepts can simplify application maintenance and testing, and accelerate system debugging.
Microsoft plans RFID software in 2006
(Ina Fried) After investing significantly in technology for radio frequency identification devices, Microsoft is readying its first major product, a software package designed to help companies manage the product tagging technology. s
Best Practices of Exception Management
(Anand Kumar Rao) Exception management is one of the key area for all kinds of application development .You should adopt an appropriate strategy for exception management to build high quality and robust application .It is a very powerful concept and makes the development work very easy if its used e
Automatically Utilizing XML’s Untapped Semantic Goldmine
(Michael M. David) A mind is a terrible thing to waste and so is the vast quantity of untapped data structure meta information available free for the using in any XML document. This semantic data available in XML is like gold lying on the ground ready to be scooped up and cashed in with little or no
SQL Server Data Mining: Plug-In Algorithms
(Raman Iyer and Bogdan Crivat) This article describes how SQL Server 2005 Data Mining allows aggregation directly at the algorithm level. Although this restricts what the third-party algorithm developer can support in terms of language and data types, it frees the developer from having to implement
Running XPath queries in PHP
(Philip Perkins) XPath is a language that allows you to address parts of an XML document, making XSLT transformations practically necessary. It also makes it an invaluable tool for managing XML data in applications such as Web applications. (R)
Autonomic Computing Expression Language
(Dakshi Agrawal, James Giles, Kang-Won Lee and Jorge Lobo) This tutorial shows how to use the Autonomic Computing Expression Language (ACEL), an XML-based expression language, to create an expression, parse it, prepare input for it, and evaluate it. ACEL was originally developed as a part of the Aut
Oracle and Pro*C – Part 1
(Steve Callan) Pro*C is another one of those tools or features from Oracle that keeps a low profile, quietly waiting its turn for you to use it when the need arises. With a little searching on various Oracle-related Web sites, you can read about how others have used Pro*C to greatly reduce processin