(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle 10g offers significant enhancements that help insure the high availability of any Oracle database, as well as improvements in the database disaster recovery arena. This article – the final in a series – focuses on new functionalities provided by the Data Guard and LogMine
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An Introduction to the Microsoft Enterprise Library
(Scott Mitchell) One of Microsoft’s efforts over the past couple of years has been to provide developers with useful code libraries that illustrate best practices. This achieve this goal the Patterns and Practices Group has been tasked with developing numerous application blocks, which are open-sour
Sarissa to the Rescue
(Emmanouil Batsis) Client-side XML processing. Today’s browsers do cover the basics and some of them go even further, offering support for XHTML, SVG, XSLT, XPath , XLink, validation using W3C XML Schema, and more. This article will introduce you to basic cross-browser XML development with the aid o
Counting Strings
(Potkin Nemat) This code tip shows the number of times a string is found within another string.
Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0
(Jesse Liberty) In a previous article I demonstrated how to bind data within a Windows Form. In this article I will show how to bind data to ASP.NET controls. Not only has Microsoft made radical changes in how this is done between ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0, but it has also created significant differences
Best Practices for Problem Resolution and Production Support of .NET Applications
Whether you are in the process of building Microsoft.NET applications or have .NET applications already running in production, you must ensure that these applications deliver the expected return on investment (ROI), and that means high levels of application availability and performance. (R,pdf)
Building Web Applications with Oracle HTML DB, Part 2
(Michael Klaene) In last month’s article, “Developing Applications with Oracle HTML DB, Part 1,” we set up a rudimentary HTML DB application and deployed it to our workspace. To highlight the ease in which any developer, or non-developer with minimal SQL skills, could build something useful with thi
Building a Simple ColdFusion Content Management System with MySQL
(Charles Kaufmann) This tutorial lays out the basics for creating a content management system in ColdFusion and MySQL. The System leverages hierarchical data to automatically build breadcrumb lists, a side navigation menu, as well as a site map. The goal of this tutorial is to provide a framewor
IBM expands corporate search ambitions
(Martin LaMonica) By the end of the year, Big Blue intends to release an update to its corporate information-management tools, which are designed to bring order to potentially thousands of data sources in a company’s network.
Are Application Servers, XML, and Web Services Fads?
(Jack Martin) I received a lot of feedback last month on my “Will Every Child Be Left Behind?” editorial. A lot of you related your collective disappointment in the current state of our public schools. What surprised me was the number of readers who thought that application servers, XML, and Web