(Martin C. Brown) Perl is an incredibly flexible language, but its ease of use can lead to some sloppy and lazy programming habits. We’re all guilty of them, but there are some quick steps you can take to improve the performance of your Perl applications. In this article, I’ll look at the key areas
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Connecting to an Oracle Database Using ASP.NET—A Step-by-Step Tutorial
(Jayan Nair) There are numerous articles on .NET and ASP.NET. However, recently I had to develop an ASP.NET application connecting to an Oracle database and, to make everything work together, I had to solve several problems. This article will show you the step-by-step process to develop an ASP.NET c
Learn Replication in an Hour
(Sudha Natarajan) In this article you are going to learn and implement Replication in an hour, amazing isn’t. Now let’s take a tour of Replication.
Of Presidents and Ontologies
(Paul Ford) As I write this, the outcome of the elections in the United States it entirely uncertain. But, eventually, someone must win. Let’s imagine it’s George W. Bush. How would we define him in RDF?
Incident Response – The Framework
(Steve Jones) Disaster Recovery is something that’s on my mind lately. With hurricane Charlie rolling through Florida recently (it’s August 2004 as I write this), and my partner Andy without power for nearly a week in central Florida, we’ve had some discussions about how to prepare for a disaster an
Building RAD Forms and Menus in Mozilla
(Nigel McFarlane) In Rapid Application Development with Mozilla, Web, XML, and open standards expert Nigel McFarlane explores Mozilla’s revolutionary XML User interface Language (XUL) and its library of well over 1,000 pre-built objects. Using clear and concise instruction, McFarlane explains what c
XML Schema is a Case of Premature Optimization
(ceperez) Developers are pretty familiar with the term premature optimization. If you’re unfamliar with the term, then just think of it as a bad thing. Premature optimization happens when a developer over zealously optimizes code before running system wide performace tests. For novices and peopl
Active Server Pages with ODBC driver for DB2 creates more than 7,000 threads
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) enters a recursive loop and creates more than 7,000 threads under the following circumstances: • A Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) program uses ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and Microsoft ODBC Driver for DB2 to retrieve data. -and- • The ASP pag
70-330 and 70-340: Sweating over Security
(Mike Gunderloy) Want to tackle a certification exam that will test your knowledge of .NET and development best practices to the utmost? One of the application security exams should be perfect for you then. You can choose from Visual Basic .NET or C# versions of the exam; the two are identical e
Data Binding in .NET / C# Windows Forms
Data binding provides a way for developers to create a read/write link between the controls on a form and the data in their application (their data model). Classically, data binding was used within applications to take advantage of data stored in databases. Windows Forms data binding allows you to a