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Learning XML

A book by Erik T. Ray.Although Learning XML covers XML rather broadly, it nevertheless presents the key elements of the technology with enough detail to familiarize the reader with this crucial markup language. This guide is brief enough to tackle in a weekend.

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Get Ready for .NET

By Michael Otey – The only constant is change, and nowhere is that maxim truer than in the software development arena. It seems that by the time you've mastered one technology, you have to put all that knowledge aside and move on to the next "big thing." And the Microsoft .NET Framework

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XSD Schema Tricks and Tips

By Kurt Cagle – Modern XML technology rests on three distinct legs: the XML specification itself, XSLT/XPath, and XML Schema. Schemas are significant not only in defining XML structures but also in providing data type capabilities to XML, adding a measure of object oriented programming support, and

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DCMI release RDF toolkit

By Edd Dumbill – The Dublin Core Metadata initiative and OCLC have released the Extensible Open RDF Toolkit (EOR), a platform for rapid development of RDF applications. EOR is implemented in Java, and is aimed at applications focused on the discovery, management, integration and navigatio

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SQL Server Benchmarks

SQL Server 2000 can handle 688,220 transactions per minute! SQL Server 2000 has further established its position as the fastest database in the world. With a performance rating of 688,220 transactions per minute (tpmC) and price/tpmC of $28.89, a 32-node IBM/eServer xSeries 370 system exceeded the p