(John Topley) Last time we looked at Jakarta Struts, I explained the persistence and business object layers and we wrote code to retrieve the list of topics from the database and represent them as objects. We used a Struts ActionMapping and an ActionForward, to get as far as the JSP that will actual

(Craig Abramson and Thomas Mascoli) Discover how to improve the performance of your data warehouse with this white paper. It shows you how to use techniques such as maintaining aggregates, separating descriptive data from factual information, and preparing fact and dimensional tables. (pdf)

(Ronen Feldman) Unified business intelligence (UBI), the combined analysis of structured data and unstructured content, is a relatively new practice, but one that can yield significant ROI if approached in a focused, methodical way. The two practices – structured data analysis and unstructured c

(Alejandro Gervasio) Welcome to the final part of the series “Object Interaction in PHP: Introduction to Aggregation.” Certainly, we’ve had some hard work, but it’s been worth the gain. Implementing aggregation in PHP is one of the most powerful techniques currently available to reveal the strengths

(Jesse Liberty) I’ve been working with Whidbey (.NET 2005) for a little over a year. During that time, I’ve come to have enormous respect for the engineers at Microsoft, and I do believe that .NET 2005 (2.0) is a great improvement over 1.x. That said, the beta has had a bit of a hard time settling d

(Klaus Aschenbrenner) The problem with developing enterprise applications is you have to reinvent the wheel for each key area, such as configuration, database access, or security. Microsoft has addressed this problem in the past by providing application building blocks. However, one of the biggest p

(Amoy X. Yang) Customer lifetime value (LTV) can be quickly computed if all the required data is readily available. However, data tracking and data mining could be the biggest obstacle that hampers most direct marketers. There is little, if any, discussion on data preparation for LTV analysis. Build

(Robert Soderbery) Today many companies have implemented clustering, storage management and replication technologies as a line of defense against downtime — server and application failures, site outages, human error and other events that can threaten business operations and customer service levels.

(Mohammad Azam) The datagrid is one of the most coolest controls in the Asp.net. One thing that all developers need is to put the data grid data into Excel sheet. In this article I will show you that how you can export your datagrid data to Excel file, Word file and also Text file.

(Craig Abramson and Thomas Mascoli) Discover how to improve the performance of your data warehouse with this white paper. It shows you how to use techniques such as maintaining aggregates, separating descriptive data from factual information, and preparing fact and dimensional tables. (R)