(Mark G. Sobell) This chapter steps through the process of installing either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core. Frequently, the installation is quite simple, especially if you have done a good job of planning. Sometimes you may run into a problem or have a special circumstance; this chapter gi

(James Gates) RPG programmers are quite familiar with the CHAIN op code. COBOL programmers are equally as familiar with the random READ by key. However, many iSeries programmers are not so familiar with SQL’s ability to join files. Recent conversations with other professional programmers have shown

(Guy Creese) Data warehouses have now been with us for over a decade and will be with us for many years to come. However, with virtually all business data now created electronically and the price of storage dropping like a rock, a new type of business intelligence repository is starting to appear –

(Danny Lesandrini) There are a number of ways to execute a SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) statement from Microsoft Access, besides the obvious process of creating an Action Query and double-clicking its icon. Understanding your options with respect to executing SQL will make your code cleaner,

(legalAlien) I found I had a need to store simple arrays in properties for easy retrieval throughout an application such that they may be set in formA, displayed in formB or reportA, further changed by formC and then viewed again in formA or formB or reportA or reportB. This is not the only solu

(Sidney Finehirsh) There’s little doubt that the concept of “utility computing” is gaining momentum. Claiming advantages in reliability, scalability, flexibility and economy, leading vendors like IBM, HP and Sun are all promoting “on-demand” solutions. These advantages come with a payment plan t

(Steve Dunn) StringBuilder has an Append method that returns a reference to itself. This is useful for when you want to append several items in one go.

(G. Allan Alderman and Bryan E. Slatner) The Microsoft .NET Framework is a rich and powerful runtime environment for creating and deploying Web-based applications. But, it’s rife with gotchas and pitfalls for the inexperienced programmer — and some of these can result in subtle and irritating bugs.

(i386.com) There are many Date Controls to be found around the Internet and including many here at CodeProject. However few don’t tap into the .NET’s System.Globalization class for retrieving month names in foreign languages. Names for months in Afrikaans to Vietnamese can be achieved without the kn

(Alejandro Gervasio) In the final article in our series about using PHP and JavaScript to store data on the client side, we will be building on what we learned about server and client interaction to create a JavaScript-based paginating system.