(Glenn VanBenschoten) Studies show that data volumes are doubling every 6-18 months. Some analysts acknowledge, however, that as those volumes grow, the pace of information consumption accelerates – the moment when changed data must be useful and usable for the business. These converging forces put
Tag: Development
A Brief Look at Mod_Python
(Peyton McCullough) Python’s Apache interpreter is available as an Apache module, mod_python. This module reduces the time it takes to deliver a given page to a client. It is also capable of a great deal more, including interacting with Apache itself in various powerful ways. This article gives you
Five Reasons for Using an O/R Mapping Tool…
(Iqbal Khan) So, why should you use any O/R mapping tool? I am not talking about a specific tool but rather all O/R mapping tools in general. There are a number of reasons for using an O/R mapping tool but before I dive into that, let me give you a brief overview of what an O/R mapping tool really i
Working with Windows Forms Configuration Files in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
(Guy Rish) Among the many new features in the forthcoming .NET 2.0 are the revamped System.Configuration namespace and the Visual Studio 2005 configuration editor. The new classes raise configuration for both desktop and Web applications to a new level of sophistication compared to prior implementat
Manage Localization of .NET Apps
(Liewen Huang) Suppose a salesperson on the other side of the world says he needs your enterprise application to support another culture by tomorrow morning so he can demonstrate it to prospective customers in a potentially large market. Whether you respond “No way” or “No problem” depends on how yo
Understanding Threading in .NET Framework
(Chandrakant Parmar) Thread basics using followings: –How to Create thread; use System.Thread() class and create an instance –How to Join thread; use object.Join() to join threads. –How to Suspend thread; use object.Sleep() to Suspend thread –How to Kill thread; use object.
N-Tier Applications and .NET: Achieving Isolation between UI and BOL
(Bipin Joshi) In the previous three article (N-Tier Applications and .NET, N-Tier Applications and .NET: A Simple Example and N-Tier Applications and .NET: Achieving Isolation between DAL and BOL ) we have seen how a typical 3-tier application looks like and how to achieve isolation between Data Acc
No Datastructure? ColdFusion’s Query Object to the Rescue
(Eric Jansson) Those new to ColdFusion may be disappointed to find a weaker array of datastructures than those supported by other languages they have used for Web programming, such as Java and C#. While CF’s array, list, and struct types meet most of the routine demands of Web application developmen
Improving Query Performance for Data Warehouses
(Eric Rogge) Ventana Research assessed satisfaction, intentions, issues, difficulties and budgets related to assuring and improving query performance of data warehouses and data marts. Organizations continually suffer from cultural, agenda and understanding gaps between IT and business. While diverg
Search Entire Directories for Specified Files with Managed C++
(Tom Archer) I recently designed and coded a popular anti-malware (spyware) application that, among other tasks, searched for known malware “fingerprints” in memory, on disk, and in the Windows Registry. To search for the files on disk, I wrote a recursive function that searches a given file startin