(Tim Dawson) Actually it’s a term I just made up, but when I say it I am referring to those user interface controls that present themselves as lists. The more obvious examples of these are listboxes, listviews and treeviews. Less obvious are things like toolbars. They all maintain a collection of ob

(Craig Mullins) WA database application requires constant interaction between various disparate computing resources to operate efficiently and according to specifications. Realistically, the tuning of a database application can be broken down into three components: system tuning, database tuning, an

(Larissa Moss and Steve Hoberman) To fully appreciate the inherent potential of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing, one has to understand the origins and significance of data modeling. The origin of data modeling predates data warehousing by more than a decade and it predates the re

(Warren Sequeira) A data warehouse is a valuable asset to any organization because it integrates and enhances the organization’s raw data that is stored either in its online transaction processing (OLTP) databases or in external data sources. Users from various locations can access this central

(Scott Beatty) Though jEdit is strongest at supporting Java, it does a pretty good job with PHP, and its core strengths work with any language. For PHP it doesn’t qualify as an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, though it does share some features with the latter, including syntax highlighti

(Michele Leroux Bustamante) In my last article (Part 1) I discussed how to design ASP.NET applications that run with least privilege, explaining how to elevate privileges when components require access to protected resources such as the database or file system. Hardening an ASP.NET application impli

(Brian Mains) JavaScript can be dynamically added to ASP.NET pages within the code-behind page or through a custom control. Each has the ability to do this through methods defined in the Page class, RegisterClientScriptBlock and RegisterStartupScript.

(Brian Krebs) Microsoft Corp. released a dozen software patches to cover 16 security flaws — half of which it deemed “critical” — in all versions of the Windows operating system and a broad range of popular Microsoft applications such as its Internet chat and media player products.

(Wayne Kurtz) In two previous articles published on dataWarehouse.com, I described the Six Basic Interrogatives (6BI) Design Framework. In the first article, 6BI was described as an approach to designing databases that support business intelligence applications. In the second article, I gave a v

(Amit Bhagwat) Data modeling is no doubt one of the most important and challenging aspects of developing, maintaining, augmenting and integrating typical enterprise systems. More than 90% of functionality of enterprise systems is centered round creating, manipulating and querying data. It therefore