(Chris Smith) Ever roll into work and think you’re actually in Gabon on the set of Survivor? Everyone has his little tribe, and no one thinks anyone else is contributing enough to justify their existence?

(Sandy Carter) So far, Ive focused on examples of businesses building and growing individual communities to help drive their success. However, most of the companies with whom I spoke actually had a lot of different groups interacting with them in some capacity. For example, these organizations might

(Antonio Cangiano) Once upon a time there was a Ruby library called Hpricot. Well its still here in fact. This library is the de facto standard for parsing HTML in Ruby, and is often used to parse XML as well.

(Troy Coleman) I’ve been taking you on my journey to learn more about XML and, specifically, how to support applications using the new XML data type with DB2 9 for z/OS.

(Leon Katsnelson) When I started my career at IBM, I was convinced that this company had a language of its own. Last week at the IOD Conference in Las Vegas was reminded feedback from others that not only do we have a different vocabulary but we also make efforts to teach the rest of the world how

(Mark Brimble) I have just finished my first IBM integration project using BizTalk 2006 and will share my experiences here.

(Roger Sanders) Studying for DB2 9 DBA certification? Try your hand at the sample questions below, then review past questions here.

(Craig Mullins) Here is a follow-up question and answer based on my previous blog post:

(Fred Sobotka) IOD is a glittering, sprawling spectacle of DB2 education, but it’s not for everyone. Whether you were unable to attend last week’s conference because of work conflicts, budget issues, or a moratorium on business trips to Vegas, IDUG has you covered this month with three affordable DB

(Benjamin G. Leonhardi, Christoph Sieb, Michael J. Wurst, John Rollins and Jo Ramos) Data mining provides advanced analysis techniques to extract useful information from large data. Historically, data mining has been a task that could only be accomplished by experts in statistics and data analysis.