(Jonathan Bruce) Few serious applications are considered enterprise-worthy without a core database engine backed by an extensive, normalized, and optimized relational database architecture. Traditionally, such database applications rely on SQL queries and statements to retrieve and update data in th

(John E. Simpson) Nobody looks forward to forms. Stop a person on the street and ask them what they think about forms and you’ll get an earful. Curiously, though, in XML circles forms hold a great deal of interest. Admittedly, not the filling of forms per se, but the technology involved.

(Phillip Perkins) Synthesised speech or audio files create the interface between the application and the user, and the user can respond by either speaking to the phone browser or punching the touch-tone buttons on the phone.

(Peter Rodgers) 1060 NetKernel is a software infrastructure, but it will generate misconceptions if I label it before describing its origins and essential architectural principles.

(Nitin Bharti) Gone are the days when it was enough to scan your computer and e-mail attachments for malicious files. As XML traffic over the Internet increases, the threat of viruses, worms and malware is crossing over into the world of Web services. (R)

Information Technology is becoming more than ever a science in its own right, new architecture for designing information systems uses real mathematical formulae which are difficult for neophytes to understand: SOA = (EDI + EAI + XML + BPM) x WEB (R)

(Nirosh) SOAP messages are not the best way to send large binary files. As the Web Services emerge, people look for Web services to have more and more functionality. Result was the introduction of Web Services Enhancement (WSE) 2.0. The Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET (WSE) supports

(Simon St. Laurent) I mentioned in an earlier weblog that Access supported XSLT transformations on import and export through the GUI, but not through VBA. Here, extracted from something I wrote for Access Hacks, is a solution, if an imperfect one.

(Tony Lawrence) Configuration files are a problem for both operating systems and applications. Where do you keep them, how are they structured?

(Micah Dubinko) Nobody looks forward to forms. Stop a person on the street and ask them what they think about forms and you’ll get an earful. Curiously, though, in XML circles forms hold a great deal of interest. Admittedly, not the filling of forms per se, but the technology involved.