(Kent Sharkey) This article describes one technique for merging multiple RSS feeds into a new RSS feed, which enables merging common data into a single source to make it easier for users to find the information they want.

(Daniel L. Fox) Perhaps I’m just getting older, but in days gone by, the IT world was a simpler place. After all, when big iron ruled, the applications that the IT department developed shared a single data source, and all the clients for those applications shared the same code base and platform. The

(Joe Gregorio) Amazon has recently introduced a new Simple Queue Service. Well, they haven’t introduced it yet; it is still in Beta. So take this article with a grain of salt as the final service provided by Amazon may differ from what I describe here. The reason I am so interested in the Amazon

(Brett McLaughlin) Data binding solutions are often chosen and applied in a vacuum, without regard for other parts of an application’s infrastructure. As a result, these solutions are often great in concept, but ill-suited for the actual tasks that they must perform. This article details how to

(Richard Lowe) There are several popular commercial COM components that retrieve data from other web sites via HTTP requests, such as AspTear and AspHTTP. There is another lesser know option from Microsoft, however. Microsoft’s suite of XML DOM (Document Object Model) components includes the XML

(Paul Colton) Programming techniques continue to evolve, and with evolution comes opportunity. The success of the Web, in conjunction with the demand for rich clients and rapid development, has spawned a new generation of declarative languages. XUL, Macromedia’s Flex, Microsoft’s XAML, and Xamlo

(Wangming Ye) Weaving together Web services to create cross-organizational business processes requires all partners to program to the same standard model and to avoid exposing proprietary implementations. After many years of promoting the interoperability among vendors through joint efforts on stand

(Thiru Thangarathinam) In this article, we will see how to use Web services in a real-time Web application. Even though Web services are very powerful and based on open Internet protocols such as XML, HTTP and SOAP (that accounts for platform independence), using them in a real-time Web site require

(Vance McCarthy) The W3C’s release of recommended specs for XInclude 1.0 should make it much easier, and cleaner, to integrate multiple XML documents together into a single composite. In specific, XInclude 1.0 would create a “standard inclusion mechanism” for the XML mark up language, which would

(Dennis Pedersen and Torben Bach Pedersen) Motivated by the need for more flexible OLAP systems, this paper presents work on logical integration of external data in OLAP databases, carried out in cooperation between the Danish OLAP client vendor TARGIT and Aalborg University. Flexibility is ensured