(Richard Harrison) If you’ve ever looked into the XML features available with oracle it’s a little mindblowing, there is so much stuff available for working with XML it’s very difficult to know where to start sometimes.

(Igor Alekseev) Different programming languages support variance (covariance/contravariance) in different ways. The goal of this article is to compare all supported types of variance in C#, Java and Scala in one place, and to reason about why some architectural decisions have been made by language d

(Jovan Popovic) New JSON support in SQL server enables you to create SQL queries that use both relational and semi-structured data formatted as JSON text. In this post we will see some query examples.

(Manoj Bhoir) This article shows how to consume a web service in an ASP.NET application using the jQuery.ajax() method.

(Marco Gralike) A colleague of mine asked about the several ways of saving XML content, I knew, from an Oracle database. Thinking about it, I came up with the following list, but to be honest, there are many more, if not only because it is not a XML specific topic.

(DrABELL) A pure CSS3 styling solution (no JavaScript) described in the tip is applicable to HTML5 SELECT elements and ASP.NET DropDownList controls.

(Rasmita Dash) In this article, we will learn about the best jQuery practices. Developers all over the world should follow these practices while working on jQuery.

(Mike Wooldridge) MarkLogic has always invited the world to work with information in a different way. Instead of having to break apart your data so it can be stored in numerous tables, as you do with a traditional relational database, you store data in MarkLogic in the form in which it already exist

(Scott Wesley) It appears there will be a good 1001 uses for the APEX_JSON package in APEX 5, here is one of them.

(Wonde Tadesse) An article that explain hows to expose SignalR feature through an ASP.NET Web API, which helps applications that can use REST service and to broadcast a real-time message to their clients.