(David Stodder) Relentless: that’s the best way to describe the pressure database managers feel as they try to satisfy information-hungry enterprises. Business intelligence and data warehousing systems are moving toward real time, putting more demands on query performance. Enterprise applications an

(DJKarakadu) The latest buzz among web programmers is AJAX. Well, AJAX is nothing new, it has been around a while. It is nothing but remote scripting. AJAX is an acronym that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. You see AJAX used every where now. Google is an example. It is just the process o

(Michel Mitri and Nicholas Chase) This series details the creation of a mashup application that gives control over the data displayed back to the user. Now that you know how to create an ontology that defines the concepts represented by a service, you can enable users to choose which service they wa

(Scott Guthrie) I’ve been having some fun playing around with the ASP.NET AJAX Beta release this weekend.

(Kris Hadlock) RSS aggregators are not very hard to come by these days, but finding a good one can be quite difficult. On the other hand, creating a custom aggregator isn’t very difficult and can provide you with an interface of your own choosing. RSS aggregation presents the kind of data that’s per

(Nicholas Chase) Part of the value of forms is their ability to send information where you need it. In the case of Web forms, that destination is normally a Web server that analyzes the right data. But what if you want to send the information using e-mail? In XForms, you have two options for accompl

RSS is increasingly emerging as a useful means of exchanging information. And it’s not just for the latest news and sports scores — enterprises are increasingly examining ways to use RSS to improve communication and information sharing among employees. (R)

(John Charles) Choreography and orchestration define business processes that interact with external entities through Web Services operations using an XML based language, even though they are not synonyms.

(Duane Merrill) A new breed of Web-based data integration applications is sprouting up all across the Internet. Colloquially termed mashups, their popularity stems from the emphasis on interactive user participation and the monster-of-Frankenstein-like manner in which they aggregate and stitch toget

(Yakov Fain) There is this blog and a nice looking demo showing how AJAX can happily live together with Flex charting. This vendor’s AJAX grid component is populated with the data first, and then using FABridge the data is being passed to the Flex Charting component. Typically blogs demos like thi