(James F. Koopmann) A book for anyone that wants to learn about DB2 security: Understanding DB2 9 Security by Rebecca Bond, Kevin Yeung-Kuen See, Carmen Ka Man Wong, Yuk-Kuen Henry Chan

(Shreeraj Shah) The continuous adoption of Web 2.0 architecture for web applications is instrumental in Ajax, Web services and Flash, emerging as key components. Ajax is a combination of technologies such as JavaScript with the XMLHttpRequest object, DOM and XML streams. Cross site scripting (XSS)

(Peter Zaitsev) Kevin Burton writes about making MySQL Replication Parallel. Many of us have been beaten by the fact MySQL Replication is single threaded so in reality it is only able to use only single CPU and single disk effectively which is getting worse and worse as computers are getting “wider”

(Mahesh Chand) Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 (WSS) exposes its functionality using a Web Service interface, which has sixteen Web services and each of these services exposes different functionality such as security groups and users, user permissions, documents and imaging, lists, alerts, meetings, s

(Robert Thornton) JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language that runs in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This tutorial demonstrates how to install and configure JRuby to connect to the Apache Derby database. As Ruby and Ruby on Rails become more popular, JRuby becomes an interestin

(Claire Hong and Renata Kupresak) Welcome to the second half of the seventh tutorial in the “Hello, World!” series, which provides high-level overviews of various IBM software products. This tutorial is the second part of the introduction to DB2 on Linux, UNIX, and Microsoft Windows platforms. (You

(Nicholas Chase) RSS, Atom, and other syndication strategies involve making XML data available for download. XForms, which is designed to view and edit XML, is the perfect environment for an XML editor and reader. This article explains how to create an XML reader and editor using XForms.

(Scott Mitchell) The ASP.NET 2.0 data source controls provide a declarative means for accessing and working with data. Simply set a few properties of the data source control, bind it to a data Web control, and, voila, data is being retrieved and displayed without having written a single line of code

(Bilal Haidar) A new feature in ASP.NET 2.0 has been introduced, the ExpressionBuilder. The ExpressionBuilder allows declarative binding for control properties for data that is coming either from the ConnectionStrings and AppSettings section of the web configuration file or from the web application

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