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Relational Database Integration with RDF/OWL

WL ontologies allow you to describe data and relationships between data items. Common examples of this include complex knowledge domains such as pharmacology, but you can use OWL ontologies with

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SharePoint Applied: CAML, Your New Pet

harePoint is a powerful platform that gives you a very easy-to-setup place in which to put data. But you know what happens when you have a tool like SharePoint? People

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Network Know-How: Finding Shortest Paths

n my Taming Trees series of articles (see the Related Resources for links), I explained how you can store and manipulate hierarchical data. Those articles showed how to build trees,

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ASP.NET 2.0’s Project Health Monitoring Feature

ASP.NET 2.0 provides much needed project health monitoring through its Health Monitoring feature. Simply add few tags and their values in Web.Config and your project will be automatically monitored. This

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When Is Open Source Not That Open Source?

Setting the legal nuances of the chosen open source license aside, wouldn’t two products under any open source license have the same claim to the open source moniker? Maybe so

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Manipulate the Components of a JNDI Composite Name

This following code shows you how to list, add, and remove components from a JNDI composite name (javax.naming.CompositeName): import javax.naming.*;class jndiCompositeName{ public static void compositeComponents(CompositeName cn) { for(int i=0;i&ltcn.size();i++) System.out.println(cn.get(i));

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Applying SKOS Concept Schemes

nyone who has started to look into the semantic web has inevitability seen the Semantic Web Layer Cake diagram some place. This ubiquitous image highlights an overall (and evolving) vision

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Managing an Agile Software Project

verything right or wrong with a software project is management’s fault. Either management staffed the right people or the wrong people. Management was absent or involved. Management is hard, and

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Introduction to Scrum

ouldn’t you like to read about a software development process that realistically addresses the needs that you face in your projects? One that acknowledges fast paced environments and changing priorities

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Semantic Search Arrives at the Web

Semantic search has attracted a lot of attention in the past year, largely due to the growth of the semantic web as a whole. The term semantic search itself is

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Using the New ListView Control in ASP.NET 3.5

ny user-focused application that you write requires some sort of data integration. At minimum, you will need to retrieve some data from a data source such as a relational database

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Mobile Confusion

With last week’s release of the 3G iPhone, things are really heating up in mobile software development. My inbox is flooded with announcements–Nokia going open source, Google phone rumors, Windows

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How to Calculate the Alignment in C++

Use the following class to help calculate the alignment in C++: template&lttypename T&gtclass Alignment{ struct Align { char align; T t; };public: int alignment() { return sizeof(Align) – sizeof(T); }};

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Turn Off Auto-Commit for Better Performance

When you first establish a connection to a database, the connection is in auto-commit mode, by default. For better performance, turn auto-commit off. You can do this by calling the

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New Web Fonts for Windows Vista

Microsoft has released a number of new Windows Vista fonts, for use in web development. They are described on the Microsoft Typography site, with examples shown in XPS files. If

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Create the “Night” Filter Using the RGBImageFilter Class

The following code uses the RGBImageFilter class to create the “night” effect on an image: import java.awt.image.*;public class NightFilter extends RGBImageFilter { double frac; //0.0&lt=g>=16; int green=rgb & 0x0000FF00;green>>>=8; int

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Probe and Modify Your Types’ Alignment Programmatically

he alignment requirement of your target platform is usually transparent. However, when you need to send or receive objects via a network connection, serialize objects, design heterogeneous containers, or construct

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Semantic Technologies with Functionality

When I started with DevX, I knew nothing of the Semantic Web and the technologies that surround it. As I researched the subject, I realized that while a segment of

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Getting Started with OpenCalais and SearchMonkey

any digital documents reside on the web and other networks, but few of them have sufficient metadata to accurately identify the content. Adding metadata to a document has typically been

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Using the innerHTML Property

To change the text that appears when users click on a button in your program, use JavaScript’s innerHtml property. &ltscript type=”text/javascript”&gtfunction changeText(){ document.getElementById(‘boldStuff’).innerHTML = ‘Fred Flintstone’;}Welcome to the site, dude