ervice Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an increasingly common buzzword in today’s industry. The benefits of a Web services-oriented framework are well appreciated, but not always well-understood. Enterprises planning to convert
dobe Systems made an eye-widening play Monday, offering $3.4 billion in stock for rival Macromedia, which, if approved by stockholders, will move Adobe more fully into the developer marketplace and
n part 1 of this article, I showed you how to use a great third-party utility, FlashAmp, to create a simple amplitude array, and how to use amplitude and spectrum
o far, you and I have journeyed through the realm of class diagrams. Classes are a good start for understanding how an application is hooked together, and while they describe
partial class has its source code split over multiple source files, each of which appears to contain an ordinary class definition from beginning to end. Ideal for team development, partial
art 1 of this article included an example that demonstrated how to read messages from a queue asynchronously. That example worked by first calling BeginReceive on the queue object and
ome of the grubbiest ethical quandaries in IT never quite get resolved; we make progress, we debate, we set guidelines, but burying such issues for good?with accepted industry policy?is a
he recommended way to create cross-language Web sites is to localize using .NET’s support for culture codes. Here are some examples of culture codes: en-US: “en” represents the English language.
C++ inherited from C its three memory storage types: automatic storage (also called stack memory), static storage for namespace-scope objects and local static objects, and the free-store(also called the heap),
ibernate has taken the IT world by surprise with its easy-to-use, high-performance, and sophisticated features for object-relational (OR) persistence. The most recent version of Hibernate (version 3, released on March
o one who works in IT today can escape the carnage wreaked by hackers. Worms and other exploits are increasingly designed to target specific vulnerabilities in software ranging from operating
he designers of Subversion have created an open-source version control tool that fixes the flaws and addresses shortcomings in the popular Concurrent Versions System (CVS) version control system. The following
While manually inserting or updating table values, you can press ctrl+0 to insert a NULL value. This tip works for MS SQL SERVER Enterprise Manager, all flavors. Related Posts CoreOS
This tip provides a way to access the user control’s variables inside an ASP.NET Web page. Assume that strVar is the variable declared in the user control’s code-behind file. To
When an exception occurs, this code snippet will print the stack trace of the exception to a string. This way, the exception stack trace at runtime can be recorded in
The compiler creates a default construtor only in the following situations: When the class’s base class defines the default constructor. When the class of member objects defines default constructors. When
his article is the second of a two-part series discussing how to use service-oriented techniques to refactor a mainframe application into deployable Web services within a standard Java servlet framework.
VC, or Model-View-Controller, is a design architecture that promotes separation among parts of an application, with particular focus on the presentation tier. The concept of MVC is inherent in the
he proliferation of handheld devices means that users are increasingly relying on them to perform routine, daily tasks?the cell phone, with its video card and internet access is becoming a
he combination of a database, Web server, browser, and scripting language is a powerful one when it comes to application development. Increasingly, this can be done without code; unfortunately, to
ntil recently I did most of my PHP development using DreamWeaver or Notepad. I wasn’t happy with most IDEs for developing PHP applications. In my opinion, the best IDEs for
any application developers face the challenges of working with SQL Server 2000. These challenges include retrieving and grouping large amounts of data, building result sets, and tracking changes to data.
he BlackBerry wireless handheld device by Research In Motion (RIM) has quickly gained popularity among mobile professionals. With its “Always On, Always Connected” approach, it enables corporate users to connect
ne of the major advances in ASP.NET 2.0 caching is support for SQL cache invalidation. This feature lets you retrieve or generate a rowset, usually as a DataSet or DataTable,
ndigo is the next generation application connectivity and services from Microsoft, superseding the variety of .NET connectivity solutions available today: ASMX Web services, Remoting, and Enterprise Services. Since .NET debuted
To be able to read from two streams, you need two threads. A common mistake is to start a process and then only read standard out (stdout. Another mistake is
How can you detect if a class overloads a particular operator when you don’t have the source for the class? You can define the operator globally so that it accepts
ost Web hosting providers block port 3306 (the MySQL server port) at the firewall to prevent outside access. As a result, many MySQL developers and administrators can’t access and manage
lthough AOP and MDA were developed from very different viewpoints: programming vs. modeling; weaving many inputs into one output vs. creating many outputs from one input, there is a great
have moved my household and its belongings something like 15 times in my adult (that is, post-high school) life. I’ve moved across the country (twice, from Houston to Boston and