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Make Location Aware Apps Part of the Grind with BREW

hile Qualcomm BREW has had support for location-based services (LBS) applications since its inception, only recently have CDMA carriers begun to roll out the back-end support these applications need. Consequently,

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Book Excerpt: “Expert Oracle PL/SQL”

xperienced PL/SQL programmers and Oracle developers will learn to master Oracle’s procedural extension to industry-standard SQL. “Expert Oracle PL/SQL” should help you become expert at developing robust, high-performance enterprise applications

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Add Object Cache Monitoring Using JMX and Aspects

ike many companies, my company uses an object cache to store frequently accessed data in memory so the server doesn’t have to access the back-end database every time it handles

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A Loop with an Exit Condition

Here is a pattern you will see quite often when structuring your code in loop constructs: 01 enum command { start, stop, wait, quit };02 command instructions;03 int counter =

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Closing a Popup Window Automatically

The following code will close a popup window after the user selects to download the file, or if he/she cancels the download. Between the tags of the document is popped

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Find All User Tables, Columns, DataTypes, and Length

To determine all your user tables, plus their columns, datatypes, and length, type: SELECT DISTINCT SO.Name AS “TableName”, SC.ColID, SC.Name AS “ColumnName”, ST.Name AS “DataType”, SC.Length AS “Length”, SC.Status AS

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What Does “strictfp” Do?”

When this modifier is specified, the JVM sticks to the Java specifications and returns the consistent value independent of the platform. That is, if you want the answers from your

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Creating Custom Generic Collections with J2SE 5.0

y last article discussed how to use J2SE 5.0’s new collection features, allowing you to designate a specific type to be used with a collection. Additionally, the new “for each”

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Book Excerpt: Visual Studio Tools for Office

ritten by the inventors of the technology, Visual Studio Tools for Office is both the first and the definitive book on VSTO 2005 programming. VSTO is a set of tools

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Open Source Database Feature Comparison Matrix

? Apache Derby 10.1 MySQL 5.0 PostgreSQL 8.1 One$DB 4.0 General ? ? ? ? Database Connections Multiple Multiple Multiple Multiple Concurrent Access to Multiple Databases ? ? ? ?

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Java EE 5.0: Towards Ease of Development

o develop even a simple J2EE application, developers must write lots of boilerplate code (as Enterprise JavaBeans, or EJB, in Java) and set up a myriad configuration files (as deployment

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Send and Recieve Messages Using a CGI Java Application

The following code shows you how to send and receive CGI messages from a Java application: import java.net.*;import java.io.*;class POSTrequest{URL url=null;URLConnection URLcon=null;OutputStreamWriter OSW=null;BufferedReader BR=null;PrintStream PS=null;public void GetReady() { try {

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Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

ascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a powerful way to separate content from design in your Web Forms applications. Effective use of CSS is an easy way to maintain and consolidate

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The Windows Communication Foundation: A Primer

he WCF is an incremental, yet evolutionary technology that brings all the formerly distinct and separate Microsoft connectivity technologies together under a single umbrella within the System.ServiceModel namespace. Included in

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Building a Stored Procedure Generator

e all know that the most efficient way to access data from a database is to use stored procedures. For most applications, these stored procedures follow the same basic design

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Book Excerpt: The 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security

his essential book for all software developers?regardless of platform, language, or type of application?outlines the “19 deadly sins” of software security and shows how to fix each one. Best-selling authors