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ocial networking has reached critical mass. One unique social networking platform, Twitter, launched in March of 2006 and took the world by storm with its social networking and microblogging platform.
he ORA-8177 error “Cannot serialize access” often frustrates developers and testers of Oracle database-driven applications that employ SERIALIZABLE isolation levels. These errors can be particularly vexing because they stem from
uilding on my previous article Yahoo’s Rich web UIs for Java Developers, which discussed how to use various Yahoo User Interface (YUI) web components for setup and design, this article
PF’s new control set includes both familiar controls, such as the Label and TextBox that do more or less the same thing as their Windows Forms counterparts as well as
he ASP.NET Provider Model drives many features within the ASP.NET architecture, yet most developers associate it only with security or membership-related functionality. This article takes you deep into the provider
The simplest way to measure the performance of a block of code (or an entire program) is to obtain the elapsed time. This tip shows you how. ‘At the top
Not all JavaScript loops are identical. Try the code below by pasting the HTML in this tip into a file and then opening the file in your browser. You should
When Oracle bought Sun, it got Java. If you make your living in Java development, that statement can make you cringe, smile, or shrug—depending on how well you think Sun
f you’ve been programming in C++ for any time at all then you’re familiar with variadic functions, functions (such as printf) that can take a variable number of arguments. C99
package com.extensions;import java.io.IOException;import java.io.File;import java.io.PrintWriter;import java.io.FileOutputStream;import java.io.FileInputStream;import java.io.OutputStream;import javax.servlet.ServletException;import javax.servlet.ServletContext;import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;import java.util.zip.ZipFile;import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;import java.util.StringTokenizer;public class ExtractZipsServlet extends HttpServlet { protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
You can make Visual Studio build a solution automatically at certain time of the day using a batch file. In the example below, devxtry.sln is the name of the solution
As job losses in the U.S. mount, under pressure not only from the current economic downturn/depression, but also from foreign competition, de-unionization, outsourcing, offshoring, and imported labor (both legal and
roviding flexible reporting capabilities has been one of the key goals for the Microsoft Dynamics series of products. Microsoft signaled a significant shift in this regard with the launch of
he previous articles in the series covered the most significant changes to the core language and type system and the basic data types in Python 3.0. This article covers the
evice fragmentation is an issue that plagues the mobile application developer. With the thousands of devices on the market, it is difficult to know which devices can host a new
Suppose you wanted to retrieve the department number (deptno) and name (dname) fields for employees in an emp table. One way to get the values is with this SQL query:
ilverlight 2 just went RTM. This product is unique because for the first time in the Microsoft world, you have .NET running cross platform, in a secure way, and without
When editing in Visual Studio, you would normally write a MessageBox.Show or a Console.Writeline to log the value of a variable. But you can eliminate that work now. Instead, try
Here’s an alternative way to lock your Windows computer. Right-click an empty spot on the desktop, and select New ? Shortcut. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, type or copy
any applications use a loop that fills a raw memory buffer with data, processes that data, and then clears that buffer before the next iteration. Standard containers such as vectoraren’t
his is the third in a series of DevX articles on the new hierarchical XML processing capabilities possible with navigationless database hierarchical processing. The first article covered the basics of
key to mastering the client side of rich Internet application (RIA) development is learning how to manipulate the Document Object Model (DOM). The DOM gives you access to all the
ith WPF and Silverlight, Microsoft provides both Windows and Web developers with powerful technologies to create rich, professional, and exciting user experiences. However, in general, developers aren’t graphical designers, leaving
To run only a portion of a large SQL or PL/SQL query in TOAD, you can press Shift+F9 to run the specific part of the query situated at your cursor.
When executing a ASP.NET Web application through a device emulator, you sometimes encounter errors when localhost is part of the URL. In such cases, replacing localhost with the machine’s IP
Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) comes with four window layouts: Design, Debug, Full Screen Mode, and File mode. You can alter these layouts through the General Development Settings dialog, which allows
This tip shows you how to use the findByExample method in Hibernate. The method uses the SQL AND operator to log in a user given an email address and password.
any MS Access and SQL Server developers are moving to .NET. It’s a natural migration because these developers can use .NET to create the same types of solutions they would
