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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
mong other things, in this article you’ll see how to write a PHP web service using the NuSOAP library, as well as a JavaScript client to consume it using the
he first article in this series covered important changes to the core language and its type system. This article focuses on how Python 3.0 treats the basic data types: numbers,
he first installment of this article showed how to leverage C# syntax to create a specific type of domain specific language in C# called a “fluent interface.” Building a fluent
ith the recent release of the JavaFX Software Developer Kit 1.1, Sun also released the long awaited JavaFX Mobile platform. Through a Java-like scripting language (JavaFX Script) and a single
An earlier DevX tip, “Create a New XML File Using XmlDocument,” showed how to create a new XmlDocument, populate it, and save the results to a file. This tip uses
SQL developers are mostly familiar with using temporary tables to temporarily accumulate or store query results. However, using a “table variable,” a less well-known concept, turns out to be a
This tip shows you how to inject an EJB 3.0 into the init() method of a servlet. //place all the required imports hereimport package.to.EJB.interface.myInterface;public class EJB30Servlet extends HttpServlet {@EJBmyInterface myobj;public
ost server-side applications require the ability to process tasks concurrently, which improves performance and increases utilization of hardware resources. In early versions of Java (1.4 or earlier), developers needed to
he web offers a way to share incredible amounts of information; however?even within a single organization?as the amount of content grows, it became more and more difficult to manage and
he web is experiencing a rapid trend towards AJAX and rich Internet applications (RIAs). With AJAX as a tool for RIAs, developers can now deliver much richer content over the
public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent e) { //get the servlet context ServletContext servletContext = e.getServletContext(); //get the real path String root = servletContext.getRealPath(“/”); //get all handlers Handler[] handlers = logger.getHandlers(); //remove all
The following function returns the part of the passed string that matches the regular expression provided. You can use this function to get the necessary data from fields in a
While porting a 32-bit application to a 64-bit version, I discovered an interesting effect. The original code used negative array indexes frequently, which worked fine on a 32-bit machine, but
