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For those of you who didn’t attend Scott Ambler and Terry Quatrani’s keynote “Software Development Strategies, Philosophies, and Techniques: Traditional vs. Agile” at this week’s SD West conference, let me
previous 10-Minute Solution demonstrated the new initialization rules of C++09, which enable you to initialize standard containers (among the rest) in the following manner: vector scores = {89, 76, 98,
y previous Android article showed how to store data from Android using a SQLite database. Storing your data in a database is one good way to persist your data, but
Use the following steps to access the VB ActiveX DLL through VC++6.0: Provide the ProgId -> as input. This finds the CLSID using the CLSIDFromProgId function. To create an instance
As many developers have found when uploading files from an FTP server or shared drive, by default, ASP.NET programs cannot upload a dataset from a file that exceeds 4MB. You
lickOnce is a powerful and easy-to-use deployment technology that offers a relatively hassle-free experience for end users, when properly configured. Unfortunately, the developer story for ClickOnce varies from super simple
It can be annoying to type long path names at the DOS command prompt. To avoid having to do so in Windows, you can enable DOS’s auto-completion feature, which is
ou might expect all SQL Server’s clauses to support a column alias. As reasonable as that assumption seems, SQL Server can’t honor a column alias in that way. If you
alidating an XML document entails confirming that the document is both well-formed and conforms to a specific set of rules specified with a Document Type Definition (DTD), an XML Schema,
In ASP.NET, if you try to use a session or request variable before it has been set, you’ll get an error. The following functions prevent this by checking for nothing
t the JAOO conference in Aarhus, Denmark this year, domain specific languages came up in virtually every conversation; every keynote mentioned them, a lot of sessions discussed them (including a
This code shows how to create a new event using AWTEventMulticaster. import java.awt.*;import java .awt.event.*;class Buton extends Component{ private Image button_pressed,button_released; private boolean press=false; ActionListener actionListener; public Buton(){ button_pressed=Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(“?”); //pressed
This tip shows how to obtain the local absolute path of a class file containing the specified class name, as prescribed by the current classpath. Call this method as you
he inherent advantages to introducing queues into an application architecture are well understood. Queues, when used properly, can: Increase application robustness, as clients can send messages even when services are
I recently read the book, “33 Million People in the Room” by Juliette Powell. The subtitle inspired me to get rich quick: “How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business
When handling an ASP.NET server-side button’s Click event, you may want to do some client-side checking and possibly prevent the posting of a page back to the server. However, because
Sometimes, you’ll notice that when you open a URL (with dynamic content, and especially a pop-up window) a second time, the page displays the data which was displayed earlier and
This tip shows you how to correctly close a SSLEngine connection. Notice that this is not a simple process, like closing a simple socket! SSLContext context …;SSLEngine engine …;ByteBuffer dummy
arallel computing and concurrent programming are rapidly becoming mainstream topics for discussion in the corporate world. These are not new ideas; in fact they’ve been around for more than 30
f writing software is hard, then writing applications that will take full advantage of the ever-more-prevalent multicore/multi-CPU hardware?without introducing subtle race conditions and consistency errors?is even harder. Numerous solutions have
emember the red telephone box, once a familiar sight on the streets of London? That’s a good example of mutually exclusive access to a shared resource, although you probably didn’t
he days of large increases in clock frequency are behind us. It was great while it lasted, but it’s now clear that we have finally hit a frequency wall. Contrary
ith the processing power of single-core chips running out of steam, hardware manufacturers have turned to multicore processors to make up for the lack of processing power increases in single-core
fter downloading Sesame 3.0-alpha1, the first thing you might notice is that Sesame 3.0 is packaged slightly differently than in 2.x. The awkwardly named sesame-onejar.jar was replaced by sesame-client.jar and
ne of the coolest things Microsoft has shipped with the Windows Mobile 6 SDK is the Cellular Emulator. The Cellular Emulator is a software-based emulator that emulates a real cellular
hether you develop custom database solutions or administer existing databases, you know that deleting records is a common task that’s easy to automate?most of the time. However, deleting all the
bjective-C has become the standard programming language for application development on the Mac OS X and iPhone platforms. A powerful?yet simple?object-oriented programming language based on the C programming language, Objective-C
his is the third article in a series that describes the why, what, and how to migrate an existing application to the semantic web. The first article, “Why Migrate to
This tips shows how to use GetBetween to parse and extract a string between two strings. GetBetween returns the extracted string, if found. Public Function GetBetween(ByRef sSearch As String, ByRef
After declaring your class, suppose you want to add individual element properties to that class. This process has been simplified in Visual Studio when working in C#. Simply type prop
