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In Java, you can easily create and use a properties file containing name/value pairs. First, make a .properties file?name it Properties.properties. Place key/value pairs such as name = java in
To find out what statements are running in SQL Server and what parameters have been passed, use SQL Profiler. This tool is included when you install SQL Server Management Studio.
Sometimes you need to truncate a long path string to make it fit in a control. Currently, there is no .NET class that provides this functionality. The workaround is to
very environment has them: The dreaded manual tasks that drain productivity from the team and add instability to the processes. We usually dedicate only half our brain power?and never enough
Conducting an interview via email can be very convenient. I can formulate my questions exactly the way I mean them (avoiding my propensity for rambling), and the interviewee has the
our years ago, I presented a pioneer proposal for adding lambda expressions to standards C++. The lambda proposal has since undergone significant revisions and enhancements. In their new form, C++0x
NSI SQL can naturally perform full multi-path hierarchical data query processing that far exceeds the single linear path processing performed by XPath and XQuery today (see the article “Navigationless Database
n earlier article about Android showed you how to interface with GPS receivers to obtain the geographical position of a device. However, not all today’s mobile devices have built-in GPS
As Chief Architect of Platforms at Yahoo, Neal Sample is responsible for defining the technical design for the Yahoo! Open Strategy initiative. Y!OS is a platform that enables third-party developers
hen attempting to learn a new computer language, it’s difficult to find a problem that’s both interesting enough to bother working with and also simple enough to let you concentrate
indows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has been around for a couple of years now but there are still plenty of developers who don’t really know what it’s all about. Some think
I’ve read a lot recently about the economy, including a number of prognostications about how the downturn will affect IT. But most predictions ignore some basic IT facts. A downturn
If you’ve tried to back up a database in SQL Server 2008 and then restore it into SQL Server 2005, you know that the database backups are not backward compatible.
Contrary to popular opinion, the compiler cannot safely inline methods that have been declared as final. This is because these methods may have non-final declarations at runtime. For example, suppose
When you use a For Each loop to iterate through a String Array and perform some action with each item, the change doesn’t affect the String Array itself. Consider the
Here are some shortcuts that work in the Google Chrome browser: Control + O: Opens a new file dialog Control + A: Selects all Control + D: Bookmarks the current
he Getting Started with the Twitter API article described how Twitter’s founders see it as more than simply a web site where people can send short messages to those who
hile flying back home over the Atlantic, I thought about how much better developing for SharePoint has become after the introduction of .NET 3.5. I have repeatedly insisted that one
ebian GNU/Linux and Mono are two leaders of open source software. Debian is a Linux distribution with a social contract that places it among the best examples of free and
f you develop UI applications in F#, you probably miss the familiar Visual Studio form editor that comes with C# or VB. This is due to a simple reason: there
ne of Yahoo!’s key goals is to become more open through the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS). At the heart of Y!OS is an open and extensible platform that allows developers
love to say that I hate to whine, when referring to things about Windows Vista that drive me nuts, but clearly, I don’t hate to whine. I apparently love to
f you’re just setting out to develop your first mobile application, you may still be grappling with the fundamentals of installing SDKs, obtaining hardware, and scaling your application to the
When I first heard about twitter.com, a service that lets people publish messages of up to 140 characters at a time and subscribe to other twitterers’ message feeds, I wasn’t
equential values can represent a lot in a database. Sometimes they uniquely identify records (as primary key values). Often they’re part of the natural data, such as a purchase order
hile many technologies promise to put features of desktop applications on the web, Adobe AIR brings web development to the desktop. Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment that allows
JavaScript’s String object provides functions that display style of the text: big() blink() bold() fixed() fontsize(<size>): This function takes a parameter to specify the font-size in pixels. fontcolor(““): This function
This tip shows you how to encode and decode your URLs using the UTF-8 character encoding: import java.net.*;public class URL_Encoder_Decoder{ public static void main(String[] args){ String url = “@sir de
