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colleague of mine, a database programmer who had spent some time working with an early XQuery implementation, once referred to the language as the smiley language. When I asked whether
Cloud computing has been getting an increasing amount of press recently, because it offers attractive solutions to a number of business problems. Cloud computing translates to “hosted applications;” a hosting
isual Basic 9 has a new set of language features that allows developers to work with XML in a much more productive way using a new API called “LINQ to
en years after the ratification of the first ISO C++ standard, C++ is heading for no less than a revolution. C++0x, the new C++ standard due in 2009, brings a
ne major new feature in the C++0x standard is multi-threading support. Prior to C++0x, any multi-threading support in your C++ compiler has been provided as an extension to the C++
very C++ programmer has had one of those days: A simple use of a template library turns into a nightmare, with pages upon pages of error messages streaming out of
Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of the C++ programming language, is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He has always been
or most enterprise architects, the value proposition of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is clear: SOA enables flexibility, agility and re-use benefits that are broadly recognized throughout the software development community. You
indBugs is an open-source static analysis tool designed to find bugs in your Java code. Unlike many other static analysis tools, however, FindBugs concentrates almost exclusively on isolating potentially dangerous
At a lunch conference yesterday, Yahoo! released Fire Eagle out of beta. This API allows you to broadcast your location to whomever you want, automatically or manually via your phone.
previous article on XForms in OpenOffice showed how to create a simple XForm in OpenOffice. My introduction to this particular technology came while working on the Danish UBL project, which
Amidst a flurry of announcements about the foundation at last week’s LinuxWorld, LiMo’s Morgan Gillis held a kind of “state of the foundation” session on Wed., describing the foundation’s seemingly
The following code shows you how to develop a simple Java application that can play MP3 files. This application is based on JMF (Java Media Framework). import javax.media.*;import java.io.*;import java.net.URL;
An easy way to identify the execution path of the current assembly is to retrieve the read-only AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory property. Note that Environment.CurrentDirectory property (read-write) also does the same, as long
In SQL Server Management Studio, you can use the Alt key in your keyboard to select blocks of text to execute. For instance, sometimes I create a SQL script to
In today’s world of fast food, fast cars, and instant gratification, people expect to be in touch at all times. We have become conditioned to staying in touch with businesses,
he traditional ASMX web service request/response communication model is limiting, because it is passive?in other words, web services return results only when called by client code. For example, imagine a
f you develop Web applications that have an international target audience, then you have to take internationalization into account—a process that includes avoiding date/time or currency confusions and delivering all
his series of articles addresses functional programming, the main concepts and differences compared to other paradigms, and how F# helps you get up to speed and produce results. This article
Suppose a user enters some information on the page and tries to close or navigate from the window?without saving the data. You may want to warn the user about possible
n recent years, the move towards web-based applications has accelerated for a variety of reasons, including the need for simple and reliable installations. Despite the many reasons for developing web
The code below demonstrates how to resize a form to the working area on the desktop using GetScreenRect. Private Sub frmFullScreen_Load _ (ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Here’s a JavaFX example that creates a nice menu bar. All you need is a set of images named: home_1.bmp (unpressed), home_2.bmp (pressed), news_1.bmp, news_2.bmp,contact_1.bmp, contact_2.bmp, photos_1.bmp and photos_2.bmp: import
Q: What is the smallest object size possible in C/C++? A: A first attempt to create a size 0 object may look like this: class Empty {}; However, the value
icrosoft released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 in November 2007. I have good news and, depending on your perspective, I have either bad news or good news. If you
uch of agile software development methodology is grounded in the lean manufacturing principles developed and perfected by the Toyota Motor Company, and translated to software production by a number of
ne topic you really need to understand when deploying Windows Mobile applications is security. Often, developers spend a lot of time developing and testing their applications on emulators. However, applications
The semantic web turned me into a flip-flopper. I’ve heard from both the positive and negative camps. The positive camp thinks the semantic web will revolutionize the web. The negative
rying to understand the logic of an unfamiliar Java project can be taxing. Learning the project’s code is even more difficult when there is no knowledge transfer from the developer(s)
