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Utility Class Fills in Java’s Missing Functionality

Java programmer seems to live in two worlds. One is the object-oriented world of classes, interfaces, methods, accessibility, and more advanced notions such as patterns, refactorings, aspects, and concerns. The

Locate the Installed Version of MS SQL Server

This query: select @@version provides the following information: Version installed Service Pack installed Edition installed Here’s a sample of the output: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 – 8.00.194 (Intel X86) Aug

Configure the Behavior of Servlets While They Are Loaded

Servlets can be configured using the initialization parameter. These parameters can be anything like username, password, URL, etc for accessing a database connection, the location of the configuration file, etc.

Use CausesValidation to Prevent Unwanted Validation Checks

Validator controls automatically trigger validation checks for every postback?irrespective of whether you need validation or not. To prevent this, set CausesValidation=”False” for the control for which you do not need

Security Training Falling Through the Education Cracks

an Francisco, Calif.?”Ninety-nine percent of the people want to write secure code,” said panelist Ira Winkler, at the Secure Software Forum last week, “they just don’t know how.” Winkler, Global

Powerful Printing in Flash MX 2004

t is no longer neccessary to creatively twist and bend Flash’s printing APIs to perform the more complex printing tasks like multi-page printing. Thanks to ActionScript 2.0 and Flash Player

New Protocol Offers Simple, Efficient Java RMI

he Burlap/Hessian protocol is an alternative remote object invocation and Web services protocol supplied as an open source Java framework through Caucho Technology. If you want POJO (Plain Old Java

Gates Announces Upgrade to Internet Explorer

espite fairly recent protestations to the contrary, it seems as if Microsoft has had Internet Explorer 7 planned all along. At the RSA Conference 2005 in San Francisco this week,

Make an IIS Server Recognize ASP.NET Web Pages

For some reason, if you install IIS after you’ve installed .NET, IIS will not recognize ASP.NET pages. To fix this, go to: Start?>Programs?>Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003?>Visual Studio.NET Tools?>Visual Studio .NET

Converting Numbers into Words

Ever written a PL/SQL block of code to convert numbers to words? Try this easy line of code to accomplish the same task: SELECT TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(764,’J’), ‘JSP’) AS WORD_FORM FROM DUAL;

Model XML to Please Humans and Computers Alike

“euristics” is a word to inspire fear and loathing among the non-technical. But actually, it’s one of the friendliest design-related concepts out there. This article suggests five heuristics for ensuring

Localize Your .NET Windows Forms Apps

ou never know when your software might be used by people who speak different languages. In a multinational company, branch offices need to share database applications. By localizing your product,

Install ADAM, the Secure Windows LDAP Service

ust about everyone implements a roll-your-own security mechanism for his or her software applications. I’ve done it, many software companies have done it, and I am sure you have as

Snapshot Isolation in SQL Server 2005, Part II

art I of this article (see “Snapshot Isolation in SQL Server 2005,” July/August, Volume 5, Issue 4) described the transaction-based SNAPSHOT isolation level. At the time Part I was written,

Sorting Custom Collections

ave you ever wanted to use a strongly-typed collection to bind your data presentation controls to, only to find that you have very limited sorting capabilities, if any at all?