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his article shows you how to publish XML documents in PDF using Apache Cocoon. Cocoon can create result documents in a variety of formats, including HTML and PDF. Cocoon’s popularity
ne of the more exciting open-source Java frameworks that has gathered steam in the last year is Spring. Spring aims to minimize dependency of application components by providing a plug-in
irst let me start by saying I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the eagerly-awaited DNN 2.0 officially shipped at the VS-Live! Conference on March
QL Server uses isolation levels to govern the tradeoff between consistency of transactions and concurrency of multiple users. As you raise a transaction’s isolation level, you also increase the chances
everal years ago I evaluated CiscoWorks as a network management platform, and was impressed. CiscoWorks is rife with features. In particular it had a few key features that I found
inding what you need in the Microsoft? Visual Studio? .NET documentation, which has over 45,000 topics, can be a daunting task. The Doc Detective is here to help, utilizing his
hen I began thinking of my own life as a loop, I did what all programmers do with loops; optimize it by reducing the amount of time that each thing
s a kid, I was fascinated with secret codes. After seeing the movie, “The Miracle Worker” (every kid in the 60s and 70s saw that movie at school, I’m sure),
common question I receive at the conferences and user group meetings I attend, is: “How do you find time to develop software with all your duties at CoDe Magazine?” My
am the host of .NET Rocks!, an Internet audio talk show for .NET developers online at www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks and msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks. My co-host, Rory Blyth (www.neopoleon.com), and I interview the movers and
n early 2004, Microsoft released a new set of extensions to SQL Server 2000 called SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. SQL Server Reporting Services provides a comprehensive platform for creating,
s a BREW developer, you’re probably intimately familiar with the process of writing applications, but perhaps not as familiar with the process of writing extensions. In BREW, an application is
he ability to run Java applications on Windows is a clear demonstration of the language’s interoperability, but it also has its drawbacks from the user’s perspective. Since most Windows users
n a world of distributed computing, the demand for smart-client applications is growing quickly. IT managers realize they must keep users happy—the user’s experience will make or break any application—while
Sometimes, you need to retrieve a concatenated string from one column of a table without using the cursor. To do this, you can use string aggregation. Here’s how: Create &
Extracting parameters from a file using regular expressions can be a very effective and practical way of doing things. Suppose, for instance, that you need a logon script that maps
Most Java programmers close a connection with the database directly?without closing the ResultSet or Statement. For example, take a look at the following code snippet: try { Class.forName( “sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver” );
The sizeof() operator gives you the number of bytes required for storing an object. It also operates on a data type or a value. Another way of determining the size
icrosoft recently unveiled the Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, which supports different screen orientations and higher resolution display for mobile devices. The new screen orientation capability means you can view
hen was the last time your boss dropped in to ask you for an update about your current project? For most people, it might happen once a week, but for
Let’s say your XML looks like this: default.aspx?ID=13 Now, you need to transform this tag via XSL to the HTML tag: . The following XSL will do the trick: new
first got interested in running PHP using the Windows operating system during a business trip to Toronto. I was staying with my cousin who, like many people, uses Windows exclusively.
f you need a way to search through various documents with differing formats (PDF, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets)?including Web content?use Oracle Text. Oracle Text has a powerful text-search
s developers, we often want to jump right in and start coding; it is our passion, and often our most comfortable way of looking at the projects we deal with.
ML is the de-facto language of business transactions. It enables structuring data. And the 2.0 version of the .NET framework, heretofore known by its codename, Whidbey, will finally enable you
here are times when database data manipulation requires extracting DDL (Data Definition Language) commands for various objects, such as database tables, indexes, constraints, triggers, etc. Recently I was charged with
s a developer, one of the most important tools at your disposal is your IDE. As a Java developer, there are several IDEs available?both commercial and open source?that are each
n the first article in this series, you saw how the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) specification and protocol work together to define messages, application programming interfaces (APIs), and
If a compiler supports both and , the headers are subtly different.In particular, if you include , you get the elements of the iostream library enclosedwithin the namespace std. If
The select statement below takes the name “george” and finds how many occurrences of “ge” appear within it. select (length(‘george’) – length (replace(‘george’,’ge’,”))) / length(‘ge’) countfrom dual/ COUNT———- 2 Using
