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Oftentimes, when I’m creating stored procedures, I forget to grant execute permissions to my user(s). Here is a stored procedure that will do this for you by simply passing in
n February, DevX Editorial Director Michael McCarthy and Editor-in-chief Lori Piquet sat down with four developers?two in the U.S. and two in Europe?to discuss the mobilization of the enterprise. Why
ith an estimated 100 million Java-enabled handsets on the market today?a number projected to grow to 1 billion by 2006?it’s clear that the opportunity for wireless developers is enormous. However,
isual Basic applications are becoming more connected, and developers are trying to Web-enable their applications by supporting HTTP or FTP. Often this requires using the Microsoft Internet Transfer control or
he Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.5 (codename: Tiger) has some language-level enhancements that Sun designed to make programmers’ lives much easier. This article takes a gander at some
String processing in VB is usually a very slow task. Often, people process strings letter by letter and construct a larger trinf afterwards from small bits. A better way would
The problem with the collection API is that you cannot put primitive data types into it. Instead, you must use their object counter parts. For instance, you have to use
Arrays are similar to ideas in mathematics. An array stores many values in memory using only one name. “Array” in programming means approximately the same thing as array, matrix, or
rench writer Victor Hugo once said, “We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.” Yet, when it comes
Suppose a class requires a “springboard” for calling a set of member functions which share the same signature. For example, the springboard might create some parameters to pass to these
This is required in B2B integration when one vendor logs into a system and upon validation a success message needs to be displayed and depending upon user’s request, the user
he Chain of Responsibility (COR) pattern is a behavioral pattern for decoupling requests from request handlers. It transparently routes requests to the appropriate handler and can (depending on the dispatching
wo major limitations in the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification make it difficult to develop multi-threaded EJB applications: New user threads cannot be created inside EJB Container. EJB methods cannot be
User language settings can be detected in one of the two following ways: Using the cultureinfo class current culture property: Using the request object’s userlanguages collection: Note: The UserLanguages collection
his article shows you how to automate the task of creating Python executables via py2exe using Python itself. I call the Python file containing the code makeExe.py. This technique requires
Boss, the open source, J2EE-based application server, has been a favorite of the Java community for a long time. But recently JBoss got a handy new toolkit, thanks to Eclipse—one
here are plenty of good reasons to anticipate Whidbey, among which are a number of enhancements for client script support, including new attributes and a ClientScriptManager class to handle client
San Francisco—“Resiliency” seemed to be the catchword today at the 13th annual RSA Security conference—and not just the resiliency of networks and applications to withstand an increasingly fierce and malicious
Do you have any DataGrids in your ASP.NET application with a CheckBox for each row? If so, you may have wanted a faster way to check or uncheck all items.
A given array of objects can be one-dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or n-dimensional. How can you tell? In this tip, the function getDim(Object o) takes an object and finds out it’s
The following code demonstrates how to initialize class members in the initialiser list for more efficiency: class A{int a;char b;float c;public: A();};A::A():a(0),b(0),c(0){}is more efficient thanA::A(){ a = 0; b =
Say you’re trying to overwrite an existing file, but its attribute is set to “Readonly,” so it generates a “Permission Denied” error. The following code shows how to change the
ou can verify that your Web-based Java application accepts the proper inputs from the HTTP request stream and displays the proper results to the HTTP response stream by performing black
DO.NET has a strong and powerful disconnected model that lets programmers build a Web of in-memory objects and relate contents coming from different tables and even from different data sources.
# has always had a reputation as a clean language with lots of innovation. The Whidbey-release of Visual Studio .NET ships with a new version of the C# compiler that
‘m a baseball fan. While I’d rather watch a game in person, more often than not, I’m watching it on the television. Something that you may not consciously notice while
he next version of SQL Server (code name Yukon) has extensive support for the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Previous versions of SQL Server (2000 and earlier) had a mechanism for
opular applications including ICQ, WinAmp, and Windows Media Player use skins to enable a user to choose another appearance for that application. The skins for those applications can be very
an’t find what you’re looking for? Just ask?if it’s in there, I’ll find it for you; if it isn’t, I’ll let you know that as well (and tell you where
ike many of you, I spend my days and nights building applications in Visual Studio .NET. I have been developing “real” applications in this tool for around a year and
