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Ready to Create Your IT Service Catalog?
July 24, 2005, 12:00am PDT
Adopting an IT catalog of services in alignment with an ITIL based Service Level Management process can optimize service provision to the business while reducing the overall costs of IT service...
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SharePoint: 10 Things You Wish They Had Told You, Part 1: SharePoint Customers and Developers Often Experience Common Problems; These Solutions Can Help
September 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper talks about five things from an architect or management point of view that one will probably end up wishing he had known before one started the SharePoint project. In part two of this...
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The ITIL Business Case 101
December 29, 2006, 12:00am PST
There is much discussion of which processes to start with in ITIL, or what order to do them in, or whether to do them at all, or how to decide. If the decision on which processes to re-engineer is...
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What Goes Into an ITIL Business Case
January 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper applies principles of business case design to a business case for an ITIL project. It is not executive management that a person needs to convince, not at first. The person should be...
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How to Set Up Successful SLAs
March 13, 2006, 12:00am PST
The Service Level Agreement (SLA) is one of the most critical parts - if not the key element - of IT Service Management. But as important as they are, they also can be complicated to set up. And...
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How to Produce an Actionable IT Service Catalog
July 18, 2005, 12:00am PDT
The ITIL framework is based on the concepts of Service and Customer Care, and the Service Catalog is at the core of these fundamental concepts. Many IT groups produce a Service Catalog as part of...
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Create a JSF Portlet With Oracle WebCenter Suite and JDeveloper
September 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A web portal is a collection of independent web components on a single page. These pluggable user interface components, called portlets, process requests and generate dynamic content from inside...
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IT Service Catalog - The Central Component of IT Governance
September 19, 2005, 12:00am PDT
IT Governance is now widely recognized as a critical success factor for managing today's complex enterprise IT environments. It has become one of the most popular buzzwords among IT executives and...
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Four Steps to a Successful DR Strategy
March 7, 2006, 12:00am PST
As often as not, disaster recovery expectations are unrealistic. Even with a well thought out Disaster Recovery (DR) plan, the ability of an organization to execute is suspect. The hope that DR...
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The Truth About Configuration Management and the CMDB
December 6, 2006, 12:00am PST
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) describes configuration management as a method for controlling infrastructure and services. Given the descriptions of configuration management, it can appear...
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The Benefits of a Single Point of Contact
August 10, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In ITIL, the service desk function performs a number of critical tasks. To say it is simply the traditional help desk renamed does not do the service desk justice. In many respects, the service...
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8 Steps to Better Incident Classification
September 7, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Incident classification and initial support and the activities carried out by service desk staff to determine how to work or route an incident for resolution. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)...
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Using Windows Workflow to Control ASP.NET Navigation
June 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes one simple solution for achieving interoperability between Windows Workflow (WF) and ASP.NET. It leverages the power of WF's powerful visual logic to design page-flow based on...
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Mastering the WPF RichTextBox
May 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The RichTextBox component in WPF/.NET 3.0 received a major upgrade compared to the previous version of the RichTextBox control that shipped with.NET 2.0. But with the expanded capability comes the...
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Choose the Right Web Services Security Solution
May 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Web services are designed to expose business functionality in an interoperable and loosely coupled manner. While they have the potential to reap the benefits of an SOA infrastructure, they also...
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Introducing Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0
May 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Off late Microsoft rolled out its next-generation Operating System (OS), Windows Vista. One of the core Vista components is a new version of Microsoft's web server - Internet Information Services...
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Converting Your Java App Into a Windows Service
April 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Reusing a framework usually is a good idea, but sometimes developing one's own code for a specific task is easier. Developing code to convert a Java application into a Windows service turns out to...
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Design Patterns for ASP.NET Developers, Part 3: Advanced Patterns
April 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the built-in support for standard design patterns in ASP.NET, and ways in which one can implement common patterns in one's own applications. The paper discusses more advanced...
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Microsoft Queuing Frameworks: SQL Service Broker Vs. MSMQ
March 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Microsoft offers two queuing frameworks to its 'Brand' of developers: MSMQ and SQL Service Broker. These two frameworks offer many of the same features, but differ in some important areas that...
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Enterprise 2.0 - Giving the Hype a Second Thought
June 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Internet boom forced organizations to get online and looking back it was much simpler compared to making an organization Web 2.0 ready because this involves understanding of an abstract...
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Effective Software Testing: An Approach to Better Products
December 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
The cost of fixing a software defect is cheaper if the defect is detected in the phase in which it was introduced. Yet in many projects of strategic importance, this testing is only an after...
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Offshore Considerations for Infrastructure Management
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Infrastructure management is increasingly offshored these days. Everest Research Institute predicts that remote infrastructure management will grow to $8.6 billion in the next three years with an...
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The 9 Requirements for a Successful SOA Deployment
February 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural approach that should be looked upon as a journey within an enterprise. Different enterprises embark on the SOA journey with different aims....
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Future Proofing Your Enterprise Architecture
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been promoted as essential for the longevity of IT investments. EA is based on sound principles, but its implementation must address not just...
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Charting a Web 2.0 Strategy
March 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wikis, blogs, social networks, AJAX rarely does a day go by without these terms being hurled at from different directions and this has resulted in these becoming mnemonics for Web 2.0. The...
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Redefining the Customer Experience
May 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
People begin by searching online for cameras noting the benefits of certain makes, models, features and prices. They follow up with a shortlist of cameras that they want to touch, feel and see....
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Explore the Data Access Options in Visual Studio 2008: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Give Developers Substantially Increased Data Access Options
November 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Visual Studio 2008 running on the .NET framework 3.5, developers can not only create DataReaders and DataSets; Microsoft has also added LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and ADO.NET Data Services,...
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Creating Simple Firefox "Add-Ons" With Ubiquity: Developing Add-Ons for Firefox Can Be Tedious, But It's Not Hard
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Making add-ons for Firefox is not hard, but development can be tedious, especially as there is no formal development IDE for making them (Venkman comes closest, but it's not very close). So, if...
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An Integrated-Documentation Tool for Oracle Databases
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In an ideal world, all software and database systems would have clear documentation that is always up to date. In the real world, however, documentation usually is either non-existent or so out of...
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Location-Based Services Using CellID
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Past papers have discussed how to interface with GPS receivers to obtain the geographical position of a device and then transmit the information over to a server for mapping purposes. However, not...
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From Delegate to Lambda: The Key to Understanding Lambda Expressions Lies in Understanding Delegates
October 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Delegates play a tremendously important role in developing applications for the .NET Framework, especially when using C# or Visual Basic. Events, a special application of delegates, are used all...
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A Spoonful of Governance for SOA
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Governance is one of those words that can strike fear into the heart of a software architect. Visions of endless meetings and committee reviews immediately give the developer that queasy feeling...
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Exploring Secrets of .NET Keystroke Handling
October 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Few areas in .NET are seemingly as simple yet deceptively challenging as processing keyboard inputs. This situation is exacerbated because neither the MSDN documentation nor any of the excellent...
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Extend SMS Messaging to the Desktop Using Windows
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
SMS messaging is one of the most common forms of communication. People send SMS messages everywhere - on the train, crossing the road, and even driving! While most SMS messages are sent on the go,...
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Ruby Comes to the .NET Platform: Find Out Why .NET Programmers May Want to Learn and Use Ruby, and Discover the Core Syntax of the Language
October 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Microsoft's IronRuby project brings a powerful and fun dynamic language to the Windows platform. The Ruby programming language is a modern, object-oriented scripting language, with a syntax...
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Extracting Meaning From Text With OpenCalais R3: Formally-Structured Text That Is Published Can Be Summarized and Combined With Other Text to Provide New Insights
October 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A big challenge companies face today is that most information, both online and archived, is only available as published text and does not contain any formal structure suitable for synthesizing. In...
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Use Explicit Conversion Functions to Avert Reckless Implicit Conversions
October 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The compiler invokes user-defined conversion functions (which are also called conversion operators) implicitly. In most cases, this process is well-behaved and intended. However, there are cases...
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Polyglot Programming: Building Solutions by Composing Languages
October 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Back in 2006, the author coined the term polyglot programming in a blog post. It is not a new concept (being at least as old as Unix and probably much older-the author just attached a modern term...
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"Supply Chain" SOA With SKOS
October 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The supply chain vision applies to the world of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Enterprise development. Historically, this software development approach yielded vertical silos where...
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eCryptfs: Single-File Encryption in Linux
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
If the user needs to share data in a Linux environment, some basic encryption solutions and practices will allow the user to do so in a very secure manner. Many tools enable data encryption in...
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Integrating AJAX Clients and RESTful Web Services
July 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
It is no coincidence that AJAX and RESTful web services gained the attention of developers in their respective stages of infancy. Both technologies emerged during times that were dominated by...
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Model-Driven Architecture Overcomes Limits of Traditional Object Modeling
November 30, 2007, 12:00am PST
Object-modeling methodologies have long held the promise of enabling development teams to deliver higher-quality software faster and with better code reuse. Sadly, traditional object-modeling...
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Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
The challenge of bringing data from efficient storage engines such as SQL Server into object-oriented programming models is hardly a new one. Most developers address this challenge by writing...
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Using the Smart Device Framework for Windows Mobile Development
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
If one has been developing Windows Mobile applications using the .NET Compact Framework for some time, there will be a day when one will realize that not all the functionalities one's need can be...
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The Google Web Toolkit's AJAX Recipe: Less JavaScript, More Speed
December 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
How popular is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)? Google claims their Java web development framework for AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications has been downloaded millions of times since...
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Working With Red-Black Trees in C#
December 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
Although Binary Search Trees (BSTs) are used widely, as data gets added, binary search trees tend to degenerate into an unordered linked list over time. The "Red-black tree" is a related type of...
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Resuscitate Your .NET Programs With the Application Recovery and Restart API
December 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Microsoft has gone to great lengths to help one make their software applications more appealing to users. One can create rich user experiences with Windows Presentation Foundation, smooth web...
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Drawing With Direct3D, Part 2: Lighting and Textures
December 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
In complicated scenes, displaying only specified colors can produce a poor result, because adjacent shapes that have the same colors blend together, making it difficult for viewers to discern what...
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Small Steps Lead to Big Improvements in Java Code Quality
December 14, 2007, 12:00am PST
So continuous integration is an important part of one's development process and one is eager to include a code-coverage check as part of the automated builds, but which coverage-rate targets...
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Working With Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
Poorly-written code and nonconformance to coding standards may get an application ready to ship a little more quickly, but often becomes a nightmare after application deployment. The answer is, of...
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Insulate Your Code With the Provider Model
December 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
Developers constantly face problems brought on by changing technologies. When Microsoft releases a new version of a data provider, or a customer decides to switch databases from Oracle to SQL...
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Caching With Weak References in .NET
December 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
To cache objects returned from a service, one can use one of several available mechanisms, the simplest of which is to reference the objects indefinitely. However, this approach ultimately suffers...
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Apply the New Vista APIs to Sidebar Gadgets, Part 1
December 31, 2007, 12:00am PST
Developing Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets generally involves a lot of JavaScript programming. To make it possible for Sidebar gadgets to access the various systems' information, Microsoft has...
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Manipulate XML Content the Ximple Way
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The latest Java version of the Virtual Token Descriptor for XML (VTD-XML) can function as a slicer, an editor, and an incremental modifier to intelligently manipulate XML document content. This...
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Apply the New Vista APIs to Sidebar Gadgets, Part 2
January 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
Developing Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets generally involves a lot of JavaScript programming. To make it possible for Sidebar gadgets to access the various systems' information, Microsoft has...
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Tracking XML Data Changes Easily With SDO
January 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
Tracking data changes is an essential requirement in many software, application, and business-integration scenarios. Rigorously implementing this requirement is relatively difficult because...
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XmlTransform - A General-Purpose XSLT Pre-Processor
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
The general-purpose XML transformer and/or validator discussed here, named "XmlTransform" operates on an arbitrarily deep directory tree containing files one want to transform. As output it...
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Add Custom XML Documentation Capability to Your SQL Code
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
If one has ever worked with sophisticated database systems or large applications one has probably accumulated sizable libraries of stored procedure code. Such libraries typically hold a few...
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What's New in C# 3.0?: Part 1
January 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has updated the C# language to its latest version, 3.0. C# 3.0 contains several key language enhancements that support the recently-announced...
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Fall in Love With Visual Basic All Over Again in Visual Studio 2008
January 30, 2008, 12:00am PST
Before reviewing the features individually, unlike previous versions of Visual Studio, where the version of the IDE was tied directly to a version of the .NET Framework, Visual Studio 2008...
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Apply IronRuby to Get Started Building Next-Generation UIs
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Ruby is a relatively new language with a large and enthusiastic following in the Web 2.0 world, primarily generated by Ruby on Rails (RoR). Ruby on Rails is a web framework intended for developing...
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C# 3.0 Syntax Additions - Design Guidelines
February 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
C# 3.0 includes a few syntactical additions to the language. For the most part, Microsoft added these language additions to support Language Integrated Query (LINQ). These features include (but...
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ASP.NET's New LinqDataSource Control Simplifies Data Access
February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Any user-centric application one writes will require some sort of data integration - at minimum, one will need to retrieve some data and display it in the user interface. Often, applications must...
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Real-Life Rails: Develop With NetBeans, Deploy on Linux
February 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Ruby language's conciseness makes it great for development - fewer lines of code means reduced development time and maintenance costs. Rails, the Ruby-based web application framework, can be...
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Use Specialty Arrays to Accelerate Your Code
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
Visual Studio provides arrays of any data type. One can make one-, two-, and higher-dimensional arrays of integers, strings, objects, structures, or whatever. But there are a couple of useful...
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MVP Corner: Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps Without ViewState or Postbacks
February 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
ASP.NET has been the odd man out in the web world. While one will find several MVC frameworks in the Java space, ASP.NET's default model has always been Web Forms. Ruby on Rails framework has...
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Tricks to Improve Your Brew Handset Debugging
February 27, 2008, 12:00am PST
Although on-target debugging is supported on many Brew-enabled handsets, one probably (paradoxically) spend most of their time debugging on older handsets that don't have on-target debugging at...
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Build a Shared Clipboard Utility in Python
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the Python shared clipboard - a little utility that allows different machines connected over a LAN to share the contents of their clipboards. While building it, one might learn...
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Building Executive Dashboards With Google Chart
March 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
With the advent of truly dynamic, web services-supported web experiences, more and more users are expecting dynamism and responsiveness from their executive dashboards and support systems. This...
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What's New in Visual Basic 9.0?: Part 1
March 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has also updated the VB language to its latest version, 9.0. In VB 9.0, there are several key language enhancements that have been made to support...
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Ubuntu Eye for the Debian Guy: Running Linux on Linux
March 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
The aim of this paper is to present my experience building and running two separate UML instances of Ubuntu distributions. For Debian users like the author, it can serve as a starting point for...
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Java RTS Real-Time Enables Financial Applications
August 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Standard Java has some deficiencies that make it less than ideal in the real-time world. (What Is Real-Time?). For one, the garbage collector (an internal JVM thread that reclaims old objects to...
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Building a Web Service Powered JSR 168 Financial Portlet
September 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
An increasing number of web applications built today use portal technology. A portal is a web application that typically provides services such as personalization, single sign-on, and content...
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Create a JSF Portlet With Oracle WebCenter Suite and JDeveloper
September 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A web portal is a collection of independent web components on a single page. These pluggable user interface components, called portlets, process requests and generate dynamic content from inside...
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Java Web Development the Wicket Way
October 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The web application frameworks available today offer a wealth of development styles. Well-known web development technologies such as JavaServer Faces, ASP.NET, and the Google Web Toolkit use...
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Creating Web Sites With ASP.NET 2.0
October 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
From basic, static HTML pages to totally data-driven and data-centric Web applications, the demands on a Web developer are much more complex and demanding than they were just a few years ago. The...
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Getting Started With Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005
October 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Creating reports is one of the most common things developers are asked to do when building a typical business application. Businesses want to know how well a product has sold, the sales total for...
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Picture SMS Using the .NET Compact Framework 2.0
October 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Off late the author was consulting on a Windows Mobile project where the client asked if it is possible to send images using SMS messaging. After searching high and low for a solution, the author...
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Create Your Own Mailing List Server With .NET 2.0
November 6, 2007, 12:00am PST
If one is a developer, chances are that one is no stranger to mailing lists. A mailing list contains a group of users who are subscribed to receive regular emails pertaining to a specific topic....
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A Flickr-Based Introduction to Ruby on Rails 2.0
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Rails web application framework became the perfect killer application for the Ruby language and an extremely powerful tool for rapidly developing web applications based on the CRUD (Create, Read,...
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