PUBLIC MARKS from BlueVoodoo with tag programming

DB2 Express has the same properties as MySQL and PostgreSQL, however, Express-C is free! Read up, and find out how easy it is to migrate from MySQL/PostgreSQL to DB2.

Solutions including IBM Rational ClearQuest for System i and IBM Rational ClearCase for System i provide a strategic advantage over competitive offerings for managing software resources and application development processes. Find out the most useful Software Change Management (SCM) solutions for source code management.

This tutorial highlights basic features of Rational Performance Tester. Practical, hands-on exercises teach you how to record automated performance tests, use data-driven techniques to ensure randomization, play-back tests, and evaluate real-time performance reports.

File upload is a basic function of today's Web portals. In this article, you will learn how to develop an Ajax-based file upload JSR 168-compliant portlet using DWR (Direct Web Remoting).

If your UNIX system lacks a tool you need, chances are you can find an apt solution in the enormous inventory of software available online. This month, learn how to build software from source code.

No software is bug free, and application users can encounter unexpected results during the run time of programs. To analyze and find the cause of problems, logging is a method widely used by programmers. In this article, learn how to use a ring buffer for efficient logging with memory operations in place of file operations.

This second half explains how Mylyn's context management facilities make multitasking easy and reduce information overload when you're working on large applications in Eclipse. Part 1 introduces Mylyn's task management facilities and integration with repositories such as Bugzilla.

Now in release 2.0, Mylyn (formerly called Mylar) enhances productivity by seamlessly integrating tasks into Eclipse and automatically managing the context of those tasks as you work. Part 1 introduces Mylyn's task management facilities and integration with repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA. You'll learn how context management eases multitasking and reduces information overload in Part 2.

During this day-long technology briefing from IBM, you'll see demos of the hottest technologies and participate in interactive breakout sessions - a large part of the content will be driven by you and the other attendees as we go along!

Google Maps API along with DB2 or Informix, PHP, JavaScript, and XML let you create an easy-to-use map with your data on it. Use custom icons, change the map type, create a sidebar, and use event handlers. Once created, manage your mashup data cache. Also, be sure to check out how you can use new Web 2.0 tools, principles, and practices in your company.

In this article, discover how to track several events on AIX(R) with auditing, a major feature of AIX security, and learn how to use auditing to keep track of the read and write operations on a file. Also examine commands, such as ls or istat, to check a file's time stamp.

This tutorial, the fifth in a series, shows you how to manage and manipulate the shape your Emacs session—examine how to partition the Emacs screen, create multiple X client windows for a single Emacs session, and display multiple buffers in each window, dividing the screen with horizontal and vertical divisions.

Part 1 of this two-part article on Eclipse rich-client performance covers the basics of measuring an application's performance, applying instrumentation techniques, keeping the UI responsive, and using Jobs to avoid threading mistakes. This second part takes a look at memory usage and how to chase down memory leaks.

Expect is an indispensable tool for efficient system and network management, and it's also widely misunderstood. In this article, find out the benefits Expect provides in common use cases.

In this first installment, you'll learn how to measure the performance of Eclipse-based Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications, determine if slowdowns are caused by CPU or I/O bottlenecks, and keep the UI thread idle to maintain responsiveness. Part 2 will address memory problems.

In this tutorial, learn how to set up your system to develop a simple Web application with Wicket, using Apache Geronimo as your application server and Apache Derby as the embedded database.

Configuration can be a maintenance mess and add to a developer's burden. This article introduces a framework with which developers can define their application's configuration in terms of high-level interface.

You might get a thrill out of writing Ajax applications, but unit testing them is surely painful. In this article, Andrew Glover takes on the downside of Ajax (one of them, anyway), which is the inherent challenge of unit testing asynchronous Web applications.

Discover how to use appropriate disk placement prior to creating your logical volumes to improve disk performance. This part focuses on monitoring your logical volumes and the commands and utilities (iostat, lvmstat, lslv, lspv, and lsvg) used to analyze results.

Join IBM developerWorks Live! for this complimentary briefing to hear how to shorten time to market of new software systems without compromising quality. Learn how best practices and tools can keep your testing teams aligned with business priorities.

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You can now evaluate IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V7.0 without installing it on your own system! Visit developerWorks to learn more about this product and register to explore its capabilities online.

Take charge of your editing session within Emacs and use it to your advantage. This tutorial is the fourth in a series, and shows you three areas of Emacs that control some aspect of the editing session: various command-line options, the register, and bookmark facilities for setting and saving positions and data.

Now that real-time Java virtual machines support scoped memory, defining common patterns for scoped memory usage can improve developer productivity. These patterns reduce the need to understand or work with scopes directly by providing scopes' core functions with less complexity. Also, check out the rest of the Real-time Java series.

Rational Asset Manager helps improve individual and team productivity and accelerate project delivery by enabling you to modify, govern, find and facilitate reuse of any type of development assets, including SOA and systems development assets.