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On-Demand Webcast: Five Virtualization Trends to Watch Produced for HP, Citrix, and Intel
Take a look at five hot trends as virtualization moves mainstream. You'll learn how virtualization is shifting from point products to solution portfolios, delivering applications to the desktop, moving beyond server consolidation to enable more dynamic datacenters and serving as the foundation for some forms of cloud computing. Watch it now. Click here.
Article: What Does it Take to Build the Best RIA? With the proliferation of Rich Interactive Application (RIA) platform choices out there, you no longer have to take a one-size-fits-all approach to developing your next RIA application. Knowing the strengths (and weaknesses) of each platform can help you to decide the best RIA for your next application. »
Faster and Friendlier Access to Oracle's OCI API By Victor Volkman - Published 05/13/2008 Why get bogged down in the quicksand of the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) when you can get the same service with less code and fewer headaches with Vincent Rogier's OCILIB?
Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack: MFC Enhancements By Nick Wienholt - Published 05/12/2008 The Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack incorporates C++ language changes that move C++ closer to the upcoming C++0x standard. The new language elements build on the powerful features of the C++ language, and include support for regular expressions, function objects, and a number of new STL containers as well as many other new features. Review some of the new language features, and see how they can be incorporated into C++ applications.
Enterprise Java Contract-First vs. Contract-Last Web Services By Vlad Kofman - Published 05/08/2008 Discover two different ways to implement SOAP web services. The methods discussed here can also use either RPC or Document style implementations, and can significantly differ in development and maintenance efforts.
Working With Design Patterns: Chain of Responsibility By Jeff Langr - Published 05/07/2008 The chain of responsibility pattern allows you to emulate a real-life chain of command. In a chain of responsibility, a request moves from handler to handler until someone is able to manage and return it to the client.
Highlighted Tutorials Using Connection Pooling in ADO.NET By Bipin Joshi -
Learn how ADO.NET connection pooling works and how to configure it to suit your performance requirements.
Libxml2: Everything You Need in an XML Library By Victor Volkman -
Got XML files? Look no further than libxml2, which gives you both DOM and SAX model XML parsing in a single freeware library that works with most common languages in all popular platforms including Linux and Win32/Win64.
Working With Design Patterns: Facade By Jeff Langr -
Object-oriented languages provide great opportunities to isolate complexity in a system. A facade buries an unwieldy interface behind a simplified one.
Telling Time with Ruby By W. Jason Gilmore -
Walk through many of the immensely cool things you can do with Ruby's Time class.
OP-ED: Fixed-Price Software Projects, or, The Quickest Way to a Financial Calamity By Paul Kimmel -
Successful software projects have to begin with the premise that a fixed price, time, and project that is accurate may be a fantasy because there are too many unknowns—people sometimes being the worst offenders. Fix a time and price to what can be fixed and pay for what must be paid for.
The 4C Architecture Blueprinting Process By Jeff Ryan -
City plans and zoning boards. Building codes and inspectors. These concepts are quite familiar in the field of urban planning. Do they really apply to enterprise architecture? Read on to learn about creating your own city plan using the 4C architecture blueprinting process.
.NET Tip: Return File Contents as a String By Jay Miller -
What do you do when you need to read in an entire file and process it as a string? Here is a simple solution.
Introduction to the MIDlet User Interface, A First Look By Richard G. Baldwin -
Learn the fundamentals of user interfaces for MIDlets, how to instantiate user interface components, how to cause them to become visible on the cell phone screen, the difference between a Screen and a Display, and much more.
New on Codeguru Creating a DockablePanel-Controlmanager Using C#, Part 7 Published 05/15/2008 By JonnyPoet - Going on to design a dockable panel, discover some very interesting techniques, such as hooking the mouse and how to debug an application in such cases. Learn to unpin a docked panel so it slides to the border of the main application.
Implementing a Simple 2D Object Tracker Published 05/14/2008 By OlegK - Learn how to combine four image alignment algorithms (Lucas-Kanade, forwards-compositional, Baker-Dellaert-Matthews, and Hager-Belhumeur) into a 2D object tracker with dynamic templates and template pixel weights.
Setting Up Unit Testing in Microsoft VSTS 2008 Published 05/12/2008 By Paul Hacker - Discover how easy it is to add unit testing to your Visual Studio 2008 projects with the built-in tools.
Coding Unit Tests in Microsoft VSTS 2008 Published 05/12/2008 By Paul Hacker - Paul shows you how to write the code for unit tests in your Visual Studio projects. (This is part 2 of Unit Testing with VSTS)
Use STA COM Objects Asynchronously Published 05/12/2008 By Wong Shao Voon - Learn how to use STA COM objects asynchronously without blocking your main thread.
The RIA Run challenge is designed for you to showcase your knowledge of Silverlight 2 to the world — and potentially win prizes for it. By taking advantage of such Silverlight 2 features as layout manager support, two-way data-binding support, control template and skinning support, and core form controls you can show the world what you can do.
