"Patch Tuesday" is looking like an easy time for systems administrators and PC support engineers when Microsoft releases its latest batch of bug fixes to the world next week.
"Patch Tuesday" is looking like an easy time for systems administrators and PC support engineers when Microsoft releases its latest batch of bug fixes to the world next week.
<b>IT World:</b> "Since we live in an entropic universe, things end. Heady stuff for a Monday morning, I will admit, but just keep drinking that coffee, you'll catch up."
XML has become a common form of representing and exchanging data in today's information age. SQL Server introduced XML-centric capabilities in SQL Server 2000. That functionality has been expanded in later releases. One aspect of working with XML is creating XML from relational data, which is accomplished utilizing the FOR XML clause in SQL Server.
Garry Robinson discusses some of the subtleties that you can apply to your database tables prior to upsizing your tables to SQL Server. In this article, I will show you how to fix up some of your Access backend before you make the conversion.
Discover how to combine the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural principles with the Java EE platform to derive multitier Java EE application architecture. You will also see how the Java EE design patterns catalog provides guidance and how you can document this architecture using UML notations.
<b>Fast Company:</b> "Groklaw is an attempt to get geeks and lawyers together, so they can help each other understand the other's world, with the goal of ideally getting better court results based on technical realities"
XBRL (short for eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based standard for handling corporate financial information. This article explains what XBRL is, provides an introduction to some of it's uses, and provides links to a number of XBRL related resources for you to continue learning about XBRL.
Presenting data visually can quickly reveal crucial trends. Learn how to use the Google Chart API in conjunction with PHP to create a variety of useful charts.
<b>Ksplice blog:</b> "Perl, never afraid of obscure shorthands, has accrued an impressive number of features that help with this use case. I'd like to share some of my favorites that you might not have heard of."
<b>Datamation:</b> "It's been a tough quarter quarter for Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) as questions about its future ownership remain on the table. Novell is also facing pricing pressure on its Linux business as renewals come up on Microsoft's SUSE Linux Enterprise subscriptions."
<b>Linux Journal: </b>"In preparation for this year's annual motorcycle trip, I purchased an Acer Aspire One Intel Atom N450 netbook. What follows are a few notes and suggestions for installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) 10.04 on this model."
<b>ZDNet:</b> "Google’s Android code will assume its rightful place in the Linux kernel — in good time, the company’s top open source guru says."
<b>The H Open:</b> "Mandriva began life in July 1998 as Linux Mandrake in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands."
Leaders of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs pledge to bring week-old cybersecurity bill to a markup next week, hope for passage this year.
Server Snapshot: Penguin Computing has always, as its name implies, focused on developing best practices for Linux-based systems, software and services, particularly in the HPC space.