The Top 10 most popular items shared on the OTN ArchBeat Facebook page for the week of November 11-17, 2012.
Developing and Enforcing a BYOD Policy
Darin Pendergraft's post includes links to a recent Mobile Access Policy Survey by SANS as well as registration information for a Nov 15 webcast featuring security expert Tony DeLaGrange…
This is one in a series of posts on a Windows Azure Learning Plan. You can find the main post here. This one deals with what an Architect needs to know about Windows Azure.
General Architectural Guidance
Overview and general information about Azure - what it is, how it works, and where you can learn more.
Cloud…
Blog by David Read
Earlier today, Sushil Shukla, Yogeshwar Kuntawar, and I (David Read) delivered an OpenWorld session that covered BPM development best practices. It was well attended. Last year we had a session that covered end-to-end lifecycle best practices for BPM. This year we narrowed the focus to…
T4MVC is a fantastic solution to avoid 'Magic Strings' in ASP.NET MVC.
Thanks to David Ebbo for this contribution which has made its way to MVCContrib.
Must keep T4 template open and save it once.This has been the only negative thing about the template. I thought about writing an Add-In for VS to do this and even taked to David…
There have been two instances from the past two weeks that I've heard from well known successful game developers that they use spreadsheets when designing games.
The first being David Whatley in this GDCVault video:
http://gdcvault.com/play/1012372/From-Zero-to-Time-Magazine
The second being the guys that do Walled Garden…
There was a big event in Silicon Valley on Tuesday, November 15. Watson, the natural language computer developed at IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and its inventor and principal research investigator, David Ferrucci, were guests at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California for…
The comparison of extreme programming (XP) to traditional programming methodologies can find similarities between the historic biblical battle between David and Goliath. Goliath of Gath is a Philistine warrior renowned for his size, strength and battle tested skills. Much like Goliath, traditional methodologies are…
A new post Getting Started with the Coherence Memcached Adaptor from David
Felcey shows how PHP memcached calls can automatically be routed to
store data in Oracle Coherence 12c. This is possible now Coherence
12.1.3 supports Memcached clients using the Binary Memcached protocol.
David's post shows how the…
As countries around the world announce and begin their move to adopting IFRS what can companies learn from those that have already travelled this path? Nigel Youell, Product Marketing Director for Performance Management Applications at Oracle talks to David Jones, Director at PWC, who has worked with…
I've got mailings that need to be sended using cron. When I load the script manualy all works fine. With cron i get broken images.
to change the src of my img i used:
$body = eregi_replace("managersrc_logo","images/managers/acertainlogo.jpg",$body);
Because i thaught that it is importent to use…
Hi all
For one of my recent projects, I had to implement field change tracking. So anytime the user changed a value of a field, the change was recorded in order to allow full auditing of changes.
In the database, I implemented this as a single table 'FieldChanges' with the following fields:…
Hello,
I am recompling a project using Borland C++ Builder 6. The recompile process failed due to linker error. The message was:
"[Linker Fatal error] Fatal unable to open file ABCC.lib"
I removed all references of ABCC.lib in the project option and environment options, but the same error…
Hi,
I have an H2 database (http://www.h2database.com) and I'd like to insert a file into a BLOB field via a plain simple sql script (to populate a test database for instance). I know how to do that via the code but I cannot find how to do the sql script itself.
I tried to pass the path ,…
Hello,
I have multiple UIButtons in my app. I also use interfacebuilder. In my .h i have something like this
IBOutlet UIButton *button1;
IBOutlet UIButton *button2;
IBOutlet UIButton *button3;
- (IBAction)buttonPressed;
Then In my m i want to do something like this
…
I'm struggling with this probelm for few hours and it's drives me crazy. I want my drop down menu put over flash area and it works but only in FF. Unfotunelly IE and Opera shows my menu under flash.
The DHTML menu system is the simplest as possible and it was wrote…
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I'm trying to modify the fragment shader which is part of the standard iPhone/XCode OpenGL ES template. I want to make it so that every other row of pixels is transparent. I have this code so far:
varying lowp vec4 colorVarying;
void main()
{
gl_FragColor =…
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I've just implemented some code that emails a bunch of our clients with a CSV file attachment.
Some (not many) have got back to us complaining that they don't get an attachment at all - just the CSV text inside the body of the email. Most however are fine.
…
Hi, so here is my question in a situation if you will.
i have 6 items in div classes which correspond to 3 categories
something like this
class ="boat"
class ="car"
class ="bike"
class ="blueboat"
class ="redcar"
class ="greenbike"
so is there a jquery/javascript…
Hi - this is quite a basic OSX/cocoa question.
I come from an iPhone OS development background. I'm now trying to write apps for OSX, but I don't understand where cocoa on OSX decides where the program gets control.
I can see the main function, but where does…
Hello,
I'm trying to be able to drag random highlighted text or images on a random page that is not written by me, thus I cannot simply wrap the text in a div and make it draggable.
Is there any way to get highlighted text or images on a random page, like say…
Hi there,
I tried to use "dijit.layout.AccordionPane.selected" to determine if any given AccordionPane is in focus (selected). However, AccordionPane.selected property will be set to "True" once the AccordionPane is selected, and AccordionPane.selected stays…
I just right now "migrated" from C# to C++/CLR. First I was annoyed, that I had to write all class' declarations twice (into .h and .cpp). Then I figured out, that I could place the code also into the h-files - it compiles at least. Well, I deleted all cpp's…