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Leveraging pureXML, Part 3
In the third and final part of this series on creating applications that interact with an IBM DB2 pureXML database, you will use the popular PHP language to create scripts for publishing and syndicating the status updates in your database across the Web. First you...
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Leveraging pureXML, Part 2
In Part 2 of my developerWorks article series on creating a microblogging service, I show you how to connect to the Web services created in Part 1 from a Flex application. This application allows you to post new updates to your microblog database and see...
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Leveraging pureXML, Part 1
In the first part of this three-part series on IBM DB2 pureXML, I show you how to get started with pureXML on a DB2 Express-C 9.5 database. You learn how to create and insert XML data into a relational table, and how to query that...
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Site Review: Grab My Table
GrabMyTable is a new website that aims to provide visitors with access to customer reviews for restaurants across Dublin. It is elegantly designed and very simplistic in terms of what it displays to the visitor. Finding restaurants can be quite tedious however, unless...
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Beginning CouchDB
I recently posted a short blog entry about my forthcoming book on CouchDB. A lot of you have been asking me for more information about the book, so I decided to put together a page with much more detail about it. The book is titled...
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I’m writing a book
I'm delighted to announce that I have signed a book deal with Apress publishing (the black and yellow techie books). The book is on Apache CouchDB, an exciting document-oriented database management system that is in active development. I was approached by Apress about the prospect...
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Oracle acquire Sun
Oracle announced today that they are to buy Sun Microsystems at a valuation of $7.4 billion, or $9.50 cash per share. The deal is expected to be completed this summer. This announcement comes just two weeks after talks broke down in a similar deal between...
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Deploying Django
In this IBM developerWorks article, I investigate the Django web development framework - an excellent MVC-style framework for building dynamic web applications in Python. I look at setting up a Django development environment, discuss the key components of a Django web application and then discover...
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Exploring CouchDB
In this developerWorks article, I explore the concepts behind Apache CouchDB - an open source, document-oriented database management system. CouchDB uses a RESTful JSON API and JavaScript views to interact with and report on the data stored in the database. Unlike the relational model, the...
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