Browsing posts in the ‘developerWorks’ category
Tutorial: HTML5 & CSS3
Since the World Wide Web emerged in the early 1990s, HTML has evolved to become a relatively powerful markup language, which, when backed up by its close partners JavaScript and CSS, can be used to create visually stunning and interactive Web sites and applications. This...
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Compare JavaScript Frameworks
Modern Web sites and Web applications tend to rely quite heavily on client-side JavaScript to provide rich interactivity, particularly through the advent of asynchronous HTTP requests that do not require page refreshes to return data or responses from a server-side script or database system. In...
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CSV data with Python/pureXML
This tutorial is geared towards developers who want to learn how to store data in XML format in a database, connect to DB2 from a Python application, and learn how to convert data from CSV files into XML documents. No prior knowledge of Python is...
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Store Locator in ASP.NET
This tutorial is geared towards developers who want to learn how to store data in XML format in a database, connect to DB2 from a .NET application, and learn how to develop applications that leverage mapping APIs. To follow this tutorial, familiarity with the .NET...
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Alerts using XMPP/SMS
This tutorial is aimed at Web application developers who want to develop database-driven applications that are powered by an IBM DB2 pureXML database. The reader should be familiar with basic PHP code and be able to work with the Windows command prompt in order to...
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Knowledgebase using PHP
One of the most useful and versatile technologies available in IBM DB2 is its native support for XML data through the pureXML feature. PureXML allows you to store, retrieve, and manipulate XML data alongside and in the same manner as relational data. This enables you...
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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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