IBM Redbooks | WebSphere Version 6 Web Services Handbook Development and Deployment: "This redbook is a rewrite of the redbook 'WebSphere Version 5.1 Application Developer 5.1.1 Web Services Handbook,' SG24-6891-01."

DW list Thu 3/3/2005: There's a system that does this with an open English vocabulary and precise English meanings. It's online at www.reengineeringllc.com, with a BI example called MedMine2. You can run the system from a browser, and experimental use is free. At the same site, there is a "Semantic Web Presentation" about the need for application semantics that explores some of this in more detail.

HOWTO - Use CVS: "Create CVS Repository, ..."

WeightWatchers: Weight Watchers Recipe - McIntosh apple braised chicken

Google Desktop Search Tips: "Move index file to a different drive, ..."

Zope.org - ReadOnlyAccess: "-z7 says to use a substantial level of compression, balancing CPU and network bandwidth, -q says not to spew about unchanged files, -P says to prune empty (eg, obsolete) directories, ..."

Microsoft's Lineup of SQL Server Webcasts for March 2005: "Introduction to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services" - 5 parts & more!

SQL Server User Group - PASS - 2005 European Conference: "Use the 'SSC05' code for a few gifts from the SQLServerCentral.com crew"

Microsoft SQL Server Resource Kit tools - 'Free' with MSDN and TechNet

Storage Pipeline | Intel Expands Pact With VMWare: "Intel's announcement with VMware, which comes roughly one month after AMD announced its would preload Xen open source virtual software on its AMD64 systems in the first half of 2005, promises availability of VMware's software for Intel's processor virtualization technology for desktop processors in 2005 and server proceesors in 2006."

Understanding changes in Yukon MDX Part I: "Slides can be downloaded from here: http://www.mosha.com/msolap/ppt/Yukon_MDX_I.zip. Additional material about MDX: http://www.mosha.com/msolap/mdx.htm. Additional material about Yukon: http://www.mosha.com/msolap/yukon.htm. Additional material about Analysis Services: http://www.mosha.com/msolap."

PocketAnalytix - OLAP on PocketPC: "can be downloaded from here: http://www.euroman.co.uk/pcktindex.html"

Preliminary 2004 OLAP Market shares are in - Analysis Services is #1 and widens the lead !: "Full analysis is as always at Nigel's site: http://www.olapreport.com/market.htm"

CRN | Breaking News | Microsoft Posts New Preview Of SQL Server 2005: "The new code drop, the first CTP since December, includes the new ActiveViews-based Report Builder and updated Management Studio features as well as 64-bit support, Microsoft said. The company also will post more Visual Studio 2005 bits to ensure that the recently released Visual Studio CTP works with this latest code..."

Linux.com | Creating PDF files with ps2pdf

Since "Pivot Table" tool in Microsoft Excel has some similarities with OLAP tools see: Microsoft Office Assistance: PivotTable reports 101 & Pivot Tables Tutorials in Excel Tutorials.

Les bases de données OLAP - OLAP Links, OLAP in practique, OLAP by example (START).

An excellent (and free!) review of available OLAP products: Articles: "SQL Server & Analysis Services, ANALYSIS SERVICES NOTES, ..."

MySQL Forums :: Data Warehouse: "What's the best way to implement table partitioning in Mysql: The merge tables feature will let you break data into separate MyISAM files. However, you won't get parallel scans. One of my colleagues has about 4TB of data stored this way and it's used heavily every day."

How Cheap is MySQL? (by Jeremy Zawodny): "... if you require certain features for your application like XA transactions, materialized views, table partitioning, cluster indexes...there are some very large or unique system that really do require this stuff. In this case, MySQL is just not an option. Unfortunately, for some tasks Oracle is one of the only options, and that is the only reason why they can still charge the prices they do. I'm a huge fan of both MySQL and Oracle having worked with both of them for a while now...they're great. However, I'm a bigger fan of the right tool for the right job."

CouJo's Portal - The official ImgTool Homepage - Download. See also: Burn DVD freeware DVD Burning .

MSDN Library: Using Partitions in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Data Warehouse. See also: Creating and Maintaining Databases - Creating a Partitioned View & SqlJunkies :: Exploring Table and Index Partitioning in SQL Server 2005.

Windows 2003 IIS Tutorials: How To Configure a Computer Running Windows Server 2003 As a Web Server & Creating and Configuring Web Sites in Windows Server 2003 & Setting up PHP to work on Windows Server 2003.

TechNet Virtual Lab: "Ever wanted to test Microsoft's newest software in a sandbox environment? Wouldn't it be great to be able to test new servers immediately, without formatting hard drives or dedicating one or more computers to the project? Now you can, with the TechNet Virtual Lab."

Visual Studio Core Community Powertoys

Help Index - Rogers Yahoo!: "Rogers Yahoo! Internet Help"

PRB: Windows Server 2003 Support for SQL Server 2000: "290211 INF: How to Obtain the Latest SQL Server 2000 Service Pack"

MySQL Replication and Synchronization : SQLyog - The most popular GUI MySQLFront End Admin Client Tool: "SQLyog Job Agent v4.0 (SJA) is a high-performance, multithreaded, multi platform application to automate and schedule Synchronization of Data between two MySQL hosts and send personalized mails with results returned from a query"

Synchronizing Your MySQL Databases Using a Free MySQL Admin Tool - SQLyog: "DST enables you to compare and work with different databases. Its color-coded side-by-side comparison makes it easy to pinpoint at a glance, similarities or differences between two databases. DST supports column and index comparison enabling you to quickly insert & drop columns and indexes. If there are any differences in the structure of a column/index, DST generates the correct scripts to apply those changes." - download SQLyog

Database Server Feature Comparisons (MySQL)

Factors in the Design and Development of a Data Warehouse for Academic Data

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine - Data Webhouse - reffered to in 2002 KIMBALL UNIVERSITY DESIGN TIPS (32-41): In the case of admissions tracking, prospective students progress through a standard set of admissions hurdles or milestones. We’re interested in tracking activities around no less than 15 key steps in the process, including 1) receipt of preliminary admissions test scores, 2) information requested (via web or otherwise), 3) information sent, 4) interview conducted, 5) on-site campus visit, 6) application received, 7) transcript received, 8) test scores received, 9) recommendations received, 10) first pass review by admissions, 11) application reviewed for financial aid, 12) final decision from admissions, 13) student accepted, 14) student admitted and 15) student enrolled. At any point in time, managers in the admissions and enrollment departments are interested in how many applicants are at each stage in the pipeline. It’s much like a funnel where many applicants enter the pipeline, but far fewer progress through to the final stage. Managers also want to analyze the applicant pool by a variety of characteristics. In this admissions example, we can be confident that there is a very rich Applicant dimension filled with interesting demographic information.

Table of Contents for FCSM Papers: "Using a Dimensional Data Warehouse to Standardize Survey and Census Metadata" [PDF]

O&O Services GmbH | Single-Sign-On on Linux using LDAP with Active Directory

Slashdot | Linux+Windows Single Sign-on: "interesting article on configuring Linux clients to utilize a single sign-on and play nicely in a Microsoft Active Directory network. The article focuses on Fedora Core 2 (and the Core 3 beta), but he has examples and instructions for SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional, Mandrake 10.1 and Xandros Desktop 2.5 on his website."

HOW-TO: Enabling Strong Authentication in JOSSO: "In this tutorial we use the OpenSSL cryptographic toolkit for managing X.509 certificates." - See also TheServerSide discussion thread: JOSSO Single Sign-On 1.2 Released.

Achieve Seamless Connectivity with Virtual Directories: "You don't have to recode to switch directory servers or enable partner organizations to request data from your directories. Virtual directories perform two-way translations, letting older applications continue working without modifications, and eliminating the hassles of interorganizational interoperability."

Install AD\AM, the Secure Windows LDAP Service: "AD\AM itself does not have a license cost associated with it."

Reporting Services Part I: Overview, Architecture and Installation - TIPS

Analysis Services Comparison: SQL 2000 vs. SQL 2005 - see also An Introduction to OLAP in SQL Server 2005 & Analysis Services 2000 vs 2005].

Introduction to SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services: Creating Our First Cube

Data Mining Reloaded: "What's new for data mining in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services"

Build Java Apps that Can Multitask: "The java.util.concurrent package in J2SE 5.0 provides a new thread framework for handling many of the low-level details associated with creating, executing, and managing threads."

Reports made easy with JasperReports - see also JasperAssistant Report Designer for JasperReports.

How to Debug with .NET - from Only4Gurus.com: "plethora of new features offered in Visual Studio .NET"

Reports made easy with JasperReports - see also JasperAssistant Report Designer for JasperReports.

TechWeb | e-mail rivals | EarthLink Takes On AOL, Gmail With Flash-Based Web Mail: "Enhanced Webmail is built using the Laszlo platform, which generates Flash-based applications."

Radified Guide to Norton Ghost by Symantec - A Tutorial on How to Create and Restore Ghost Images [PDF]

DVD Shrink: "software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc."

DAEMON Tools Homepage :: News: "included is a Virtual DVDROM drive (Generic DVD-ROM) enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD! DAEMON Tools works under Windows9x/ME/NT/2000/XP with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI) and supports nearly any CD protection."

Berkeley Lab Computer Protection Program: Resources: "Checklist for Securing Windows XP Systems"

.:: Windows XP Tips :: Dynamic Zone FX ::.

WebLogic Workshop Help

Authentication How-To's: "SAMBA 3.0 and OpenLDAP"

WindowsDevCenter.com: Building the Perfect Budget PC, Part 2

PHP5-Client for Yahoo's Webservice API - a programmer's best friend

O'Reilly Network: Yahoo! Web Services: "Now that Yahoo! has released a Web Services interface, my perception of them is changing. Suddenly having programmatic access to a good portion of their data has me seeing Yahoo! through the eyes of a developer rather than a user. Reading through the documentation on their new site for Yahoo! developers, I've suddenly realized that there is some impressive technology behind the services I took for granted."

WebThang Tutorials: How to Install IIS on Windows XP Home & Google Groups : microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general - see also Restarting IIS from the Command Line.

The Code Project - VS.NET System Requirements: "does not support creating ASP.NET Web applications or ASP.NET XML Web services when using Windows XP Home Edition"

IIS Tips Tricks & Resources - Articles - IIS 5.1 Articles - Running IIS on Windows XP Home Edition: "The specified module could not be found." - see also: Multidesk.be - Artikels : Hoe IIS installeren op Windows XP Home?

ASP.NET 1.1 on XP

doQuments Web Edition - Set Folder Permissions for IIS

HOW TO: Secure IIS in a UNIX-to-Windows Migration

How to set required NTFS permissions and user rights for an IIS 5.0 Web server

FrontPage - The CVSNT Wiki: InstallationTips - CVS Installation on Windows - Downloads - See book Open Source Development With CVS.

SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilities - The Experts Consensus: "Version 5.0 October 8, 2004" [PDF] ... U2.4 How to Determine if you are Vulnerable - Any default or unpatched web server installations should be presumed vulnerable. The best way to keep current on security issues for a given product is to consult that vendor's security information page. Examples of such pages include:

• Apache HTTP Server Main Page & Security Report (Includes links to ApacheWeek)
• Sun Web, Portal, & Directory Servers Download Center & BigAdmin Portal
• PHP Home Page and Downloads
• OpenSSL

Any vulnerability listed should be dealt with as soon as possible. The window of time between when a vulnerability is announced and a public exploit becomes available, and further when a worm abusing that exploit is released into the world, is growing ever smaller. To aid in the process of vulnerability assessment, one can leverage any one of several available vulnerability scanners, including Nessus and SARA (both open-source), or any of the Free Utilities or Commercial Scanners available from eEYE. Such scans should be run network-wide, to enable an administrator to gauge risk from known and unknown servers.

ONJava.com: Security in Struts: User Delegation Made Possible

A P R E S S . C O M | Books for Professionals, by Professionals ...: "Here you'll find selected titles that we are pleased to be able to offer you completely free of charge!"

CVSDude: "free CVS server and Subversion server"

Thawte Landing Page: "Welcome to Thawte's Test Certification Authority, where you can test-drive our server certificates - for FREE. Simply download a test server certificate and check how our system works for you."

Building Web Services that Produce Multiple Return Values

OpenXava: "framework to develop easily transactional applications with XML and Java." - see example application MySchool

Axis 2.0 - Axis2.0: "effort to re-design and totally re-implement both Axis/Java and (eventually) Axis/C on a new architecture."

Cascade Technology Group Writing: Apache Jakarta Commons - Download the code for the book, Hibernate: A J2EE Developer's Guide, Real World Web Services...

Jeeradej's Dictionary Lookup Extension Page: "Allow looking up definition of selected text from any dictionary web site that you define in the option page."

How To Set Up Client Certificates & WWW Security FAQ: Client Side Security - TIPS!

Web Security - TIPS!

Building Secure ASP.NET Applications [PDF] - Authentication, Authorization, and Secure Communication

Security Considerations for ASP.NET Web Applications - START!

Article: Aspect-Oriented Programming with the Spring Framework

Red-Piranha Search and Knowledge - Community Edition - Java J2EE Tomcat Lucene Xml Rdf: "Red-Piranha is an open source search system that can actually 'learn' what you are looking for. It lets you go everywhere , find anything , understand everything." - see Specification.

Introduction to Securing Web Applications with JBoss and LDAP: "The sample LDAP schema used here is built around the following entities: Users, Groups and Roles. In this approach, Users are assigned to Groups, and Groups are given Roles."

TheServerSide.com - How JAAS enables use of custom security repositories with J2EE applications: "The tutorial includes a sample implementation of an LDAP based LoginModule which is downloadable as jaastutorial.zip." Read more on JAAS here.

phpLDAPadmin: LDAP browser to manager your LDAP server listed on Google Directory: Internet > Servers > Directory > LDAP > Products

Acegi Security System for Spring: "Fast results: View our suggested steps for the fastest way to develop complex, security-compliant applications for The Spring Framework."

Chapter 11. Data Access using O/R Mappers: "Spring provides integration with Hibernate, JDO, and iBATIS SQL Maps in terms of resource management, DAO implementation support, and transaction strategies... Some of the the benefits of using Spring to create your O/R mapping applications include: To avoid vendor lock-in, and allow mix-and-match implementation strategies. While Hibernate is powerful, flexible, open source and free, it still uses a proprietary API. Furthermore one could argue that iBatis is a bit lightweight, although it's excellent for use in application that don't require complex O/R mapping strategies. Given the choice, it's usually desirable to implement major application functionality using standard or abstracted APIs, in case you need to switch to another implementation for reasons of functionality, performance, or any other concerns..."

iBATIS 2.0 Released: "I would say that Hibernate ORM is more convenient if you have developed DB schema simultaneously with application, but iBatis works definitely better if a project needs to deal with a bad (not necessary legacy ) DB schema... I am a happy user of iBATIS now. I went from JDBC to JDO to Hibernate to iBATIS and really think iBATIS is the simplest and most effective solution. It certainly lives upto its promise. I really don't see the reason for all the hoopla around ORMs... I found ORM (Hibernate, JDO, EJB) loses transparency and is limitting when you have performance needs or more complex apps, so iBatis like (SQL and relational ) DAO works better... "

The Java Community Process(SM) Program - JSRs: Java Specification Requests - detail JSR# 196

TheServerSide.com - Exploring J2EE Security for Applications using LDAP: January 2005; Discussion; References: Understanding LDAP - Design and Implementation, IBM Redbook, June 2004 & Implementing WebSphere security through LDAP: Security Tutorial, WebSphere Developer's Journal, May, 2003, Lou Mauget"

Google Directory - Computers > Software > Internet > Servers > Directory > LDAP

An LDAP Roadmap & FAQ -- Directory Services Information

Using the ACE Logging Facility

JSP tools (Coldtags suite): "Probably the largest collection of custom JSP tags"

Tomcat benchmarks: Here is an old article I wrote back in 2002. The numbers are old and out of date, but the comparison between pool vs non-pool on page 15 shows the difference... See also benchmark summary.

Shields UP! - Internet Vulnerability Profiling - COOLS!

opensourceCMS.com: "CMS Matrix"

Google Directory - Computers > Programming > Languages > PHP > Scripts > Frameworks

PHP first impressions from a J2EE programmer: "Reading between the lines, I also wonder if he might prefer a stricter error_reporting setting." See PHP Application Security & Web Application Component Toolkit - Web Application Component Toolkit (PHP Framework listed on Google Directory) & PHP Application Security - TIPS!

The Tomcat 4 Servlet/JSP Container - JNDI Datasource HOW-TO... "I remember you can configure tomcat to create a pool: The Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5 Servlet/JSP Container - JNDI Datasource HOW-TO. It still uses the vendor provided driver, so DBCP is just a wrapper"... see also DBCP Manual Pooling Driver Example & ONJava.com: Using the Jakarta Commons, Part 3: "Database Connection Pooling, based on the DBCP component."

Gathering Performance Metrics for Hibernate & Improving Hibernate's Performance from Hibernate: A J2EE™ Developer's Guide

Connection pooling with MySQL Connector/J

Oracle-on-Linux VMware Cookbooks: "Use the scripts below to install Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8) and Oracle Database 10g with Oracle RAC over your very own, handmade VMware Virtual Machine. These scripts will work unchanged on real hardware as well. For less adventurous souls, free VMware Virtual Machine Tool Kits are also available in RHEL3 and SLES9 flavors." & Oracle by Example - Oracle Database 10g on VMWare/RAC

Statistics over IT Failure Rate: "To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer." :-)

As far as job listing go on dice.com check out "SkillMarket - Languages - A daily look at in-demand tech skills": Java jobs: 8896, PHP jobs: 394, C# jobs: 2533

mySQL As A Data Warehousing Platform?

The Java Community Process(SM) Program - JSRs: Java Specification Requests - detail JSR# 223: "The specification will describe mechanisms allowing scripting language programs to access information developed in the Java Platform and allowing scripting language pages to be used in Java Server-side Applications."

IBM backs PHP. Un-named analyst makes a jab at Java: "Read more: IBM backs open-source Web software... I found a interesting site
"News, info, tutorial, resource from the Flash and PHP world". With PHP 5, I think we can not dismiss PHP and Flash sail up as a important contender to ClickOnce/Java Webstart in the RIA space... Cedric Beust for example PHP confessions from a Java fiend (Part 2 & Part 1). On the Tiobe index PHP is the fastest growing language of all (+3.02%), notice that it is more than twice that of Python. Java is down -4.22%... The whole idea of MVC is to separate the business logic from the data model and the view. With PHP you mix it together"