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Living the “Least Privilege” Lifestyle: Don’t Run Every Day Logged In as an Administrator

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

“>I recently spoke at several software developer user groups around the countryand made this asserti

Agile XML

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

August brings a change in my day job responsibilities; along with it comes with a certain amount of disruption, including a stretch of time away from reading the mailing lists. Judging by the popularity of columns like XML-Deviant, many readers are in similar straits. Even high-quality lists like XML-Dev require a [...]

Building an XML-based Metasearch Engine on the Server

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

In my last articleI showed you how XML can make life for metasearch engines so much easier.I set up a scenario where two database driven address directory sites (called"All Addresses" and"Best of Addresses")allowed access to their data through a simple query interface. But in addition to aregular search engine user interface they also returned results [...]

Managing Files and Folders in Windows Vista

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

“>What You’ll Do Use the Explorer Window Change the Explorer Window View Open and View t

Developing Wireless Applications with WAP, WML, and JSP

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Consultant and JSP author Chad Darby delivered a light overview of a hot topic to a packed room at XML DevCon in New York on Monday, "Developing Wireless Applications with WAP, WML, and JSP.""How many of you have cellular phones with you?" he opened the session. More than half the people in the crowd of [...]

Modeling XML Vocabularies with UML: Part I

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

A Russian translation of this article is available here.The arrival of the W3C’s XML Schema specification has evoked avariety of responses from software developers, system integrators, XMLdocument analysts, authors, and designers of B2B vocabularies. Somelike the richer structure and semantics that can be expressed withthese new schemas as compared to DTDs, while others complain aboutexcessive [...]

CCNP Self-Study: Understanding and Implementing Quality of Service in Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

“>This chapter covers the following topics:Identifying Network Requirements and the Need for Quality

XML and Web Sites

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

In the USA this week’s calendar includes Halloween: a time when spooks,zombies, and assorted denizens of the realm of the undead are said to walkthe earth. It seems an appropriate moment to tackle one of the mostgruesome questions recently posted to the oreillynet.comXML forum.How do I build a Web site using XML?Q: I need help [...]

Using AJAX to Build a Web Site Indexing Application with Prototype

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

(Page 1 of 4 )One of the best ways to take advantage of the numerous features that come packaged wit

XML at Five

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

The XML 1.0 Recommendation turned five years old this Monday, 10February. Since February 1998 XML has grown and developed, vastlyexceeding all initial expectations. During those five years, XML.com hasfollowed the XML world tirelessly, publishing nearly a thousand articlesand becoming a forum for the heart of the XML community itself.To celebrate this auspicious anniversary, I asked [...]