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DBAs take great pride in providing reliable database services to their organizations. It comes as no surprise they are very stressed when the database is blamed for performance issues or application outages. This article shows you how to provide a real-time graph of database status to reduce false accusations, identify problems for rapid resolution, and avoiding the political blame game.

Get an overview of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol- (LDAP) related enhancements in the AIX 5L operating system V5.3 TL5 update. This lets clients configure and manage multiple systems with a single set of user identity configuration information, and it simplifies system administration.

This article demonstrate how you can start to implement Atom-enabled applications using a new open-source project, called Abdera, currently under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. Its a good article showing you some tricks with its Feed Object Model, XPath and XSLT support, extension handling and incremental parsing model.

Examine key parts of the Z shell (zsh) and how to use its features to ease your UNIX system administration tasks. zsh is a popular alternative to the original Bourne and Korn shells.

Rich Internet Applications is the new buzz-phrase for Web 2.0, and a key component of the substance behind Web 2.0 is Adobe Flash. Take a break and have some fun with learning how to create Rich Internet Applications, integrate Adobe Flash movies into your applications and generate Flash movies dynamically with the Ming library.

The first 10 years of XML were only the beginning. This article Takes a good look at the future of XML. XQuery and native XML databases will be very, very hot. Also pay attention to anything called Web 2.0. Yes, it's hype; and yes, if you asked four speakers at this conference how they defined Web 2.0, you got six different answers; but there's a lot of reality behind the hype. XSL-FO and XForms will be more important next year and developers will start to build impressive systems with them.

Its well known that Ruby on Rails provides an excellent platform for building Web applications, but did you know how well it works with Ajax? This article takes you through the steps of building a Rails web application and then dives right into using Ajax features to give your application the Web 2.0 rich user interface experience.

This article, the second installment in this series, shows you how Apache Geronimo, JNDI, and Java Message Service (JMS) resource groups interrelate.

JavaScript is often ridiculed as the black sheep of programming languages. But JavaScript is becoming increasingly important. See why it remains the most broadly available scripting language for Web development and a better choice for developing modern applications.

Performance testing is usually left for last in the application development cycle -- not because it's unimportant, but because it's hard to test effectively with so many unknown variables. In this month's In pursuit of code quality, Andrew Glover makes the case for performance testing as part of the development cycle and shows you two easy ways to do it.

This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations.

This article begins your journey of writing Java applications that work with the Apache Derby database.

In Part 1 - An introduction to StAX you can learn about how StAX has become the latest standard for processing XML in the Java language. This article is very popular and has recieved 305 diggs thus far. Part 2 of StAX'ing up XML, you can delve deeper into the event iterator-based API and explore its benefits to Java developers. In the final article of the 3 Part series, you'll see how to create custom event classes and use them to process XML with the event iterator-based API.

The classpath is one of the most complex and infuriating parts of the Java platform, but mastering it is essential to becoming a professional Java programmer.

Ease your system administration tasks by taking advantage of key parts of the Bourne-again shell (bash) and its features.

This article provides a step-by-step procedure for migrating Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++ (MSVC) projects to Eclipse. Along the way, we compare and contrast the benefits of using MSVC and Eclipse CDT.

This article outlines an approach you can use while tackling memory leaks, and it discusses how to take advantage of the MALLOCDEBUG tool that is supplied with AIX.

Trinidad offers a set of complimentary components that will further enhance the interface of your JSF application.

Check out several methods for offline servicing of long-running jobs in your PHP application.

In Part 5 of this series, let's look at a handful of techniques that can help keep explosions of files under control.