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Learn how to quickly move your Web services, Java, J2EE, Web, and portal applications from design to deployment by preparing to take the IBM Rational Application Developer certification Test 255.

Find out about some of the capabilities that have been built into Eclipse plug-ins, such as the ability to program in other languages like Ruby or to build interactive multimedia with environments such as OpenLaszlo.

There are many situations when you might need to know where someone is at any given time. This article introduces one of the most popular scenarios for RFID technology -- people tracking. Learn about the challenges of tracking people, the devices used, and what hardware and software are needed to implement an RFID-enabled people tracking system. This is a companion article to Lightweight RFID Framework and Greenlight your RFID System.

The problem is that the Web is still mostly populated by the scary legacy of poorly structured HTML, much of it not even compliant to the more lenient SGML standard. XHTML is a friendly enough format for parsing and screen-scraping, but the Web still has a lot of messy HTML out there. In this tip Uche Ogbuji demonstrates the use of TagSoup to turn just about any HTML into neat XHTML.

This article shows you how you can interact with Lotus Domino databases from Web applications created in the PHP programming language. Learn how to access Domino applications from PHP pages using a COM object, the Lotus Notes API, and XML.

This article -- focusing on the database developer role -- presents the basic data types you can use to store data in an Apache Derby database.

Since OpenLaszlo's open source announcement, many developers have been using OpenLaszlo to create user-friendly rich Internet applications. When you complete this tutorial, you'll be proficient in OpenLaszlo and Apache Derby database.

The the new Open Ajax Initiative realizes the tremendous importance of introducing new tools to a growing community of Ajax developers. It is dedicated to building an open platform in which developers can collaborate. This article discusses two existing run-time tools, Dojo and Zimbra.

Learn how to use the capabilities of the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) to convert application log files into a structured format.

Viper is the code name for the upcoming release of DB2. Viper is a leading edge hybrid data server capable of supporting both relational and pure XML storage and provides all the necessary services to support both data structures.

The find command is one of the most powerful and useful commands in the UNIX programmer's repertoire.

The C programming language is a fine language that many of us hold dear. But it's not necessarily the right solution for every situation, and it certainly isn't the fastest way to create one of the most common classes of applications today: end-user-oriented graphical user interface applications. Discover options for accelerating your GUI development with GTK+ language bindings.

This article introduces the TeraGrid, the National Science Foundation grid that is currently the largest set of public high-end computational resources in the United States. It describes the motivations behind the project and briefly introduced some of the challenges inherent in managing a large geographically distributed grid. It also explores the advantages TeraGrid offers the scientific community.

Examine how to use the Network Information Service (NIS) to make UNIX and Linux work together, and how to use the Network File System (NFS) to share file systems, both with direct links and through the automounter.

If the Web 2.0 revolution has one buzzword, it's Ajax. Learn to create an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) client-side slide show that's animated using Ken Burns Effects. It shows you how to build XML data sources for Ajax, request XML data from the client, and then dynamically create and animate HTML elements with that XML.

Find out how to write extensions in code for other plug-ins while not creating a binary dependency on those other plug-ins with the Eclipse V3.2's dynamic-extensions API. Accomplish all of this and more with the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) services API and the dynamic APIs.

Be nice to your computers and examine some general guidelines for tuning server performance. A computer is like an employee who does tasks for you -- it's a good idea to keep from overburdening them. One way to keep this from happening is to carefully tune the processes that run on it. The UNIX nice command is useful for doing just that.

This tutorial show you how to use the Image_3D package and practical applications of 3-D graphics.

What are all those little orange RSS buttons and XML buttons you see everywhere including the site you are on right now? Why do you see code when you click on them?

Of most interest to developers are UML modeling, design patterns, and UML-to-code transformations. After completing this tutorial, you will know how to create a UML model, apply a design pattern to that model, and, finally, transform the abstract model into actual code.