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Apache Geronimo on Grails
Do you want to build your Web sites faster and cheaper, but still leverage industrial-strength technology? You can do just that using Grails and Apache Geronimo. In this article, you will see how easy Grails can make Web development and how easy Geronimo can make Grails deployment. Also see how a Grails application can leverage the resources and services provided by Geronimo.
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BladeCenter QS: Maximize Memory Performance
Compare the CBEA processor memory access model (with a BladeCenter QS21 and QS22 focus) with that of general purpose processors access models for maximum memory performance. Also learn how to use the Cell Performance Counter tool when monitoring memory access activities for tuning and debugging memory performance.
04 July 2008
Create Professional-Looking Reports with BIRT
Eclipse-based Business Intelligence and Reporting Technology (BIRT) provides extensive interactive charting and other advanced features to allow report developers to create professional-looking reports. The tutorial will show you how to use BIRT report designer to create a set of sample sales-analysis reports step by step.
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03 July 2008
Build Web Services with PHP in Eclipse
Learn how to build Web services in PHP using the PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in in Eclipse in three easy steps. First, become familiar with the PDT project, and learn how to create and deploy useful PHP projects. Second, learn the philosophy behind contract-first development. Finally, get an informative overview of the basic parts that make up a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.
01 July 2008
Build Ajax Applications with Ext JS
Ext JS is a powerful JavaScript library that simplifies Ajax development through the use of reusable objects and widgets. This article introduces Ext JS, showing how to use the Ext JS framework for rich Internet application UI elements, and provides an overview of the object-oriented JavaScript design concepts behind it.
30 June 2008
Easily Track Intrusion Attempts on Your Web Site
Detect intrusions, and prevent attacks from ruining your Web designs and application programming using Snort, a free and open source NIPS and NIDS tool. In Part 1 of the series you installed Snort and made sure it could detect packets. Now, in Part 2, learn what the data means inside these packets, and how you can use that data to infer whether attacks are occurring and alert system administrators to those attacks.
27 June 2008
Migrate Device Control Apps from Windows to Linux
Ease the pain of migrating device control applications from Microsoft Windows to Linux. In this article, we analyze how device control works in both operating systems, examining everything from architecture to system calls and focusing on the differences. The authors outline these differences and give you a C/C++ migration sample.
Create a pureQuery Application using Spring
Spring is an open source Java/J2EE application framework that offers higher level data access features like transaction management, resource management, and Data Access Object hierarchies. This tutorial guides you in creating a pureQuery application that uses the Spring Framework's Data Access features.
25 June 2008
Managing the PlayStation 3 Wi-Fi Network
In this article learn step-by-step how to configure and encrypt the built-in Wi-Fi network that comes with the Cell Broadband Engine-based Sony PlayStation 3. And, as a little bonus, get 16 quick steps that explain how to switch from a wireless network back to a wired network on the PS3.
The Zend Framework V1.5 and Google Part 1
In this three-part "Create a productivity package with the Zend Framework V1.5 and Google applications" tutorial series, we will build an application with Zend Framework V1.5 that uses the Google applications. Explore the various features of the Zend Framework in Part 1, which outlines the many new features in V1.5 that we will take advantage of to build an example Web site.
23 June 2008
Enhance Lotus Domino with DB2 Integration
Learn how to use DB2 as a data store for Lotus Domino data. This article uses a sample application to describe four possible usage scenarios for the Lotus Domino and DB2 integration features in pure Lotus Domino applications.
21 June 2008
Make Your Grails Mobile Phone Friendly
The number of cell phone users worldwide is at 3.3 billion and rising, and Internet access from mobile phones is on a rapidly upward trajectory. In this Mastering Grails installment learn how to make your Grails applications mobile phone friendly. Developing for the mobile Web as hits unique demands, but after this article you will be well on your way.
20 June 2008
Five Maximum Performance Tips for SDK 3.0
In this blog about programming with BLAS, discover five tips to gain maximum performance for the IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration 3.0. These five tips will let you leverage maximum performance from the BLAS library.
18 June 2008
Six Ways to Write More Comprehensible Code
As a developer, time is your most valuable resource. These six tips on how to write maintainable code are guaranteed to save you time and frustration: one minute spent writing comments can save you an hour of anguish. Learn how to keep you code from destroying you.
Debugging PHP using Eclipse and PDT
The PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in, when installed with Eclipse Europa, gives you that ability to quickly write and debug PHP scripts and pages. PDT supports two debugging tools: XDebug and the Zend Debugger. Learn how to configure PDT for debugging PHP scripts and discover which perspectives you use when taking closer looks at your scripts.
17 June 2008
Parallelize Applications for Faster Linux Booting
One of the biggest complaints about Linux is the speed with which Linux boots. By default, Linux is a general-purpose operating system that can serve as a client desktop or server right out of the box. This article shows you how to increase Linux boot speed, including two options for parallelizing the initialization process.
13 June 2008
Speaking UNIX Part 8: UNIX Processing
On UNIX systems, each system and end-user task is contained within a process. The system creates new processes all the time and processes die when a task finishes or something unexpected happens. In Part 8 learn how to control processes in UNIX and use a number of commands to peer into your system.
12 June 2008
Anatomy of Linux Journaling File System
Journaling file systems used to be an oddity primarily for research purposes, but today it’s the default in Linux. Discover the ideas behind journaling file systems, and learn how they provide better integrity in the face of a power failure or system crash. Learn about the various journaling file systems in use today, and peek into the next generation of journaling file systems.
11 June 2008
Use XPath to Select Portions of XML Documents
XML is a data format concerned primarily with compatibility and flexibility. This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals of XPath. Part 1 of this tutorial details the XPath specification, which allows you to specify particular sections of an XML document using a directory-like syntax. You'll learn the syntax of XPath, and you'll work with tools that let you experiment with XPath.
10 June 2008
DB2 Best Practices for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
Discover the best practices for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Each of the Best Practice papers is designed to provide practical guidance for the most common DB2 9 product configurations. By applying this knowledge you can improve the value of your DB2 data servers.
07 June 2008
Protect Your Data at Rest with Linux
There are a number of data protection mechanisms already built into your Linux system that you may not be taking full advantage of. This paper provides some concrete advice on how to use Linux system mechanisms to protect data at rest and to vastly improve your organization's resistance to data leaks.
05 June 2008
Install Java 5 EE on openSUSE Linux Part 1
This demo shows how to extract and install the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) SDK that is bundled with IBM WAS CE on the openSUSE Linux platform. It also highlights key parameters required to configure a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in the .bash_profile, and how the default JVM and WAS CE installation enables access for multiple users.
04 June 2008
Porting Applications to Linux for System z
Server consolidation based on Linux for System z offers advantages, but moving existing applications requires some specialized knowledge. In this article, get general advice on how to organize your porting project, including technical details on mainframe virtualization, byte-ordering, and address calculation specific to System z.
03 June 2008
Install WAS CE V1.x on Linux
IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) is an open community application server based on the Apache Geronimo open source application server. Learn how to install the WAS CE V1.x on Linux x86 environments for use by multiple users, or a Windows environment as well.
02 June 2008
Ajax Web Components using JSTL and JSP Tags
Learn how to build custom JSP tags with dynamic attributes to facilitate rapid application changes. This article shows how to use JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and JSP tag files to implement data binding, page navigation, and style conventions, which make both development and maintenance easier. The last section of this article contains an example that uses Ajax to submit a Web form.
