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- Static Checking of Dynamically Generated Queries in Database Applications
- Many data-intensive applications dynamically construct queries in response to client requests and execute them. Java servlets, e.g., can create string representations of SQL queries and then send the queries, using JDBC, to a database server for execution. The servlet programmer enjoys static checking via Java's strong type system. However, the...
- Tags: SQL, Servlet, University Of California, Servlet Programmer, Programming Languages, Java, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary FlakeThe Live products keep getting betterI am a Microsoft programmer who does web and normal programming. The web programming tools are getting better and better. But, Popfly is an example of the way that the web can be used for both programming and for...
- Tags: Channel management, PRODUCTIVITY, Web, Popfly, tool, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatmentWell, Duh.....Anyone working in the tech field can provide many examples of this activity. The financial services company where I work is almost completely outsourced to Indian vendor company workers, over here on H-1B's. Additionally, many of us here have trained the very people...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Litigation, Outsourcing, H-1B, worker mistreatment, mistreatment, job, worker, fraud
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Where are all the programmers?
- Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...
- Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- AzSQL Decryptor (exe)
- AzSQL Decryptor is an SQL object decryptor. It allows you unravel a single encrypted sql object or an entire database full of stored procedures, triggers, views, and user defined functions with simplicity and blinding speed. Its user-friendly interface allows for easy viewing of encrypted code of any size and complete...
- Tags: SQL, AzSQL Technology, AzSQL Decryptor, Programming Languages, Databases, Storage, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
- Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
- The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that...
- Tags: FBI, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Operation Cyberslam, Gembe, Federal Government, Government, security, botnet, cybercrime, DOS, attacks, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-10-06
- Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for security
- Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for securitythat's still an NDABeing able to "discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications" is not "dropping the NDA". There is still an NDA in place, it simply is a little less restrictive. People still can't write books about it, publish...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, security, iPhone NDA, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Semantic guardians for our computers?
- Semantic guardians for our computers?ActuallyNo, I built my PC's using components I selected that were manufactured here on good ol' terra firma. I don't experience crashes since I use Linux and am not afflicted with malware issues.Also I selected the hardware components and matched them. Maybe I am just lucky......
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, Processors, Semantic Guardians, programmer, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Apple drops iPhone developer NDA
- Apple drops iPhone developer NDAAbandoning the Titanic?I know three small outfits that have almost completely dropped development of iPhone projects to jump on Android now that there's a real product. I'm sure many others are sick and tired of Apple's perpetual chokehold and want to move to a better situation.Planned...
- Tags: Development tools, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., NDA, iPhone developer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Thanks, but no thanks, SASSome good R linkshttp://www.johnmwillis.com/r/are-you-using-r/openIntelTry openIntel, a free data model offered by OSEd ( http://osed.com ). IT is free and it includes documentation explaining it, the tables and the relations. It was designed by Maurice Frank, the original creator of the IBM Insight at...
- Tags: SAS Institute, data model
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Yesterday I wrote about some data analysis I need to do. It turns out, there is quite a lot of analysis that needs to take place, along with fairly serious data management, especially as we start to relate MCAS scores with other data (SATs, special education testing, socioeconomic data,...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Why yes, I can do longitudinal data analysis
- Because I'm not really all that busy sarcasm drips here, it's fallen to me to figure out what is happening to our MCAS scores. For those of you outside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MCAS is our battery of standardized tests in English, Math, science, history (the list goes...
- Tags: Data Analysis, School, Clinical Trial, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Does HIMSS hate open source?
- Does HIMSS hate open source?Our Health Care System is Broken in So Many Ways.I have no doubts that before our Health Care system is fixed if it ever will be, a million years in life will be lost. What a horrible waste. I would rather not be a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, open source, Does HIMSS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome
- Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's ChromeWhat to do?I can find loads of information on what it is this vulnerability can do. But as a user what can I do to minimize the risk of this happening to my machine?www.GetFirefox.comReally, why even bother with Chrome, especially when there are solid...
- Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, DoS vulnerability, vulnerability, DOS, exhaustion, Google Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Thoughts on Microsoft Response Point
- Thoughts on Microsoft Response PointPolitics of ProgrammingWhat has been so hard about being articulate and clear to the end user? Why, to this day, are arcane and obtuse references constantly popping up on Windows machines? It's a legacy of obfuscation that has come from a programming culture. This culture has...
- Tags: Development tools, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., programmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Would you use an all-in-one PC as your HDTV?
- Would you use an all-in-one PC as your HDTV?Watched the packer game on the computerStreaming video worksWell for me....Personally I like having a normal TV say a 52" HDTV connected to a normal PC running Media Center. That way you can watch recorded TV, photos, even surf the net...
- Tags: TVs, Media Center PCs, TV & Home Theater, TV, HDTV, Sony Corp., Media Center PC, PC-A
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?
- CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?How is the curriculum ...... the responsibility of the IT director? Shouldn't you stick to supporting what the educators determine is the appropriate curriculum.RE: CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?A bug in a drawing is going to be more obvious than a bug in...
- Tags: Development tools, CAD, programming
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- A tribute to Pop
- It's been a rough week up here in our neck of the woods. Sure, global financial markets are collapsing, Sarah Palin's email got hacked, the wars in the Middle East show no signs of ending...You get the idea. However, for us, we've been taking care of my wife's...
- Tags: Teacher, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
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