Interesting thing happened on my way back from lunch yesterday.

They're filming "Ugly Betty" downstairs and as I walked by the trailer, I noticed a door that said "Please Knock." So, I walked up the stairs...

It's that time of year again, so you'll permit me some promotion of two events that allow us to sketch our architectural position and spend some time sharing and getting your input on our product road map. Two events to talk about here:


October 1st - Seattle, WA – October 2nd...

Our very own Eric Schaumlöffel presented the latest on Actional at Codecentric's Friday meeting. They've written up a short blog-post which I'd like to comment upon briefly. Actional doesn't...

A funny thing happened to me last night. Why do funny things always happen when I have time to think?

I was manually copying over birthdays from my Exchange calendar to a Google calendar. Pretty brainless work so my mind was wandering. And, I realized... if I were a little less careful and...

A recent and rather simple question.

I have two sequences, let's say 1,2,3 and 2,3,4 and I need to get the items that exist in both, in this case 2,3

One could think to use the...

What's the big deal you say? Well, we now have the best client-side application failover of any JDBC drivers. It makes Oracle TAF look like a toy. To start with, we do not require that you use an expensive server-side technology like Oracle RAC, DB2 HADR, or Microsoft Clustering. Although not...

In the recent research note “Hype Cycle for Web and User Interaction Technologies, 2008”¹, published 7 July 2008 (Gartner document ID Number: G00159447),  Gartner provides a comprehensive analysis of user interface technologies for the Web throughout the Hype Cycle² stages: from Technology...

Guest blogging once again for Jonathan, this is Mike Frost with part 1 of my series on Heterogeneous Data Access in .NET - Coding Directly to ADO.NET

Before I begin though, I should make a comment about the reason for this series. After many conversations with .NET developers and with...

Publishing data as XML... What did you expect, of course that such topic needs to be handled in a series like XQuery for the SQL Programmer. Despite the enormous usage of XML throughout most application...