<b>BBC News:</b> "The controversial Digital Economy Bill has been passed into law during the wash-up period, which sees outstanding legislation rushed through before a general election."
MySQL's Latin-1 default encoding combined with MySQL 4.1.12's (or greater) UTF8 encoding allows the maximum number of characters codes, however incoming data with different character encoding can still present problems. Rob Gravelle shows you how to avoid problems before a lot of work is required to undo the damage.
MySQL's Latin-1 default encoding combined with MySQL 4.1.12's (or greater) UTF8 encoding allows the maximum number of characters codes, however incoming data with different character encoding can still present problems. Rob Gravelle shows you how to avoid problems before a lot of work is required to undo the damage.
<b>Thoughts on Technology:</b> "All I have to say is: Man was I blown away. What proceeded to run on my computer was quite possibly the most seamless non-distro specific package installation I have ever experienced."
Beginning with basic file I/O concepts this article wraps up by demonstrating how you can use the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) in .NET 4.0 to map text file data to objects.
Many articles on database administration take the perspective of trying to help you do your job better. We thought we might take a different tack and poke a little fun at some of more egregious mistakes we've seen over the years at IT shops.
<b>SilverWav's Journal:</b> "Reduce the notify-osd time-out to 3 seconds, rather than the default 10. Its amazing how much this changed my appreciation of the notifications... I have found the annoyance is mainly based on them being on screen too long"
Menus are basic components of any application. A well-designed menuing framework should be flexible, customizable for both look-and-feel and functionality, and easy to integrate into applications.
<b>Database Journal:</b> "For most of the Web era, Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) based on SQL have dominated the database landscape. But over the course of the last year, a new approach has begun to take hold known as NoSQL, offering an alternative to the traditional RDBMS."
Improve your CSS skills using .LESS, a free, open-source port of Ruby's LESS library. LESS (and .LESS, by extension) is a parser that allows web developers to create style sheets using new and improved language features, including variables, operations, mix-ins, and nested rules.
<b>Technology & Life Integration:</b> "Nevertheless there are a great many windows programs which run quite well, sometimes better, using the WINE developed libraries. Yet I sometimes wonder if it is too little too late."
Take a look under the hood of the latest version of Mono, the open source .NET development framework. Find out how its components and architecture help make developers more productive.