Article :: An Introduction to DataPower SOA Appliances

The authors explain what exactly SOA appliances are, how they are used, and how they are similar and dissimilar to traditional household appliances.

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Article :: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence: Where We Are, How We Got Here, and How to Fix It

IT has become the single-most visible point of latency when a business needs to change. However, it does not have to be this way. David S. Linthicum discusses how things got off track and how SOA and Cloud Computing can fix it.

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Article :: SOA Pattern of the Week (#6): Canonical Schema

Of all the patterns in the SOA design patterns catalog there is perhaps no other as simple to understand yet as difficult to apply in practice as Canonical Schema.

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Article :: Understanding HTML and XHTML Connections

Learn the various elements that must appear in an HTML file, including how to include all the HTML Tags that every web page must have, how to organize a page with paragraphs, line breaks and headings, how to validate your web content, and how to differentiate between HTML, XML, XHTML, and HTML 5.

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Article :: Regular Expressions in Python 3

Mark Summerfield discusses using regular expressions in Python 3, including Python's regular expression language and the regular expression module.

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Article :: Python's "New" Division: Python 2 Versus Python 3

Among the changes in the new version of Python is the way the division operator works. In this article, Python book and video author Wesley Chun explains how the math function has worked since Python was created and how it changes as the dynamic language moves towards the future.

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Article :: WordPress in Depth: Using HTML in Your Widgets and Blog

In this chapter, learn how HTML can be used in the WordPress.com environment. This is useful whether you just want to do a few simple things with your blog postings and the Text widget, or if you want to go much further.

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Article :: Exploring Drupal

Get a brief overview of the various Drupals (the project, the websites, and the association) and what they mean to you. You'll also see some examples of Drupal in action and get an overall look at how Drupal works.

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Article :: SOA Pattern of the Week (#7): Policy Centralization

The Policy Centralization pattern advocates that we keep a reusable policy in a single definition and have service contracts to which the policy applies, link to and share this definition.

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Article :: Exploiting phpMyadmin: How to Get root in 15 Easy Steps

Security expert Seth Fogie provides you with a real-world illustration of a how a simple overlooked account can lead to root access.

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Article :: Refactoring Ruby: Bad Smells in Code

Use this chapter when you're not sure what refactorings to do. Try to identify what it is you're smelling, and then go to the refactorings we suggest to see whether they will help you. You may not find the exact smell you can detect, but hopefully it should point you in the right direction.

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Lee Barney shows how to activate several desirable features of iPhone or iPod Touch devices from within your JavaScript application.

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Article :: Computing in the Cloud

Mark Edward Soper provides an introduction to the world of web-based apps: how to select them, how to use them, and how to avoid problems.

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Article :: SOA Pattern (#9): Enterprise Inventory

The Enterprise Inventory design pattern attempts to maximize the reusability and recomposition of services by proposing the development of services based on a single enterprise-wide service inventory.

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Article :: What Is a CMDB?

In this chapter, learn about the enigma that is a CMDB (Configuration Management Database), including answers to frequently asked questions.

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Article :: SOA Pattern (#8): ESB

The ESB is a compound pattern that pulls together many enablement and enforcement capabilities that come in handy to the SOA practitioner. Thomas Rischbeck explains it here.

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