Follow-Up:Streamlining Testing, Trading Partner Integration, and Certification

For those that missed our most recent Webinar, you can find a recording embedded below. Some of the video qualityisn’t great, but the sound is quite clear. As the Webinar explains, HR-XML's forthcoming Version 3.0 release is informed by almost 10 years of industry contributions and is architecturally more consistent and robust than ever before. [...]

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Article :: Abusing and Misusing Wireless Cameras

Security expert Seth Fogie takes a look at exploits relating to a popular wireless surveillance camera.

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Article :: Introduction to Python 3

Mark Summerfield explains the structure and approach of his book, Programming in Python 3 and shows you how to install Python.

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Unpivot Table Sproc (3 lines)

CREATE PROCEDURE [TOPS].[UnpivotTable] ( @tableName AS VARCHAR(512), @whereClause AS VARCHAR(2000) = NULL, @commonColumns AS VARCHAR(2000) = NULL ) AS -- ========================================================== -- Author: Patrick Caldwell -- Create date: 2007/12/19 -- Description: this procedure unpivots data in a table -- [...]

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Article :: Master Data Management: An Introduction

This article introduces the concept of Master Data Management (MDM), the discipline to provide an authoritative source of trusted master data.

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A Table Valued Function to Split Strings

– the function CREATE FUNCTION SplitString (       @TargetString NVARCHAR(MAX),       @Delimeter NVARCHAR(MAX) )   – the part repository RETURNS @Parts TABLE (       PartId INT IDENTITY(1, 1),       Part VARCHAR(MAX) ) AS BEGIN         – just some variables to keep track of things       DECLARE             @CurrentIndex INT,             @DelimeterIndex INT,             @PartLength INT;         – initialize the loop       SELECT             @CurrentIndex = 0,             @DelimeterIndex =CHARINDEX(@Delimeter, @TargetString, 0),             @PartLength = @DelimeterIndex - @CurrentIndex;         – [...]

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Providing both Authentication and Anonymity

I was reading a little tgdaily today and I found an article about a new iPhone app that may be showing up in the app store in the near future. The new application is called Trapster and it’s a “social-networking speed trap warning website.” I know what you’re asking. Well, I don’t actually know [...]

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Article :: Software [In]security: Securing Web 3.0

Gary McGraw warns that we haven't yet solved (or even considered) some of the serious security issues involved with Web 3.0.

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