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Volume: 11, No. 12; March 22, 2006 _____________________________________________________________

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Highlights of What's New on the Site This Week

** Take Charge of Desktop Integration with Java SE 6 by Gautam Shah With the release of the Java Standard Edition 6.0 Beta, Java developers no longer need to contend with clamp-on solutions or Java Native Interface (JNI) to make their applications interact with desktop products and features. These desktop-integration features now are part of the core.

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** Against the Browser's Will: Make Mashups Talk Across Domains by Dan Theurer With all the great Web service APIs out there today, making mashups to extend public Web-based apps is a new passion for many developers. But cross-domain restrictions, built into all major browsers, are an aggravating foe. Learn to use a PHP proxy or JSON to eliminate your mashup frustrations.

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** Playing Multimedia Using BREW's IMedia API by Ray Rischpater and Chris Haseman BREW has supported multimedia presentation from the start. Now, its new IMedia interface makes taking advantage of BREW's rich support for audio and video playback easier than ever.

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** Speed Up Your SQL Inserts by Alex Kozak Traditionally, database performance has been represented by the speed of data retrieval, but that is not always the case. In some situations, database performance relies on the speed of data inserts.

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** Detecting the Properties and Limits of Numeric Datatypes by Danny Kalev Each built-in datatype in C++ possesses different properties, all of which contain a wealth information important to the design of your application. Find out how the <limits> library can help you programmatically access this critical data.

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** Data Binding in Windows Forms 2.0 by Wei-Meng Lee Windows Forms 2.0 increases support for data binding via the new BindingNavigator and BindingSource objects, which will save you a lot of effort. Find out how you can perform sorting and searching tasks using data binding and simplify the display of master-detail relationships in tables.

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** Book Excerpt: Python Essential Reference, 3rd Edition Updated to reflect new features available in Python 2.4, this edition covers new-style classes, iterators, generators, metaclasses, decorators, and related topics, and expands coverage of the Python library, XML, logging, and email. Find out about Python's built in functions and exceptions and how to do high-level file handling.

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Featured Downloads and Tutorials

** Intel/TopCoder Challenge: Showcase Your Multi-threading Skills for Cash Prizes TopCoder Hosts the Intel Software Network Multi-threading Challenge. This is your chance to compete with your peers for the title of Threading Champion and put a little extra cash in your pocket at the same time. The next challenge runs from March 22 through April 5th--don't miss out!

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** Webcast: Enabling XML and SOA Applications with DB2 Viper April 19, 2006, at 11 AM EST. Attend this Webcast and learn about XML application development for the upcoming DB2 Viper. You will also learn about how to work with XML data in DB2 Viper through XQuery and SQL/XML using various development environments (Eclipse, .NET, etc.) and programming languages (Java, C/C++/C#, PHP, etc.).

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** Download: Visual MainWin v1.7 for J2EE Developer Ed. (a.k.a. Grasshopper) This freely available Visual Studio .NET plug-in from Mainsoft delivers ASP.NET and .NET server applications for Linux and other Java-enabled platforms. Use C# and Visual Basic.NET to code, develop, debug, and deploy Web applications and Web services that run on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and other Java-enabled platforms. Grasshopper supports single source code development, so you can develop an application that will compile and run on both .NET and Java-enabled servers.

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Discussion Highlights--Newest Posts ** Can a Service Delay the System Shutdown? http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bff,1,hpye,7p4o,2ezm,3q9m

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** Help Creating a Website http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bff,1,higz,qlh,2ezm,3q9m ** Binary Search Tree--Help with the Pseudocode? http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bff,1,8dc2,9l79,2ezm,3q9m

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Elsewhere on DevX ** Using Flex as a Cross-Browser Solution The wide variety of available Web browsers is great for the end-user, but often not so great for developers. See how Flex, Flash, ActionScript, and AJAX work together to create a terrific cross-browser solution.

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** Web Seminar Series: SQL Server 2005 for Developers Presenter: Bill Lodin<br> Microsoft's substantial remake with SQL Server 2005 brings hefty new capabilities to enhance performance while streamlining management. Plus, if it's good enough to help power the Olympic Winter Games in Torino, your customers will be asking for it as well. Join us for this nine part Webinar series.

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** Simulate a Production Environment During Development with Converged Communications Technologies Avaya's AES-CM Simulator can save your company big bucks by allowing you to test your voice applications in a production environment. See how using converged computer and telephony technologies to provide a test bed for telephony applications makes all the difference.

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** Webcast: Managing Government Regulatory Compliance and Standards Risk This Rational Software Development Platform Webcast will explore how you can: build apps that meet compliance mandates, develop an audit ready development infrastructure, and ensure effective IT oversight with IBM Rational solutions.

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** Demo: WebSphere Developer for zSeries (WDz)--Service Flow Modeler Learn to quickly implement a new CICS application and expose that app as a Web service in two different ways and then learn how a business analyst can model a workflow which will implement a specified Web service definition, and more.

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** Beyond Electrostatic: Reach Out and Touch a Tablet As the Tablet PC platform expands to encompass touchscreen-based devices, developers and UI designers need to understand the unique usage characteristics of those tablets.

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