Gone are the days when PHP developers had to turn away business because the clients used Windows Servers. If you are a PHP developer and have been looking for a cost-effective and easy way to begin developing web sites for clients on Windows, WebMatrix is your new best friend.…
Out of the box, WebSphere Lombardi Edition installation comes configured with a single federated internal repository that provides default groups and users for Lombardi environment. You can create new users and groups in the internal repository and use the users and roles as…
WebMatrix is a free web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for web site development. WebMatrix provides an integrated environment for building, testing, and deploying web sites. This integrated environment includes an embedded IIS web server,…
Recently heard the news about the launch of VMWare Spring Source Cloud Foundry: an open source “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) which allows easy deployment of applications written using Spring, Rails and other modern frameworks. The open source cloud deployment seems interesting,…
I was trying out the simplexml\load\file function for parsing RSS feeds on my hosting server using the following code- $rss = simplexml\load\file('http://naveenbalani.com/index.php/feed/'); and got the following exception on my hosting server - "URL file access is disabled in…
If you are planning to deal with XML data in PHP , for instance parsing an RSS feed or pattern matching (finding images or elements in an XHTML) , than probably you need an XML library which extracts the data for you. The SimpleXML extension provides a very intuitive API to…
I have been working on my travel blog for quite some time and finally managed to make it live at - <http://naveenbalani.com/travel/ . With the framework in place, I can easily add more contents to it. The blog -…
This is ongoing blog on Getting Started with Android(../index.php/tag/android/). In earlier blog(../index.php/2011/01/getting-started-with-android/), I provided an architecture overview of android application, followed by setting up the development environment for Android and…
This is ongoing blog on Getting Started with Android. In earlier blog, I provided an architecture overview of android application. In this blog, I would setup the development environment for Android and create a simple hello world…
I have been working for some time on creating my travel blog on word press. Here are some insights on my experiences on creating a travel blog on word press that you may find helpful - Selecting a theme for travel blog Wordpress offers numerous free themes, but finding the right…
Android is an open source development platform for mobile phones based on Linux, created by Google and Open Handset Alliance. The latest release of Android is 2.3. As a developer you won’t interact with Linux directly, instead you would use the Android application framework…
The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standard for modeling business process modeling. BPMN provides a set of graphical notations for modeling business processes. To model a business process flow, you can simply start of with modeling the events that starts the…
Recently, I updated my wordpress to latest version of wordpress 3.0.3. The latest version of wordpress (3.0 and above) provides support for multisite, so you could install multi blogs and manage this using a single wordpress database and install. Earlier this feature was…
If you are looking to get started with web services development, these series of my blog should provide you enough details with tutorials on how to go about developing web services. - Introduction to JAX-WS - Create…
This is an ongoing blog to Web Services development. In my previous blog(../index.php/2010/11/jax-ws-stack-for-developing-code-first-web-services/), I talked about JAX-WS framework in detail and how to create code first and contract web services. In this blog, I would describe…
This is an ongoing blog to Web Services development. In my previous blog(../index.php/2010/11/jax-ws-stack-for-developing-code-first-web-services/), I talked about JAX-WS framework in detail and how to create code first and contract web services. In this blog, I would describe…
In this blog , I would provide an introduction to MQSeries messaging and triggering concepts. 1. Basic MQSeries messaging concepts Queuing Queuing is the mechanism by which messages are held until an application is ready to process them. Queuing allows you to: - Communicate…
This is an ongoing blog to Web Services development. In my previous blog, I talked about JAX-WS framework in detail and how to create code first web services. In this blog, I would describe how to create Contract…
Java API for XML Web services (JAX-WS) is a technology designed to simplify the construction of web services and web service clients in Java. Before looking at the API’s and features offered in the JAX-WS stack, let’s understand the need for a web service stack. As web services…
In my previous blog, I provided an architecture overview of the Spring framework. In this blog, I will follow it up with a simple example of using IOC using Spring. The complete source code for the application is available for download…