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Welcome, developers!
We've spent the last few weeks making a fuss over developerWorks'
10th birthday. (You have been paying attention, haven't you?) An impressive track record, sure, but it no doubt
elicits yawns from the UNIX crowd -- that operating system turned 40 this year. Naturally, a stalwart technology
like that deserves substantial coverage on our site, so our AIX
and UNIX zone is packed with hundreds of resources. (AIX, IBM's UNIX implementation, is 23 -- nothing to sneeze at.)
You can get your bearings with the New
to AIX and UNIX page or our AIX
and UNIX top 10 list. The zone's vast library includes Martin Streicher's new article, which shows you how Pipe
Viewer gives you a peek into command-line plumbing.
And as always, there's plenty more in store on developerWorks.
Take a look at this week's top features:
No, none of these technologies are anywhere near as old as UNIX, but I've learned not to judge anything based
solely on its age. Trust me, 40 is looking pretty youthful from where I stand.
Until next week,
John
Swanson and the developerWorks editorial team
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developerWorks Live! briefing in Lyngby: WebSphere flexible business processes
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IBM briefing in Zurich: XML integration from data to documents and everything
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This briefing provides an introduction and overview of XML, and covers the presentation functions
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Speaking UNIX: Peering into pipes
The pipe operator connects one
UNIX command to another to create ad hoc programs right on the command line. But a pipe is something of a black box, occluding
the data flowing from one utility to the next. Pipe Viewer provides a peek into the pipeline. Here's how to use it in day-to-day
tasks.
Peek into the pipeline >
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Resolving problems unmounting partitions
See how you can simplify
the traditional detective work associated with finding processes that prevent you from unmounting devices.
Simplify the detective work >
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Tutorial: Implement InfoSphere Master Data Management behavior extensions
Create actionable
master data by using the InfoSphere Master Data Management Workbench to implement behavior extensions for InfoSphere Master
Data Management Server.
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Using DB2 incremental backup
Learn how incremental backup works,
when you might want to use it, and strategies for ensuring smooth database recoveries. This article has been updated for
DB2 9.5.
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Use Informix 4GL to develop applications that support UTF-8 character sets
Learn about UTF characters and how Informix 4GL enables you to create database applications that support multiple languages.
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Which distributed edition of DB2 9.7 is right for you? (With a dash of DB2 pureScale)
Need to know what makes each edition of DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows unique? This article explains it all,
with references to interesting things that customers are doing with DB2. It also discusses the DB2 9.8 release that's the
shipment vehicle for the new DB2 pureScale feature.
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Compare the distributed DB2 9.7 data servers
A side-by-side comparison
table makes it easy to understand the basic licensing rules, functions, and feature differences between the various members
of the DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows server family.
Learn the differences >
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License distributed DB2 9.7 servers in a high availability environment
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Consume Web services using Informix 4GL
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Get started with Informix Dynamic Server user interface tools
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Update: DB2 and IBM's Processor Value Unit pricing
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to determine the processing capacity of a server. This article includes a number of helpful everyday examples, and is updated
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Use Sun SPOTs as your build canary
Craig Caulfield introduces you to Sun's Small Programmable
Object Technology, then shows how to use SPOTs as an early-warning system for CruiseControl builds.
Seeing SPOTs >
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Next-generation Linux file systems: NiLFS(2) and exofs
Linux is
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systems -- NiLFS(2) and exofs in particular -- and the advantages they offer.
Get to know NiLFS and exofs >
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Lotusphere 2010: Early bird price available until 20 November 2009
Lotus knows, in the face
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Build widgets in the Lotus Connections Homepage
This wiki article
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v1.0 and explaining the architecture of the Lotus Connections Homepage widget framework.
Read all about them >
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Troubleshoot WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management server hangs
This wiki article presents a troubleshooting guide for WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management server hangs,
explaining how to identify and isolate their root causes.
Start troubleshooting >
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Patching in Eclipse Galileo
Eclipse Galileo includes new features
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Get an overview of the method for creating and applying patches, and of the patch format used by Eclipse.
Learn to apply and share changes >
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New book: Software Test Engineering with IBM Rational Functional Tester
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Rational Build Forge and Rational Asset Manager integration: Automating the delivery
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Rational Publishing Engine introduction for DocExpress users
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Smart SOA Sage: Get the 411 on SOA
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Expose RESTful services using an Enterprise Service Bus
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DataPower.
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Virtual Spaces: Enabling immersive collaborative enterprise, Part 2
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and business challenges, tangible business results, and lessons learned.
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White paper: How to build a business case for BPM
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Tutorial: Superspy on yourself with Wireshark and Tomcat
How do you check security for encrypted
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Design patterns help you make sense of unfamiliar
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Put Web server logs to work for you
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Resource monitoring in WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition
WebSphere MQ File Transfer
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Migrating WebSphere MQ queue manager clusters from WebSphere MQ V6 to V7
Learn best practices for migrating WebSphere MQ queue manager clusters from V6 to V7 on both System z and on distributed
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Configuring Kerberos authentication in WebSphere Application Server Community
Edition
This article shows you how to use the IBM Java Platform Kerberos implementation and Microsoft Active
Directory Server to configure Kerberos in Community Edition, where it is not currently supported.
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Adapting to changing business needs using business variables and Business Space
in WebSphere Business Services Fabric
Use the new business variables and Business Space features in WebSphere
Business Services Fabric V6.1.2 to build adaptable business processes that let business users change the policy attributes
linked to those processes from Business Space.
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Tutorial: Using event processing in CICS, Part 2 - Processing CICS events
This tutorial shows you how to design a business scenario and apply event processing to business logic, and how to
send events to WebSphere Business Events using WebSphere MQ transport and JMS.
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Generate events for monitoring in WebSphere Business Monitor V6.2 from an Oracle
database
Use the Oracle Emitter, an IBM tool provided with this article, to extract business data from your
Oracle database and transform that data into Common Base Events that can be consumed by WebSphere Business Monitor V6.2.
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WebSphere Commerce V7 enables your company to provide a rich, customer-centric
experience across multiple channels and touch points
The new version of WebSphere Commerce is a market-leading
commerce and customer interaction platform. New enhancements enable you to implement a differentiated brand experience by
recognizing and responding to customer interactions across multiple channels and touch points.
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Event sequencing using WebSphere Process Server
This article describes
the importance of event sequencing in asynchronous applications, and shows you how to configure it for WebSphere Process
Server messaging transport. The article covers both development and run-time aspects of event sequencing on WebSphere Process
Server.
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Leverage pureXML in a Flex microblogging application, Part 3
Learn how to use pureXML
Web services to publish your microblog entries to Twitter, syndicate your microblog using RSS, and more in the third and
final article of this series.
Twitter on >
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Build a pureXML and JSON application, Part 2
Start with the pureXML
Universal Services for JSON and step through the configuration and testing to expose the JSON data described in Part 1 of
this series.
Configure and test JSON Universal Services >
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Build XQuery-powered apps with PHP and Zorba
Zorba is a robust,
open source, standards-compliant XQuery processor. Add sophisticated XQuery processing to your PHP/XML applications with
PHP's Zorba extension and its API to Zorba functions from within PHP.
Get started >
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Implement access control with Agavi
Agavi is a flexible, scalable,
open source framework for application development. Examine the Agavi API for user authentication and role-based access control
in this article.
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