The launch date for Visual Studio 2010 RTM is the 12th of April. This month there’ll be a Release Candidate (RC) and Scott Guthrie mentioned on his blog in a post about ASP.NET MVC 2 RC that it will be available soon. Now everybody speculates about the...

Oracle hat gestern einen Security-Fix ausserhalb der quartalsweise erscheinenden CPUs veröffentlicht. Dieser schliesst eine Lücke im im WebLogic Node Manager (CVE-2010-0073), welche remote ohne Authentifizierung ausgeführt werden kann....

If you are looking for a book that describes how to approach and carry out a performance testing project, don’t look further. Get a copy of The Art of Application Performance Testing: Help for Programmers and Quality Assurance (O’Reilly, 2009...

The Domain transfer of realfiction.net is almost through, which means that I say goodbye to the Drupal CMS and hello to Rf.Sites, my own codebase to publish stuff. If availability is gone at some point it means that the new nameservers are being propagated...

The short answer to this question is “yes”, it does. Unfortunately, the distribution costs are not externalized through the execution plans and, as a result, this limitation (yes, it is really a limitation in the current implementation, not...

The BASTA! (=Basic Days => in German Basis Tage) is “the” Conference in Germany about .NET. The BASTA! Spring is from 22nd to 26th February. I’ve two sessions there: one Wednesday (24. February) and one on Thursday (25th February). I’ll talk about...

The Event Delivery Network (EDN) in Oracle SOA Suite 11g provides a declarative way to use a publish/subscribe model to generate and consume business events without worrying about the underlying message infrastructure. Events can be published / subscribed...

Upgrading critical applications can be very difficult. One of the main problems is that for reasons of availability, long downtimes cannot be periodically scheduled. Therefore, for such applications, it is desirable to implement online upgrades. This...

In some specific situations the query optimizer is able to completely avoid executing a join even if a SQL statement explicitly calls for it. Two are the cases currently covered by this optimization technique, which is called join elimination. The first...

The Object to XML mapping functionality (OXM) has been moved from Spring Web Services project to the core Spring Framework with version 3.0 of Spring. Object/XML Mapping, or O/X mapping for short, is the act of converting an XML document to and from an...

I run into this rather “stupid error” a couple of times already. It’s very easy to solve, however it’s also very easy to do it wrong when configuring Oracle SOA Suite 11g Adapter services through the WebLogic Console. I hope this blog entry will help...

Today I searched for a solution to post source code using Microsoft Live Writer to my blog hosted on WordPress.com. WordPress itself has an integrated Syntax Highlighter supporting most popular languages. Details of how to use it can be found here. But...

Screen captures are important when blogging and having an easy way to capture images from the screen and embedding them into a blog entry is a key feature. SnagIt from Techsmith Corporation is a popular and very usable utility for taking such snapshots...

Domain Value Maps (DVM) are an interesting feature of Oracle SOA Suite for supporting Canonical Data Models. They help to map from one vocabulary, used in a given domain, to another vocabulary used in a different domain. For example, one domain might...