With GCC 4 comes a new optimization framework (and new intermediate code representation), new target and language support, and a variety of new attributes and options. Get to know the major new features and their benefits in this article.

With PHP's object-oriented (OO) language features, if you aren't already creating your applications with OO principles in mind, these seven habits will help you get started in the transition between procedural programming and OO programming. Building good OO habits in PHP helps you build more stable, easily maintainable, and more easily extensible applications.

HACMP Smart Assist validates the applications before getting them configured. This involves some preparation work for applications that are to be integrated with HACMP. This article documents the steps to enable DB2 applications for HACMP.

The Web has increasingly become a medium for showing off art. From candid snapshots taken by an amateur photographer to professional art galleries, Web pages are primary vehicles for displaying images. But a beautiful image is hindered—or aided—by its frame. Using a simple JavaScript library, you can "frame" your online images beautifully and provide an intuitive user interface along the way.

This article looks into "new" features in the classic java.lang.Math class in this two-part piece. Part 1 focuses on more purely mathematical functions. Part 2 will explore the functions designed for operating on floating-point numbers.

At some point in their careers, most systems administrators need to interact with an LDAP server. This article shows how LDAP can be used for Apache authentication, as well as how to perform CRUD, or Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations on an OpenLDAP database, using the Python module python-ldap.

JQuery is emerging as the JavaScript library of choice for developers looking to ease their creation of dynamic Rich Internet Applications. As browser-based applications continue to replace desktop applications, the use of these libraries will only continue to grow. Get to know jQuery in this series of articles that takes a look at JQuery and how you can implement it in your own Web application projects.

Employ the iSCSI Boot Commander to configure and manage an iSCSI Boot SAN environment. This technology provides a unifying management console that automates and simplifies SAN configuration and operating system deployment. Updates to this technology include installers for all corequisites; a configuration report; an IP address fill-in helper; updated Web links; and bug fixes.

Learn how to develop an application for a real estate brokerage to display all available apartment listings as clickable Placemarks on Google Maps. To turn street addresses into their geographical coordinates for storage in the database, you will call the Google Geocoder Web service from PHP.

IBM Rational Data Architect is an enterprise data modeling and integration design tool designed to help data architects design relational and federated databases, understand data assets and their relationships and streamline database projects.

In this article, examine the history and essential framework of Web DE (previously RedBack), and learn how PHP and .NET can reference Web DE RedBack Objects (RBOs) to access U2 data stores in a similar way that ASP and Java technology can use them.

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A Google Mapplet is an application that runs inside a Google Maps results page and lets you add your own custom information to the page and the map. In this tutorial, you will write a Google Mapplet that uses the Yahoo Weather RSS feed to display the local weather in Google Maps. You will apply two solutions. The first is on the client side and uses RSS and JavaScript. The second is on the server side and uses XSLT, PHP, KML, and JavaScript.

Utilize a technology that provides support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification that is currently being standardized at OASIS. CMIS standard is a uniform means for applications to work with content repositories. This prototype provides support for the CMIS REST/Atom binding for the FileNet P8 Content Manager repository.

Discover the techniques and technologies you can use to build a mashup application using Apache Geronimo, a REST-based protocol, and data from multiple sources. The mashup combines data from Google Maps and Twitter tweets to pinpoint Twitter users as they update their Twitter status.