practical, reusable, well UML-documented solution, Design where the responsibilities were cleary separeted, making it easy to understand it without beeing to complex.

Meteor is a framework for building real-time client-server applications in JavaScript. It is build from the ground up to work with MongoDB – a JSON database which gives you storage that’s idiomatic for JavaScript.

This simple article shows how to configure Solr to import and index an entire document directory thanks to Tika library.

In the PHPCR implementation using Doctrine DBAL we support search queries by converting the SQL2/QOM statements into XPath queries that we run on the XML stored in an RDBMS. Sounds insane, yes .. but it works pretty well .. obviously will not scale very well .. but it works for smaller data sets and there will be ways to improve performance later. In terms of functionality we have everything working quite well including JOIN support that was added recently.

One of the things that we are planning for Raven 3.0 is the introducing of additional options. In addition to having RavenDB, we will also have RavenFS, which is a replicated file system with an eye toward very large files. But that isn’t what I want to talk about today. Today I would like to talk about something that is currently just in my head. I don’t even have a proper name for it yet.

Custom paging in Gridview

Pivot in SQL Server is used to transform row values of a column as the columns of the output. What is the need of dynamic pivot? The need of dynamic pivot arises when the row values for the column are not static i.e you do not know what all values would be there in the column

Column Level Encryption in Sql Server

If your table is updated often, queries will rarely pull from cache. Depending on your situation, performance may be more important than up-to-the-second data accuracy.

Assume we have a table which has two columns, one column contains the names of some people and the other column contains some values related to each person. One person can have more than one value. Each value has a numeric type. The question is we want to select the top 3 values for each person from the table. If one person has less than 3 values, we select all the values for that person. Also assume there is no duplicate entry in the table, i.e each name/value pair will be different.

Here's a curated list of the latest interesting links for Vert.x, Yoke (the polyglot answer to Node.js), and WebSockets.