Authoring an EnterpriseDB report with Report Builder 2.0

This article by Dr. Jayaram Krishnaswamy shows step-by-step how you may retrieve data from a database on a Postgres Plus server and display the results in a report generated using Report Builder 2.0. Report Builder 2.0 is a report building and maintaining tool provided with SQL Server 2008. The evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise edition was used in this tutorial. Report data is obtained via an ODBC DSN. The connection uses an EnterpriseDB ODBC driver that gets installed on the computer when EnterpriseDB is installed.

Competitive Service and Contract Management in SAP Business ONE Implementation: Part 1

In this article by Wolfgang Niefert, we will take a closer look at the service module to evaluate potential actions that are triggered, based on service-related information. The concept introduced here will utilize the service module features to establish a guaranteed response time for customers. You will see that there are various angles to look at service. In addition to its more traditional view, service can be used to establish a service-level-type management for customers and the related sales opportunities. Basically, the service module can be used as a sophisticated alert system.

Exceptions and Logging in Apache Struts 2

In this article on Apache Struts 2 by Dave Newton, we'll cover something mundane but critical—exception handling and logging. We will explore:

• The Struts 2 declarative exception handling mechanism
• Some general exception handling practices that will help us create robust applications
• Logging configuration and practices to help us take a peek inside our application's execution, and help determine what went wrong when errors occur

Posting on Your WordPress Blog

Once your WordPress installation is up and running, you are ready to start blogging. WordPress is the right choice for blogging because it's quite a powerful tool with a seemingly infinite array of options and possibilities. The main focus of this article is to explain how to make a blog post and how to control all of the information for that post, and not just the title and content. In this article by Hasin Hayder and April Hodge Silver, we will explore how to keep your content organized and searchable using tags and categories.

The Rotating Post Titles with Post Preview Gadget

In this article by Narayan Bhat, we will see how to install The Rotating Post Titles with Post Preview Gadget in your blog. This gadget contains Official Google code created using the Dynamic Feed Control from the Google AJAX Feed API. It will show all the post titles in your blog classified according to Labels (in Blogger) or Categories (in Wordpress). It will also show a brief rotating post preview at the top.

Multimedia and Assessments with Moodle 1.9 (part 2)

This is the second part of a two-part article series by João Pedro Soares Fernandes dealing with assessment activities using multimedia. In the first part we saw how to add multimedia to multiple choice answers in Moodle quizzes and lessons and create crosswords and jumble exercises in Hot Potatoes.

In this part, we will create puzzles and "find-the-pair" activities using JClic and assessing multimedia using rubrics.

Showing Drupal's CCK Module Fields in Flash

The CCK (Content Construction Kit) module is one of Drupal's most popular, contributed modules, and for a good reason. It gives the administrator the ability to create custom content types as well as custom fields that are essential for creating a web site that manages specific forms of content.

In this article by Travis Tidwell, we will use this module to create the structure required to enter content for each recipe in our Drupal web site. The dynamic content extracted from Drupal is incorporated as custom data within a Flash application.