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Sending push notifications to iOS devices

Using push technology, server applications can deliver text alerts, media files, and app-specific data directly to iOS apps -- without the trouble and expense of implementing SMS or MMS. Learn the steps for making push work for your iOS apps, and see how to streamline the process on the server side via the open source JavaPNS library.

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XQuery: A better programming language for the database programmer (XML)

Discover how the powerful programming constructs available in the XQuery language make it a better programming language than SQL. Understand why this improvement in expressiveness and ease of use is enough to warrant the design of databases with an increasing emphasis on XML data types.

Restricting database connections using trusted contexts in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (Information Management)

Protect databases against unauthorized access or misuse by authorized database users. Learn to mitigate risks by ensuring that users are allowed to connect only from a list of trusted hosts known to be secure.

Data analysis and performance with Spark (Linux)

Explore multithread and multinode performance with Scala, Spark, and its tunable parameters. See why Spark is an up-and-coming big-data analytics solution developed for highly efficient cluster computing using in-memory processing, and discover why it can be an interesting alternative to Hadoop.

The 10 most-loved articles about Rational software from 2011 (Rational)

Take a look at a compilation of the 10 most-loved articles published in 2011 on the developerWorks Rational section. From Grady Booch to a basic profile for linked data, you'll find what readers found most interesting.

Your first cup of CoffeeScript: Using CoffeeScript on the client (Web development)

Create a sample application that searches both Google and Twitter, then displays the combined results--writing both the client-side and server-side code completely in CoffeeScript.

Passing objects between CICS Java environments (WebSphere)

The Java language is becoming a popular programming language for CICS applications. CICS provides multiple Java environments, each with its own strengths, so passing data objects between the different CICS Java environments is an important topic. This three-part article series gives you the details.

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Tech Talk: Assurance for your IBM Smart Cloud foundation solution using IBM SmartCloud Provisioning and IBM SmartCloud Monitoring
(22 Feb 2012; 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time)

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