Recently, I helped design a Java server application that resembled an in-memory database. That is, we biased the design toward caching tons of data in memory to provide super-fast query performance.

.NET Framework 4 introduces a new method on its String class called IsNullOrWhiteSpace that checks whether a provided String is null, empty, or consists only of “white space.” This handy method is in ...

This is the first time we have used JSP. We decided to simply return a property which is a string that has all the data and html code in it. I was worried if the results from the database were too ...