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On Cloud Computing, XML, DB2 and an iPod Touch

Last week IDUG, the International DB2 User Group announced its sponsorship of “The XML Challenge”, a world wide contest for both professional and aspiring (students) programmers. I don’t want to rehash all of the things about the contest here. Just go to the contest website and read about it. There are several ways to participate. You can record a YouTube like video hopefully of doing something productive with XML and DB2 and not just playing with a bottle of Coke and some Menthos.

You can submit a gadget. There is no strict definition of what a gadget is. In other [...]

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Where did my Data Studio go?

So, you downloaded the free DB2 Express-C and you have started to play around with it. Maybe you created sample database and started to explore it using DB2 Control Center. If you are a developer, you may find that DB2 Control Center does not quite fit what you think of a a development tool. It is more in tune with what a DBA might want to do. So, you may have taken our advice and downloaded the new IBM Data Studio. After all, it is free so why not! If you have not done this already, go get it from the [...]

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