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Email was designed and used at a time when the Internet was still a safe and friendly place. This is no longer the case, yet many email servers still allow anyone on the Internet to access their services to send spam email, and many of us still send our account passwords and email messages in clear text (think postcard versus envelope) over the wire.  

Many email programs have the ability to sign and encrypt email messages. This allows us to verify the identity of the sender of a received email message, verify that the message has not been tampered with in transit, and, finally, send encrypted email messages. Simply put, it offers the ability to put our email messages in an envelope and seal them.  More.  

I haven’t had much time lately to write up any articles, but I’ve finally found something that may be useful for those of us who work quite a lot with SQL on the DB2 platform. We don’t need to write up a Java program everytime we want to query for information based on specific time intervals. We can just use the date/time functions built-in to DB2 SQL to manipulate and query the database. More.

For the life of me, I can’t remember where I found this cheat sheet. I apologize in advance for not being able to give out the reference.  

I never got around to finishing up on the other WebSphere XML article, but here’s an interim article which I think is quite eye-opening. If you are an IT web applications architect making the decision between Domino and WebSphere or both, you need to know how well the product aligns with the task it is being asked to perform. For example, we all should know that Domino is an excellent choice for collaborative tasks and WebSphere is great at transactional based tasks. More.

I’ve had a quite a weekend. Still getting over a cold. I had planned on getting part 2 of the tutorials done, but it looks like it won’t happen till this weekend. I’m shooting for a publish date of April 11, 2004. I will be discussing the servlet that will parse the RSS feed and display the data to the web browser. You will need to setup Apache Tomcat before hand as I will only show the result of the servlet code.

I have been trying to come up with some upcoming article ideas.  I’ve decided to do one on how easy WebSphere Application Developer or Eclipse makes XML development in Java very easy.  In particular, I hope to discuss Java object data binding techniques using XSD beans API.  Stay tuned next week for the first part of my article series.

I present to you my first article
describing the appropriate way to write Java code when using the Domino Java APIs.
The excerpt is borrowed from an e-Pro Magazine article on Java Performance Techniques for Domino Development.