Ramon Arjona

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Ramon Arjona

Ramon is a Senior Consultant with Wizards of the Coast.Originally from Hawaii, Ramon now lives in Washington state with his wife and two cats.Photo of Ramon Arjona

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Ramon Arjona In his first article in this series, Ramon Arjona covered the basics of the SHAPE syntax and the reasons why you would want to employ Data Shaping in the first place.In this article, he takes us through the design and building of a business object to allow our users to create and maintain a personalized data store of family tree information.More
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Ramon Arjona Most of us are familiar with accessing information stored in relational databases.However, not everything fits readily into a relational model.This is true even for some data that is persisted in a traditional relational database - sometimes it would be better to organize data in a hierarchical, rather than relational fashion.Ramon Arjona describes how this can be accomplished using the MSDataS ...More
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Ramon Arjona For the past several years, the Web browser has promised to become a universal front end.Ramon Arjona introduces HTML Applications that have enabled developers to build their front-end Windows-based applications by using only DHTML, without having to sacrifice any of the power or flexibility that has typically been the exclusive realm of traditional client-side development tools such as Visual Ba ...More
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Ramon Arjona ColdFusion is a stable, reliable web application server platform.Since Allaire initially released Cold Fusion in 1995, it has been shown to be a scalable, cross-platform solution for Web developers.This is a proven technology that has been around for half a decade, and is already a major force in the Web development world.Ramon Arjona gives us, as Web application developers, an introduction to ...More
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Ramon Arjona Using ASP to serve content that is not truly dynamic can be wasteful, consuming server resources and resulting in slower perceived download time.For small data sets, or data sets that are not truly dynamic, Vanilla HTML is a better solution.Ramon Arjona discusses a means by which VBScript can be used to automate the creation of static content.More

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Ramon Arjona

Ramon is a Senior Consultant with Wizards of the Coast.Originally from Hawaii, Ramon now lives in Washington state with his wife and two cats.

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Ramon starts of with the definition of OLAP and then distinguishes between OLAP and OLTP.He then continues to show, with examples, the functionng of an OLAP application.The article covers the star and the snowflake schemas and looks at MDX, the query language for OLAP that is similar to SQL.Level: Medium More...

3. Using Inheritance in ADO.NET with C# to Create Typed Datasets March 5, 2003
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Ramon Arjona covers the creation of typed databases usig Inheritence.This article starts by covering the basic principles of OOP in brief and then goes on to examine the dataset class in great detail.It explores code reuse through inheritance using the classes and interfaces available in the System.Data namespace.Level: Medium More...

4. Optimization in ADO.NET Using C#
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"There is absolutely no escape from the tar pit if you write bad code" that is exactly the advise given by Ramon Arjona in his second article on the five part series on ADO.NET.In this article, Ramon covers Optimization using C#.He describes how at the design stage, the application can be optimized by keeping the user requirements in mind.He then covers the monitoring of performance of an application.Finally, he covers the best practices which need to be considered while writing code.More...

5. Interfacing with Oracle through ADO.NET with C# March 3, 2003

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Ramon Arjona covers the interfacing of C# with Oracle using ADO.NET in this article.He explains connecting to an Oracle instance, filling a DataSet from Oracle Provider, and working with LOBs and REF CURSORs.Level: Beginner More...

6. Multi-threading In C# May 20, 2002

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In this case study, Ramon Arjona addresses several of these opportunities, and outlines solutions to many of these problems by examining an implementation of a Quote of The Day (QOTD) server.We discuss the appropriate use of threads in an application, an More...