Philip Guth's Bookmarks

• http-in transport – listens for incoming requests delivered to http://localhost:8080/ccx/FOPAssembly.


• xslt step component – transforms incoming XML documents to XSL-FO using an XSL script.


• custom step component – custom Java implementation of Apache FOP that processes XSL-FO to generate PDF output

“It’s red tape like this that keeps 40 percent of college students from even
applying for federal aid,” the secretary said, according to a copy of her
prepared remarks. “That’s nearly eight million students. And we believe most
would have been eligible for assistance.”

"These are not impersonal drill sergeants," he says. "It doesn't take long
for students to figure out that this school really cares about them."

Retrieving data from a database using DBI
is essentially a four-stage cycle:







1. The prepare stage parses an SQL statement, validates that statement,
   and returns a statement handle representing that statement within the
   database.

2. Providing the prepare stage has returned a valid statement handle,
   the next stage is to execute that statement
   within the database. This actually performs the query and begins to
   populate data structures within the database with the queried data.
   At this stage, however, your Perl program does not have access to the
   queried data.

3. The third stage is known as the fetch stage, in
   which the actual data is fetched from the database using the
   statement handle. The fetch stage pulls the queried data, row by row,
   into Perl data structures, such as scalars or hashes, which can then
   be manipulated and post-processed by your program.

   The fetch stage ends once all the data has been fetched, or it can be
   terminated early using the finish() method.

   If you'll need to re-execute() your query
   later, possibly with different parameters, then you can just keep
   your statement handle, re-execute() it, and so
   jump back to stage 2.

4. The final stage in the data retrieval cycle is the
   deallocation stage. This is essentially an
   automatic internal cleanup exercise in which the DBI and driver
   deallocate the statement handle and associated information. For some
   drivers, that process may also involve talking to the database to
   tell it to deallocate any information it may hold related to the
   statement.

   All this is done for you automatically, triggered by Perl's own
   garbage collection mechanism.

You could also fetch the data via fetchrow_array()
into an array variable instead of a list of scalar variables by
writing:

while ( @row = $sth->fetchrow_array ) {
    ### Print out a wee message
    print "Megalith site $row[0] is a $row[1]\n";
}

Among the new application vServices: VMsafe, for security; the vApp solution
for creating self managing VMs, and vStudio tool for creating virtual
appliances. VMware also committed to supporting very large virtual machines with
up to 8 virtual CPUs and 256 GB of RAM and VMDirectpath, which
offers enhanced network and storage I/O performance.

At the next level, “Zurich” — which Microsoft also has described as the Live
Platform services layer — Microsoft will deliver federated identity, data
synchronization, workflow and “relay services.” I’ve been hearing a bit more
lately about Relay, which I believe Microsoft also has called “Overlay”
services.

Overlay is a peer-to-peer network that will help bridge distributed, parallel
systems. Supposedly, Overlay will help Microsoft do everything from load
balancing and replication of application states across the network of machines,
to providing a discovery framework for Web services to make use of presence and
federation services. Elements of the overlay network are expected to be part of
.Net 4.0, the next version of Microsoft’s .Net Framework.

But in less than three years, the grassy expanse, like the college itself,
has undergone a transformation. The newly developed acreage — boasting an
ice arena, football and baseball stadiums, a track, and a dozen tennis
courts — is the cornerstone of a plan to raise enrollment through intense
athletics recruiting.

The use of athletics to drive enrollment, he says, could well be "the
fountain of youth for small liberal-arts colleges."

But problems abounded, and the Board of Trustees was ready to try something
drastic. Enrollment had sunk to 935, well below the capacity of 1,400 students,
and showed no signs of rising. Three residence halls were shuttered, the ones
that remained open were falling apart, and retention rates were suffering.

Persuading cash-strapped students to consider Adrian depended on offering
something they couldn't get elsewhere, Mr. Docking says. That "something" turned
out to be extracurricular activities — in particular, sports.

The idea, Mr. Creehan recalls, was: "Spend money to make money."

In three years, in addition to building the new facilities, Adrian has added
five varsity teams and six club teams. It has hired 11 new full-time head
coaches. The plan requires the 16 head coaches of varsity sports to bring in a
total of nearly 200 athletes each year. (Please see chart on Page A19.)

Still, Mr. Delfausse, the men's lacrosse coach, says he and other coaches
would like to see the athlete population decrease slightly. "The majority of us
would like to … have more of the student base be music or theater or the
academic side of things," he says. "I think the school wants it that way as well
in the long run.

During the Title IV recertification process, there are certain changes that require written approval from the U.S. Department of Education before the disbursement of Title IV aid.

These include changes to the state authorizing agency or accrediting agency; changes to program offerings (including the addition of non-degree programs); and changes to institutional structure (nonprofit versus for-profit). These must be submitted, along with supporting documentation, to receive approval.