Adjusting Color / Video Summit / Open Source Databases - WebReference Update

WebReference Update: July 2, 2007

New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:

FEATURE: Photoshop CS3: Adjusting Color

OTHER VOICES:

• The Lure of Open Source Databases
• Paging in SQL Server 2005
• Notifications in a Java/Swing Application

NET NEWS:

• Web Video Summit Wraps-Up on a Positive Note
• Zend Framework 1.0 Ready To Compete
• Nearly 30,000 Malicious Web Sites Appear Each Day

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FEATURE: Photoshop CS3: Adjusting Color

Color adjustment is one of the most important aspects of working with images. This week you'll learn how to turn red roses blue, change a sky from midday to sunset and back again, bring out the detail in shadows, and control every imaginable aspect of color manipulation.

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OTHER VOICES

• The Lure of Open Source Databases

  Interviews with customers and vendors of open source and commercial databases provide a look at various aspects of what open source databases are offering today at a high level and how they stack up against their commercial counterparts from a business perspective.
  Database Journal

• Paging in SQL Server 2005

  Developers and database administrators have long debated methods for paging recordset results from Microsoft SQL Server, trying to balance ease of use with performance. The simplest methods were less efficient because they retrieved entire datasets from SQL Server before eliminating records which were not to be included, while the best-performing methods handled all paging on the server with more complex scripting. The ROW_NUMBER() function introduced in SQL Server 2005 provides an efficient way to limit results relatively easily.