April 14, 2017
April 14, 2017 | Volume 14 Issue 7
• LEAD ARTICLE: TechTip: Node.js JoinJS
• FEATURED ARTICLE: TechTip: Watson, APIs, and You, Part 2
• NEWS HIGHLIGHT: Profound UI 5.8 Adds Enhanced Capabilities to JumpStart Code Generator
• ON-DEMAND WEBCAST: Business Intelligence for the SMB's Budget
• FEATURED VIDEO: InterConnect 2017: Conversations with Jeff Spicer and Dez Blanchfield
• EVENT: Continuous Deployment - Pilot Application Development across IBM i, UNIX, Linux, Windows and z/OS
• MC VIDEO SHOWCASE: New - Design an Invoice in 10 Minutes
TechTip: Node.js JoinJS
SQL result sets are flat for joins. That makes it more complex to process both in business logic and UI. JoinJS to the rescue!
Written by Aaron Bartell
I am currently coding a Node.js project for a customer that uses the HapiJS web framework. We had the need to create a JSON result object from DB2 that conveyed a list of employees and their department associations and send it to the browser. In short, the SQL result set looked like the below.
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TechTip: Watson Products
A couple of articles ago, we looked at what an API was and even what Watson was, but we didn’t get into an example of the kinds of stuff Watson is mixed up in. Stand by to be amazed.
Written by Dave Shirey
In a previous TechTip, we started to get into what the new world of APIs allows us to do (interface complex applications, not just point functions, with your custom applications) and what Watson really is (a set of very fast processors running with a parallel architecture, DeepQA, to provide a new way to approach the question-and-answer application). But we didn’t talk about how you can get involved with that world.
Business Intelligence for the SMB's Budget
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