Foursquare
Also titled: “What I learned from FourSquare.”
A few years back when we started exploring new technology, one of the ideas that seemed to stick with me was around gaming. The processes that made something enjoyable seemed to be an essential, yet elusive ingredient in business software.
In truth, I felt there was something magical about games, [...]
I came to a revelation of sorts earlier in the week.
Email apps, not web apps, represent New Web for the enterprise. I suppose you could say Enterprise 2.0, but if you’ve been with me for a while, you know I steer clear of that term.
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Work requires communication [...]
Various scenarios may require sending email messages or other types of notifications to users as part of the process flow. For example, certain types of exceptions that cannot be handled automatically may require manual intervention. For example, a BPEL process can use the notification service to alert users by voice, IM, SMS, or email.
In a [...]
Instrumentation
Cary Millsap has recently pointed to a couple of postings and quoted some people on the fine art of instrumentation. He quoted me (and got it pretty much 100% – dead on) a couple of times as well. I’ll add a quote/story to his list of quotes…
When Oracle 10g first was released – I was [...]
This story started out with a user telling us that Berkeley DB Java Edition’s group commit feature didn’t work very well on ext3. The reason is that we only group fsync’s and not writes & fsyncs. And ext3 takes an exclusive mutex on the inode for any IO operation, whereas Windows and Solaris [...]
Continue PL/SQL execution beyond exceptions.
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Every PL/SQL developer knows, or at least should know, that WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL is a hidden bug; Ask Tom.
But, what about WHEN OTHERS THEN RAISE?
I have known PL/SQL developers who follow a “standard” of adding:
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS
THEN
RAISE;
END;
to every PL/SQL block. The reasoning behind [...]
XTP is highly touted for the financial services industry where it can, for example, help prevent cyber theft by sorting through massive transaction data streams and flagging exceptions that may indicate crimes such as credit card fraud
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Best practices for where, when, and how to handle exceptions
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