..or so my better half would say!
Google/HTC Nexus One is an amazing phone. I love it. Along with whatever Apple are announcing next week I really think it will be a big factor behind augmented reality and always-on mobile internet going mainstream in 2010.
But I do agree with Dvorak who made the point that the [...]
Almost every application I’ve written in Application Express seems to end up with anonymous PL/SQL blocks. In the best practices document , this is called out as something to avoid doing. The document mentions reuse and reuse and manageability. Manageability includes things like running your logic within a debugger or in a Unit Test as [...]
Having a good discussion on the forum regarding fixed row enumeration. Maybe you have a fixed height for a table on some pre-printed stationary. I have documented a way to fix the number of rows on a page a few years back. the twist to the requirement is that if I have ‘line’ data that [...]
I was trying out a different approach to 8-Queen’s problem. I visualized each cell [that has a coordinate from (0,0) to (7,7) as a single number 10x + y. So you would have sort of an octal number set from 0 to 77. Each column would be 0-7, 10-17, 20-27 etc and so on till [...]
E20 Reconciliation (no small task and lots of good charts) – Contentation Re-Considered (Stéphane Croisier)
Understanding how we share links – Haystack Blog
Behavioral Targeting on the web – Pretzel Logic
Thoughts on SEO and their bad rap – Search Engine Land
Thoughts on the latest Gartner ECM MQ (with links to the report)- Bex Huff
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As you may have noticed, I am running this global survey for my upcoming book, at www.frankbuytendijk.com (if you haven’t filled it in, please do so!). I have over 500 respondents already, and it is time to start to think about analyzing the results.
Honestly, I don’t like spreadsheets, and I don’t feel like writing macro’s. [...]
Did you ever wonder where the balanced scorecard came from? It was created as part of a set of workshops by Drs. Kaplan and Norton with a group of companies who were looking for a way to combine financial and non-financial management information. The idea that emerged and that was finetuned over time was to [...]
Conversion between timezones of the participating edge applications is required when the integration specific logic or the data being exchanged involves date with timestamp attributes.
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Alan Gibson, one of our engineering gurus here in JDeveloperland, gave me this tip recently for developing both J2EE 1.3 and 1.4 services in the same application.
1. Add your base Java implementation to project12. Create project2 for your J2EE1.3 Web service3. In the Dependencies tab of the Project Settings for project2, check project1 as a [...]
I hate queries of the following form:
select count(*) from <anything else here>
The reason? The code typically looks something like this around the count(*):
select count(*) into l_cnt from …..;if ( l_cnt > 0 )then process_the_data;end if;
I’ve always wondered why that code isn’t just:
process_the_data;
Why bother counting – and then processing if that count [...]