Linguistic sorting with Oracle

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Sorting characters is done differently from one language to another. For example, in English digits come before letters in an ascending sorting. But, in German, digits are ascendant sorted after letters. Sorting may or may not be case sensitive, diacritics may be considered or ignored, and phonetic rules could also be used (e.g.: in Spanish […]

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In order to feed calendar clients (like MS Outlook, Google Calendar) it is required to supply a plain text file with the ‘.ics’ extension.

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In a recent project I had to handle with two simultaneous DB connections using SimpleORM. As you probably know SimpleORM, according with the official web site, is “a full featured Java object relational mapping system that avoids exotic technologies such as byte code generation [more]”. After spending some time in searching more info about how to […]

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As we already discussed in a previous article we started to rewrite one of our custom ASP Controls in order to improve server and network load. During this process we transformed most of old JavaScript functions to jQuery. Please bear in mind that the objective was not to improve script performance and jQuery scripts may […]

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In this article we will take a brief look at the Oracle SQL FIRST/LAST aggregate functions that allow you to select a value from the first or last row(s) of a sorted group, when the needed value is not the sort key. For example consider a table “PROJECT_COST” having the following structure and data:

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The Visual Studio Code Snippets feature allows very simple, common, code blocks to be reused without requiring the same thing to be typed out repeatedly, or copied and hacked. The Code Snippets feature allows inserting code, wrapping existing code and replacement of key parts of the Snippet.

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Internet Explorer 6 or any other version has been and still is every Web Developer’s nightmare when it comes to designing even the most basic CSS for a website. Fortunately, with the release of Internet Explorer 8, most of the IE6’s past bugs have been fixed and slowly, but sure, Microsoft is getting Internet Explorer […]

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This article was written to emphasize some of advantages and disadvantages of  using  jQuery. What is jQuery? jQuery is a small JavaScript library that includes support for manipulating the DOM, supports AJAX and it provides some basic graphical effects. The functionality can be enhanced with plugins. Compared with other toolkits,  jQuery aims to change the […]

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Last week I began working on a project for the Lotus Notes platform. This project was designed for learning purposes, in order to understand the concepts of Lotus Notes. The application is composed of two forms, one for items and one for categories .

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Software Measurement is a discipline of Software Engineering which allows us to quantify, measure different characteristics of the software product. Applying measures for software development can prove to be useful because it allows us to deal with the three major problems encountered in software development: uncertainty, irreversibility and complexity. This is a short introduction into […]

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