In order to feed calendar clients (like MS Outlook, Google Calendar) it is required to supply a plain text file with the ‘.ics’ extension.
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 […]
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 […]
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:
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.
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 […]
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 .
Often it is useful to showcase a web application to potential customers allowing them to live test the application features. For this you need to publish and maintain a demo version with some relevant base data. A service application, triggered to run at a given time, basicly will clean the database by restoring it from […]
In almost every project there is need for code that converts one object type to another or provides custom formatting for output. Until C# 3.0 this was usually done by creating a wrapper class with static methods or worst by writing inline code that made those transformations on the spot. With C# 3.0 Microsoft introduced […]
After several months of development the Document Data-Tracking Client was released last week. It is an open-source desktop client application for the TraSer server and it is build upon the GUI4j framework. Also, it is available for download on Source Forge.