If ever there was a combination to make you hate developing web applications against an Oracle database, it’s the one defined in the title of this post. Let’s see: Unix timestamps are used in a lot of web applications because they’re easy to work with Oracle doesn’t have any native functions for working with Unix [...]
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“Expected identifier, string or number”
Thanks, IE. I just spent pretty much all day tracking down the cause of this error. Conventional wisdom regarding this error is that you have a snippet of JavaScript like (where the comma trailing “42″ is the error): var myObj = { a: “a string”, b: 42, } I didn’t. But IE 8 was still [...]
SSH User’s IP Address
Let’s pretend you need to write a script that should not be run more than once concurrently. Let’s also pretend that the script has the potential of being run by multiple people through the same account (wonderful security setup you have here). So you come up with the brilliant idea of making the script create [...]
PL/JSON Library
At work, I write a good bit of PL/SQL to support various web applications that I maintain. That is, I write a lot of web services directly in the database so that I have to maintain less code. Unless there is a good reason not to, and there aren’t many, I default to using JSON [...]
JavaScript Patterns, A Book Review
Around mid-November I got an email from O’Reilly with a discount code on select e-books. One of them caught my interest, so I bought it and have been reading it over the last month. That book is JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov. I am only midway through chapter 6, and I was going to wait until [...]
