Category Archives: Programming
Signs
It’s a sign you need either: more sleep; or more coffee when you find code committed into a source code repository that you don’t remember writing and realise when you find it that it was really handy that you wrote … Continue reading
Learning How To Scale An ASP.NET Application
For the last nine months, the development team at Stella Hospitality Group have been working on integrating a new piece of software into the enterprise. Throughout that process, we’ve come up against various stumbling blocks and subsequently learned how to … Continue reading
Getting Your CSS Off
Toward the end of March 2006, Dustin Diaz thought that stripping all of the presentation from his web site was an excellent way of promoting web standards and CSS based design. The idea caught on and a whole swag of … Continue reading
Oracle Dynamic SQL Using The DECODE Function
When developing most applications, you end up having to interact with a database. If you’re application is large enough and warrants the design and effort, it will no doubt be tiered as well. If your application is tiered, one of … Continue reading
Storing Time Information In Oracle
I recently had a requirement to store a time within Oracle, not a timestamp or a date – just the time. As it turns out, storing just the time information in Oracle isn’t something you can do without a little … Continue reading