I have a general feeling of content for people in marketing. Now some of you may feel this to be a little harsh. But to be completely fair they bring it on themselves. Actually there are a lot of people in marketing who are ok. I think the people behind Innocent Smoothies for example have [...]
Read MoreAt work we sit behind a proxy server. A very restrictive proxy server. Now I know the reason for this is so we can be ISO whatever certified on our security. But for the moment I’m going to pretend that it’s because we are not trusted.
This same poxy handles SSL connections such that [...]
I write this just after taking over an ADF project from a work mate. I had tried to dabble with Oracle ADF in the past, but it got side tracked by PHP work. Now I take over this new project and all of a sudden I need to learn ADF for real.
After 2 days [...]
Just came across a problem with oci_bind_by_name in php and inserting nulls. If I left named parameters blank, the qery would fail. If I tried:
oci_bind_by_name($stmt, “name”, null);
It would moan about ‘only variables can be passed by reference’. Seems obvious now but at the time it really stumpted me. The solution is to make a [...]
Read MoreYou ever noticed when your coding, sometimes you really get into it. One moment it’s just after lunch and you want to add xml exporting functionality, the next thing you know it 7pm, your work makes have gone home and you have a complete multi-format generic data exporting engine. I love it when that happens!
Read MoreIn my last post may moons ago I said XGL was too immature for easy installation/reliability. Well I was wrong. The clever old fold at Beryl have made a script to do all the hard work for you.
I edited it a little to stop it from installing nVidea drivers (as I already have some installed).
As [...]
Simple. In Windows things just work. Sure they may take a while to load up and crash every now and then, but mostly things work.
Now compare this to linux. Today I’ve wasted my evening. What to achieve? Well what I set out to achieve and what I actaully did achieve are two very seperate things. [...]