Archive | July, 2006

The developer disease

Do you know this disease which all developers worldwide have in comon? I think there is no name for it yet, so let us just call it “featurebeforeweship” disease.

So what is it all about you might ask. Well, it is the little guy up in the developers mind that will not let him finish off the application before this “little” feature or addon is build in and ready. As an example, you got this little blog application writn all on your own. You think to release it to the public but then, just before yuo are about to let the world know about your masterpiece, you think “nah, let me build a nice backend administration to it that will let my users do (write in here what you want)”.

So what happens? Your application will not hit the net and will end up for another round of development on your screen. This disease can even be so intense that your application, which is actually at Version 1.0, becomes a feature rich application, more like a version 2.0, but still unshipped at the level of Version 1.0

Now, to be totally honest with you, I am suffering from this disease too. I have suffered from it in the past many times and are sill under the impression that my application(s) should only see the world after feature “xy” has been implemented. Now let’s see how we can overcome this challenge …

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ColdFusion and Oracle inserting PL/SQL Block and Error PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol

If you want to insert a PL/SQL block using the <cfquery> tag you might see that your trigger, package, etc. is being saved in the Oracle database but it throws an error while executing, but Inserting the same PL/SQL statement within Oracle works just fine.

Now before you go and rewrite your whole SQL statement within the <cfquery> many times there is luckily an easy answer to this challenge; With ColdFusion you can not issue a SQL statement within the <cfquery> tag which uses a “;”.

So what to do? Read on to see how to overcome this challenge.

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I am impressed: Opera and other cool tools

Well, we all know there is Internet Explorer and then there is the great FireFox browser. I guess most people use one of these browsers to access websites.

Recently I also took a look at Opera browser (latest Version is 9.0) and I have to say I am impressed…

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Troubles with the .NET 2.0 Framework Security Update (kb917283)

A week ago Microsoft released the .NET 2.0 Framework Security Update and ever since then Windows XP tells me that an update is available and wants to download it, this like 5 times a day. This has been going on for a week now.

The “fix” to get it installed and working is to completely uninstall the .NET 2.0 Framework and reinstall it with the Windows Update feature.

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