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Steven Feuerstein's Blog
 
Author: StevenFeuersteinTW Created: 10/26/2006 10:47 AM
Life’s short and there’s more to it than coding. How can we change the way we write our programs so that we can spend less time in front of a screen and more time with family, friends and planet earth? Visit my blog for tasty, tight, tidbits of advice and code that you can put to immediate use in your world of programming.

Quseful #4: Get the value of (almost) any column from any table with dynamic SQL
StevenFeuersteinTW 7/11/2007 11:04 AM

I offer in this Quseful (Quick and Useful) a package that you can use to dynamically retrieve the value of almost any column from any table. I created this package as a "helper" utility for Quest

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Confessions of a Hypocritical Programmer
StevenFeuersteinTW 6/22/2007 11:19 AM
That's me. A hypocritical programmer. And I am here to admit it, to make a confession.

Hypocrisy has got to be one of the most infuriating traits of human beings.

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Quseful #3: Don't put COMMIT; in your code!
StevenFeuersteinTW 6/5/2007 6:16 AM

Qusefuls #1 and #2 were published on Steven Feuerstein's personal blog at feuerthoughts.blogspot.com.

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Feuerstein in Buenos Aires and Magic Tricks
StevenFeuersteinTW 5/9/2007 11:24 AM

It is Wednesday, May 09, 2007 and I am sitting in the Admiral's Club at the Buenos Aires airport. I just finished two days in this lovely city. My first day was spent enjoying the chilly, but very sunny afternoon, walking for four hours around the city. It is a busy, busy place with many buses throwing way too much gritty exhaust into the air (hey, ...

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Greetings from Las Vegas!
StevenFeuersteinTW 4/19/2007 9:16 AM
I am visiting this, well, very artificial paradise dropped into the middle of a desert, so as to participate in Collaborate 07. It's been an interesting and fun several days. I have a room on the 26th floor of the Mandalay
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Send a memo to yourself!
StevenFeuersteinTW 3/29/2007 9:37 AM

I rediscovered the joy of writing to myself a week ago, and I also was reminded of the danger of coding in isolation (that is, working by oneself).

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You call this work?
StevenFeuersteinTW 3/14/2007 9:54 AM
Some musings about the life of a programmer....

Two weeks ago, we held the second annual Oracle PL/SQL Programming conference (I talked about it in last week's

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Not such a crazy idea after all!
StevenFeuersteinTW 3/7/2007 11:46 AM

A couple months ago as ODTUG was working out the final details for the Oracle PL/SQL Programming 2007 conference 

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Tracing, Testing, Debugging
StevenFeuersteinTW 2/23/2007 5:16 PM
Test your code! Debug your code! Trace your code! We all hear about how we should or at least could perform these activities with our programs. And all too often the terms and usages seem to blur, and be confused. In reality, these three activities – test, debug, trace – are all quite different in nature and serve different purposes.

This blog entry o ...

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What's New with Quest Code Tester for Oracle 1.5
StevenFeuersteinTW 2/14/2007 2:09 PM

The Major Enhancements in the 1.5 Release

Of course, we spent lots of time just fixing bugs and making lots of small changes. But there were some very critical "big ticket" enhancements that were requeste ...

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