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Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:47 AM |
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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. |
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Quseful #7: Kill those infinite loops! |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:42 PM
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I don't know about you, but I sometimes write code that (inadvertently, not on purpose) contains an infinite loop. So I run my program and Toad goes off into never-never land, with Oracle chewing up CPU cycles so intently that it is hard to connect as SYS and kill the session.
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Quseful #6: Generate collections of random values |
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Friday, August 17, 2007 9:27 AM
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You will find in this Quseful a package that will generate/return collections of random values of strings, numbers and dates. It also contains a "self-test" random_verifier procedure that you can run to verify "at a glance" that the values being generated seem
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Quseful #5: Does that string contain a valid number? |
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Monday, August 06, 2007 2:01 PM
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I offer in this Quseful (Quick and Useful) a package that you can use to determine if a string contains a valid integer, number, binary_float or binary_double (note: if you are not running Oracle 10g, you will need to comment out the binary_* versions in this package). It is based on code I wrote about back in 1997 (available
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Feuerstein in Buenos Aires and Magic Tricks |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:24 AM
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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! |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:16 AM
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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! |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:37 AM
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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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