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So, I’ve finally got round to blogging about my trip to JAOO in Denmark. I’ve already posted something on my official work blog about the surprising lack of non-Danes at the conference. Looking back on it, I think the most interesting talk was by Jaron Lanier on Phenotropic Computing (see this interview for more). [...]

Hello. Yes, I’m still here despite my recent silence. Just had to point out that I’ve just gained 100 Bonus Geek Points by being mentioned in an O’Reilly book:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oraclep4/
I reviewed Chapter 6 (Exception Handling – take a look, I think you’ll find it’s one of the best ;-)) so Steven kindly thanked me [...]

Hold the front page! Borland have discovered the holy grail of software development. To quote their ad which appears in Computing Magazine (and doubtless elsewhere in the IT press):
Software Delivery Optimization transforms software development into a predictable, reliable, managed business process.

I’m sorry, but as soon as I read something like this, it makes me set [...]

I’ve been doing some research into RESTful web services recently. We may be going down this route, so I’ve been tasked with giving a presentation to the development team on the topic. As part of this, I checked out what Java frameworks are available to simplify the process. The answer seems to be – not [...]

In the good old days when I spent my time cranking out PL/SQL, I spent lots of time creating cursors, since these are the best way for PL/SQL to interact with SQL. So, you define a cursor, open it and step through the rows that get returned, usually doing stuff with each row. [...]