Richard's Rant

Links for Thursday 13 February 2008

•  The project I am onis using an Oracle database as the data store.2 of the fields that we are storing are CLOBS (or Character Large Object). This is posing a few problems, as  updating the data is problematic, and you have to jump through some hoops to make it work. Below are a few links that I found that give some examples of how to deaal with CLOB data:
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/05-nov/o65odpnet.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/price_dotnet2.html
• http://weblogs.asp.net/jdanforth/archive/2005/09/06/424513.aspx
• http://geekswithblogs.net/tmurphy/archive/2006/04/13/75108.aspx
• http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/ramamohang/OracleDataProviderfor.NET212012005015557AM/OracleDataProviderfor.NET2.aspx
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cydxhzhz(VS.80).aspx
• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/C__and_Oracle.aspx
• An article on Behaviour Driven Development
• Terry Pratchett is indeed onof my favourite authors. This comment about a moles ares in this article alone says all there is to know about the humour of the man.
  

Links for Tuesday 11 March 2008

• A conversation about how to keep employees happy.Very pertinent in the current market I think. I particularly like the one about hardware (My current company makes you fight to get a AUD$30 bluetooth module for the supplied laptop, after supplying us with Bluetooth phones)
• A nice comparison of Operating Systems
• ARS Technica has a review of the new KDE desktop. Looks pretty sweet.
• Gigaom has an interview with Ray Ozzie
• Very cool Linq editor
• Aaron Shneider has an article on a bug in the AJAX Autocomplete Extender
• Ranko philosophises about whether development is just about writing code.
• A very interesting article on Security Best Practices
• This article makes me excited about prosethetics: A really cool Bionic Eye
• In my wanderings today, came across the Microsoft Pattern and Practices
• I have started to play with Twitter again. You can find me here

Links for Monday 3 March 2008

Jeez, the year is just flying by.  Here are my picks for the day(and the weekend - I was slack again)

• Don Resisinger has a post about Vista Price Cuts and another on mergers in the games industry
• Some people have the most amazing imaginations. This is one of the coolest concepts I have seen in a while
• An intersting post on making money being an Open Source developer
• Microsoft released a training kit for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5
• A whole bunch of stuff from Microsoft Live
• Some commentry on emails from Microsoft about theVista Capable lawsuit
• Tester Center on MSDN
• FX Cop has a new home on Code Gallery
• An update to the AJAX Control Toolkit has been released. But I am having no luck downloading it (The server seems swamped)
• Interesting article on binding hierarchical data controls to navigation controls
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