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Changing the Default NetBeans License Template


In my previous blog post, I demonstrated how to remove the annoying template instruction comment added to all NetBeans-generated files.

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Dealing with NetBeans New Source Template Annoyance


Yesterday I ran across one of those blog posts that made me realize that I am not the only one with a particular pet peeve. In this case, Emilian Bold addressed my pet peeve about developers leaving the NetBeans-generated template instruction comments in the code.

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Oracle CHR Function

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One of the presentations I enjoyed at Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) Training Days 2010 was Stephen Jackson's presentation "Using SQL to Generate SQL." I have used some of the techniques he discussed in his presentation to have SQL generate SQL, but one thing I had not thought of doing was to use the CHR function to make scripts more readable.

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Correlation Between Typing Speed and Programming Competence


A colleague recently asked me, "Have you noticed that the better developers we've worked with are also fast typists?" I acknowledged that I had noticed relatively quick typing speed to be a common trait of most of the best developers that I know.

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Notes about Groovy's DataSet

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I have blogged before about GroovySql and I find that it meets my needs nicely.

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Groovier Java TimeZone ID Handling


Many Java developers are not fond of Java's standard APIs for handling Dates and Calendars. In fact, it is difficult to think of examples from the Java standard APIs that better illustrate the mistake of allowing ultimate and mostly unused flexibility to result in an unnecessarily high degree of pain for the vast majority of users of the API.

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RMOUG Training Days 2010: It's A Wrap!

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Several blog posts related to Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) Training Days 2010 have started appearing and some of the presenters have made their slides available for download. In this blog post, I collect links to some of those blog posts and presentation slides after briefly summarizing my own experience.

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More Groovy-based Simple HTTP Clients


In my previous blog post, I briefly wrote about the use of Groovy, Groovy's GDK String, and the Java-provided URL class to write simple HTTP/REST clients.

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Minimalistic HTTP Clients with Groovy


The Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) Training Days 2010 main technical sessions are going to be held tomorrow and Thursday of this week and I will be presenting two presentations on Groovy and JAX-RS/

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JAX-RS and HTTP Responses


HTTP Status Codes are a big part of the HTTP protocol that most of us have seen countless times in our web browsing and development. We are used to seeing 404 (Not Found), 200 (OK), and so forth.

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