Friends …Romans … FACULTY! Thy desperate cries have not fallen upon deaf ears. The technology titans of old hath descendeth from the White Tower to bring fire (sigma) to faculty across the campus. Your online course evaluations hath sigma.So let … Continue reading
VERY cool… I found some UTL_HTTP code that will make my life and possibly others easier.In the past we’ve had some need for PL/SQL to “post” data to a URL (usually off campus) and retrieve the response.Throughout many attempts, I … Continue reading
Here’s my vote: http://amcharts.com/pie/3d-donut-chart/http://amcharts.com/column/columns-with-rounded-corners/http://amcharts.com/column/column-and-line-chart-mix/ http://amcharts.com/stock/structured-products/– OR –http://amcharts.com/stock/multiple-data-sets/… though I like the second one better, as you an load a total of 8 data sets into it.
For those of you who don’t know, I use Oracle for middleware. One of the primary uses is the constant interchange of data from Oracle (which I can control) to CBORD (which I can’t) and back again. We have lots … Continue reading
So I was doing this research one day long ago and came across something called “Oracle Developer Exchange” (or something like that). So I bookmarked it thinking it could be something cool – like a PL/SQL code repository, etc… For … Continue reading
So I totally understand why we need them, but that doesn’t mean I gotta like ’em. Student Payroll had this little flaw that was missed in the original design. The calculation algorithms grab the most recent payrate and multiply it … Continue reading
Today John and I spent some time talking about the Residential Computing Landers Lab Helpdesk app. It’s a tool that a student programmer of mine once wrote. We use it daily in the computer lab, tracking calls and keeping in … Continue reading
So MikeR and I had a good conversation today. Status quo is something that I lack interest in. I always like pushing forward, discovering, finding new technologies, playing with fun toys and making things work. Lately, I think as a … Continue reading
AJAX: Asynchronous Javascript and XMLHttpRequest What does it mean? Well I started here. I found this ‘new’ technology on the internet that wasn’t really anything new, just a mixed bag of other technologies. Summer and I started working on it, … Continue reading
After migrating one of our shares, we’ve gone through a bumpy transition period for Oracle File I/O. After reviewing some of the code I thought it noteworthy enough to post. I particularyly dislike having to create a new ‘block’ denoted … Continue reading
