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Rant 3000: Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Friday, October 8, 2010. Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize. China is still stuck in the dark age of human freedom. Fortunately, some Chinese are waking up and trying to make a difference:. Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize. The Chinese cannot continue to send their best and brightest overseas to escape tyranny and oppression. Sooner or later, and let's hope sooner, they will need to stop blocking Facebook, shut down their Great Firewall, and join the rest of the civilized world. China is still stuck in t...

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Oracle DB Coding: Oracle XML PL/SQL Gotcha

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Monday, September 13, 2010. Oracle XML PL/SQL Gotcha. Recently I've been working on a project importing and exporting XML from an Oracle DB. The fastest way to do this and the approach recommended by Oracle is to use the XML libraries to read and write as describe by the Oracle document:. Oracle DB XML Guide. And the import library for taking XML and loading it into the database:. So what can you do? There are several workarounds. One way is to use the old Java-based XML import library:. Another way is t...

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Oracle DB Coding: Oracle Outage at JPMorgan and Formal Proof of DB Validity

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Friday, September 17, 2010. Oracle Outage at JPMorgan and Formal Proof of DB Validity. Andrew Wiles, Prover of Fermat's Last Theorem. An interesting post over at DBMS2 about the JPMorgan Oracle DB Outage. In normal programming tasks, formal verification is too restrictive and unwieldy for regular use. However for infrequently changed but extremely critical software, formal verification is becoming more than just a toy. An entire microkernel, seL4 of the L4. Family, has recently been formally proven corre...

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Oracle DB Coding: Substitution Variable XML Gotcha

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010. Substitution Variable XML Gotcha. You might have been using XML in your PL/SQL script and tried to include an XML special character such as < or ' as described at the W3C:. When testing your script in sqlplus or the Oracle SQL Developer you may have been confused by an input question or popup window asking for the "lt" or "apos" variable definition. What is actually happening here is Oracle thinks that your XML character is actually a subsitution variable:. Recently Ive bee...

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Rant 3000: Why Mobile Apps Are Obsolete

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Thursday, November 18, 2010. Why Mobile Apps Are Obsolete. Everywhere in the software development world today you hear about mobile apps. iPhone, iPad, Android, Symbian, even old J2ME. More and more on-handset applications available, 100,000, 250,000, growing and growing, from GrandTheftTrademark LXXVIII. But don't be deceived. Mobile apps are dead. And yet, day by day desktop apps are being replicated on the web. Sometimes better than what was there before. Increasingly they are replacing deskto...The r...

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Rant 3000: 10/07/10

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Thursday, October 7, 2010. Anti-Rant: Berkeley Bionics eLEGS. This site will take a brief respite from ranting to anti-rant about the Berkeley Bionics eLEGS Demonstration. This is one of the best new technologies I've seen in a long time: restoring walking ability to paraplegics. Not just a pie-in-the-sky demonstrator, an actual technology, with actual paraplegics walking. Amazing. Having had an uncle who was paraplegic, and also a technology μManiac,. Read more at http:/ berkeleybionics.com/. REST is fu...

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Rant 3000: Why using REST will kill your project

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Monday, November 15, 2010. Why using REST will kill your project. REST is fun, but as with most things that are fun, it can also kill you. First off, if you don't know what it is, and don't be ashamed because I missed the boat for several years after it came out, go to the wikipedia entry. Everything looks nice and standard and "best practices" buzzword compliant future-proof, doesn't it? The core problem is architectural: using a high-latency high-overhead interface in internal APIs. This is where R...

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Rant 3000: 11/15/10

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Monday, November 15, 2010. Why using REST will kill your project. REST is fun, but as with most things that are fun, it can also kill you. First off, if you don't know what it is, and don't be ashamed because I missed the boat for several years after it came out, go to the wikipedia entry. Everything looks nice and standard and "best practices" buzzword compliant future-proof, doesn't it? The core problem is architectural: using a high-latency high-overhead interface in internal APIs. This is where R...

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Rant 3000: Anti-Rant: Berkeley Bionics eLEGS

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Thursday, October 7, 2010. Anti-Rant: Berkeley Bionics eLEGS. This site will take a brief respite from ranting to anti-rant about the Berkeley Bionics eLEGS Demonstration. This is one of the best new technologies I've seen in a long time: restoring walking ability to paraplegics. Not just a pie-in-the-sky demonstrator, an actual technology, with actual paraplegics walking. Amazing. Having had an uncle who was paraplegic, and also a technology μManiac,. Read more at http:/ berkeleybionics.com/. Lots of pr...