Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
Ok, by now you know Oracles table adapters are broken. Just searching on google for a solution turns up a significant number of other people having the same issues. Broken code, bad ODP crashes inside devstudio etc etc etc. Google turns up nothing but bad news when you’re looking for ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Image via Wikipedia After speaking to one of my friends about this, I must point out that my current client *IS* actually switched on enough to correct the situation by providing the best equipment they possibly could. It’s as pleasant change to have ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I’ll never understand how some people in IT departments don’t grasp the value of a developers time. Its a false economy to provide anything but the absolute fastest PC for a developer. I’m not really sure where the real problem lies. ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Ok, not really part three but a quick post about how the last two posts arrived at the blog in the wrong order. I can’t be bothered swapping them round so just read from the top down ;)
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
This stuff really does tire me out. I’ve spent yet another day battling with Oracle’s data provider instead of doing anything meaningful. I’m calling a stored procedure with an out parameter of a varchar2. I assign an OracleParameter in exactly the same way as the stored procedures , same order ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Ok, after spending another 1/2 day battling with the oracle tools for devstudio, i took the plunge and reflected the whole Oracle Data access component. I’m not sure I should be publicly admitting to reverse engineering Larry’s baby but if its the only way I can find out what broken, ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Apart from not understanding how to catch trains properly for the first 2days, everything’s going pretty well. The team is switched on, and the work is interesting so its all good :) What I do find a bit puzzling is that other than Sheffield station there’s no way to ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Image by Neil T via Flickr Ok, so after after a short break over Christmas, I though I’d better pull my socks up and start looking for a new contract. As everyone returned to work on the 5th of Jan, I wasn’t expecting ...
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