Archive for January, 2006

New name for HTML DB!

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 by Roel

Oracle officially renamed good old (?) HTML DB to Oracle Application Express. Look at their press release. Not everybody is too happy about that, for instance take a look at Scott Spendolini’s Blog. Someone even started a poll about the new name!
Popularity: 146 points

Popularity: 146 points

100% generated Designer Web PL/SQL user interface ugly?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 by Roel

Allways thought that a 100% generated Web PL/SQL application was restricted in lay out?
Then take a look at www.podhead.dk to see what a 100% generated web application could (or should) look like!
Danish is rather one of my weakest subject but IMHO a fine piece of work!
Popularity: 593 points

Popularity: 593 points

Internal LogicaCMG RADRace: Oracle ADF wins

Monday, January 23rd, 2006 by Robert Willems of Brilman

Last friday and saturday LogicaCMG organised an internal RADRace. The man who made the assignment was nobody other than Ivan Verborgh, the man who makes the assignments for the international RADRace.
The assignment was to make a webbased application with which people could apply for a license plate. It had to contain at least:

Multi-lingual screens
A webservice [...]

Popularity: 282 points

Java generics quirks

Monday, January 16th, 2006 by Jesper de Jong

One of the major new features of Java 5.0 is generics. The main purpose of generics is to provide you with a way to make type safe collections, for example, you can specify that your List contains only String objects. The obvious advantages are that the compiler can check at compile time that nothing else [...]

Popularity: 1986 points

Using Java could lead to death

Monday, January 2nd, 2006 by Jesper de Jong

We all know that Microsoft doesn’t like Java. But did you know that Microsoft in their license agreement even warns users that Java technology is potentially deadly?
Yakov Fain discovered this when he was reading a Microsoft end-user license agreement:
The software product may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant [...]

Popularity: 321 points