Archive for February, 2008

LogicaCMG becomes Logica

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 by Administrator

The LogicaCMG group is unifying all its existing brands under one new name :Logica.
The LogicaCMG brand, along with the brands of Edinfor, Unilog and WM-data, will transition to the new global brand name in conjunction with the companies preliminary financial results for 2007.
Logica combines the local strengths of all its previous brands with the scale, [...]

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calculating differences in time

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 by Jasper

Ok, so there’s this very useful standard function called ‘ADD_MONTHS’ in Oracle, which gives you your date added with a couple of months.
Here’s a situation: two date (time) fields. I wanted to calculate the time difference between the two. And I mean the exact(!) time difference. Hours, minutes and seconds also. Now that’s not the [...]

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JRuby on Rails a first attempt

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 by Arjen van Schie

Two months ago we started with the development of a prototype application for a client of us. The goal of the prototype was to gather requirements and discuss them with the customer, which were non-technical users.
The prototype had to be constructed within a small time frame, so we chose to implement it with the JRuby [...]

Popularity: 741 points