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The best day and the worst day…

Thursday, December 26th, 2024

I have sold my current boat, Fin and Tonic, a 19 foot Flying Scot. This boat has seen many races at Chatfield lake in Colorado, and has always been a solid competitor and very dependable. The best day and the worst day are when a boat owner buys and then sells their boat.

I hope to continue sailing boats, possibly going back to a more simple O’Day DaySailer (floating bathtub) for relaxing on a lake such as Aurora Reservoir that is a sail only lake.

I made the choice to spend more time focusing on school work. I have about 30 more credit hours of dissertation work to complete, along with several papers to publish to earn my PhD in Computer Science. This is still a challenge while working full time. I am finding that the more time I spend in the program at UCCS, the more I want to continue to research. I don’t think I will ever stop participating in AdventOfCode type of contests to stretch my algorithmic skills. This year’s contest was a lot of fun, and I have three part 2 problems to complete. It is a real truth in this type of contest that the best part is the journey. In the end, the feeling of accomplishment is amazing too!

Once I get my first paper published, I’ll post a link.

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Jumble revisited

Saturday, November 21st, 2015

Here is a jumble example in Perl.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Algorithm::FastPermute ('permute');
use Text::Aspell;
my $arg = shift or die "takes one arg";
my @arg = split(//,$arg);
my $speller = Text::Aspell->new;

permute {
	if ($speller->check(join("",@arg))) {
		print "@arg\n";
	}
} @arg;

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UCM: Search, GetFile, Checkin with PL/SQL

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012

“Proof of concept” programming in many cases is the first draft of a finished product. Several of my starter programs are in the download section of this blog. They are PL/SQL programs that demonstrate simple Checkin, GetFile, and Search functionality. Besides using RIDC, when needing to retrieve content or Check-in content, these little programs can really help.

These are just proof of concept programs, so you will need to add any additional logging. Also, this program uses functionality originally found in flex_ws_api. This can be found on Jason Straub’s blog. Flex_ws_api has also been incorporated into Oracle’s Application Express in the APEX_WEB_SERVICE API. This code has also found its way into Alexandria, a PL/SQL Utils library.

With just a few additional lines of code, you can pull documents out of a database, and check them into UCM. All with PL/SQL code.

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APEX-O-MATIC – In a Blender with APEX and Web Services

Monday, November 1st, 2010

That’s the title of my accepted presentation at RMOUG 2011. I thought it was fun to come up with that one! Hope to see you there!

RMOUG Training Days 2011, February 15-17, in Denver, Colorado

See paper on Downloads page!

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Oracle Portlets with multiple datasources

Friday, March 12th, 2010

I just finished creating an updated portlet for work. There were two changes that were needed, data from two different database instances and the format was changed to use <dt> and <dd> tags. This allows for a rolling scrollable format to be defined by a cascading style sheet.

I thought this would take a couple of hours, so estimated this at about four hours to complete. Now I’m finished, and it is six hours after starting. So what went wrong? The biggest mistake that I made was not really understanding what happens when the files are bundled up for deployment. When creating the two separate model projects, I used the same name for the package name. I was using different names for the model projects, so no problem, right? Wrong! When the files get packaged, the package names are used in a combined classes directory. Since I have two different bc4j.xcfg files defined, one of them gets clobbered and I get an obscure jbo oracle error.

If you are using multiple models in a project, just use a unique package name for each one, and things will go much better for you! Though, it might still take six hours instead of two…

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Favorite Linux Command

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 
find . -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} \;

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