Want to be a Mac Developer? Well, OS X and Xcode makes it easy to start hacking your ideas into Apple applications. I started to ‘write’ a Hello World program using Xcode. In less than five minutes and no coding at all I was able to create what I had in mind:
#import [...]
In a previous post I went over Groovy closures. In this post I will show how you can extend a Java class so as to use it to construct a closure in a Groovy script. I’ll start by defining a plain old Java class with an array of data.
public class Sentence {
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I recently migrated one of our MySQL 3 databases to MySQL 5. I needed to export data from MySQL 3 and import it to MySQL 5. To export the data I had to do the following:
mysqldump -u username -ppassword database_name > FILE.sql
FILE.sql is just a ascii file with create and insert SQL statements. [...]
When working with a database sometimes you will want to look up all the available database tables. To show the available tables in SQL Server you can do the following:
select * from information_schema.tables;
In Oracle you can use any of the following statements:
select * from user_tables;
select * from all_tables;
In MySQL I have been using the [...]
Many people might be familiar with the File class. You need a File object for many of Java’s IO operations. In this Class High Lite article I cover some of the File’s least known methods and fields.
Please note that in all cases be sure to read the Java documentation, as it is the [...]
One of the database vendors that my company supports is Sybase. We have a Sybase database which we hit from JUnit tests but every once in a while a Sybase specific JUnit test will just freeze. I found out that the JUnit test would freeze because the Sybase transaction log would fill up [...]