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We had to import an sql script delivered by a US based company in an Oracle 11g database. Everything went fine except for to_timestamp function that had letter code month values. All to_timestamps with MAR for March failed. As not being a dba I searched around bit and found out that the database we’re importing in should be set to American language and American Territory. Quite logic actually.
But it didn’t help.
Continue reading “Note to self, set NLS parameters for Oracle DB Clients”
2011 Brought me a new challenge. Since February I’ve been working on the iText® library, a library for creating PDF with Java (or C# ). This is quite a change, instead of working on products/sites/applications at the client sites, I’m now coding in-house in corporation with the founder of iText® and another colleague of mine.
Since iText seems to be the leading PDF library for Java this is an interesting project. Upon entering the project I introduced maven in it. ( I couldn’t resist the urge to mavenize)
Continue reading “Working on iText®”
loadUI – A load testing tool with a nice looking graphical JavaFX gui, definitely worth to take a look at. It can integrate with soapUI and run distributed (e.g. on Amazons infrastructure.
Activiti – an ASF Licenced business process management tool that came forth of jBPM. It allows you to create your business process (in diagrams, allowing you to add your own diagram if needed ), you can embed activiti in your application, it embeds in the database, transactions, domain model, tests and spring configuration. For some things a system like this can be useful. A friend of mine summarizes a bit more here