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Tags: bomb, common-lisp, gigamonkeys, google, lisp, Peter-Seibel, tutorial
Inspired by this article by Peter Seibel, this is me helping (mainly him too) the Lisp community. So here is a Common Lisp tutorial.
Tags: 2007, Code-Tester, EAST, New-Jersey, OPP, Oracle, PL/SQL, Quest, Quest-Software, test-driven-developement, TTD, unit-testing
The last session of the day included a first look at Quest Software’s PL/SQL Code Tester which brings something very new and exciting to the world of Oracle development, easy and intuitive regression testing! Very much like JUnit for Java, Code Tester brings a great UI to the user and offers the ability to quickly create test cases.
Of course the skeptics at this point will start spinning their worst PL/SQL function calls in their heads. Attempting to think of the impossibilities of such a task. Be assured cursor variables, collections, and even hierarchal data have all been considered. Granted, the … Continue Reading
Tags: 2007, EAST, error-handeling, errors, New-Jersey, OPP, Oracle, PL/SQL, raise, raise_application_error
Session three turned out to be great! The subject matter was on error handling in PL/SQL and how while Oracle 10gR2 has fixed a few issues with PL/SQL error handling, there is much more that each developer can do to increase the usefulness of errors to developers and the verbosity for users. As a bonus it was given by Steven Feuerstein who has a great presentation style. I will admit I do not agree with everything he presents, but at least he does it in a way that keeps me listening.
What he did covers was usefulness of the DBMS_UTILITY package … Continue Reading