January 2006
6 posts
Updating and inserting an xml attribute
Wrote a little java function that does what I need. Oracle’s JDeveloper version of XMLDom doesn’t support Xpath so I have to search every node by hand and then find the one with the attribute set to the value I want to find, sigh. Then I update the attribute I need to update. However it does work so fine. Ok says I, now that I know what to do let’s translate it into PL/SQL. I’m convinced that the...
Oracle XMLDB - is it a bag of spanners?
This is driving me nuts There’s a new type called XMLtype. I can retrieve data from it no problem. I can update an entire node no problem using XMLUpdate method, but it won’t let me update attributes. If it does I can’t find an example anywhere. If an attriibute wasn’t supplied but you want to put it in .. how do you do it? Only half of the necessary methods have been implemented. For those non-UK...
Fun with the Emacs Psychotherapist
I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice. yarbo adnf hfodnde bbdyyer a Why do you say yarbo adnf hfodnde bbdyyer a? yhnfhhd ddfdbb gfffasd ettetdfdsad Is it because of your plans that you say yhnfhhd ddfdbb gfffasd ettetdfdsad? bbdfdasdft tte fdfdf dasdfd egr gdffdasfasdf asdf d ffhhhfd hdhfd fdhhdhfdjh hdha ...
Defector
XEmacs is a nice GUI. Problem is, most of the handy little utilities you need are written for GNU-Emacs and they don’t work too well. I wanted to get a function like the vi `dot.’ function, that simply repeats the last command. It’s not there in XEmacs. This has been in GNU-Emacs for ages, and there is a patch for XEmacs, but I don’t have the energy to mess about building one or contacting the guy...
XEmacs & Lisp - TOAD replacement
Over the Xmas break I followed a link from the Joel on software blog (see linked entry) and got to an on-line version of The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which got me looking at Lisp again. I’ve been translating the examples from Scheme to Common Lisp. At this level it’s mainly changing define for defun and moving the function name out of the list. I believe that the two...
Standing on the feet of others
If you ever want to suceed at doing anything interesting or original read this: “If I have seen further than others, it is because I’ve stood on the shoulders of giants.‘’ These days we stand on each other’s feet!