Browsing posts in the ‘Tutorials’ category
CouchDB 1.0 on Windows
In case you haven't heard by now, CouchDB 1.0 was released earlier this month. One of the questions I've been asked most about CouchDB is how can one go about installing it on Windows. Up until recently, there were a few hacked installers available, each...
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Tags in Oracle Nested Tables
Tags are a useful means of associating keyword metadata with a data structure such as an image, a video, audio or a piece of text. There are many ways of storing tags in a database - for example one could store a string of tags...
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Schedule Twitter Posts
Many people (myself included) often post an update to Twitter when publishing a new blog post. WordPress (the blog software I use) and most other blogging platforms include a nice feature that allows you to schedule blog posts to be published at a particular date/time....
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Twitter for WordPress on 2.7
Today, I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.7, and while most of the upgrade went smoothly, I did notice that my Twitter plugin wasn't showing new tweets anymore. I initially thought maybe it was a caching issue, or I had run out of API calls...
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Irish Domain Name Registration
To follow up on yesterday's post on the different Irish companies that provide shared web hosting, I decided to put together a similar piece on Irish companies that offer domain name registration services. I have listed the companies in alphabetical order, and the minimum criteria...
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Irish Shared Web Hosting
On a previous iteration of my blog I wrote an article on the different Irish companies that offer shared web hosting services. Many people have asked since about this article and I said I would put it back up once I got my blog sorted...
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Install Apache and mod_owa
In order to develop PL/SQL applications on Oracle XE, we are going to need to install a web server (Apache) and a PL/SQL gateway for Apache called mod_owa. On a regular Oracle Application Server you would probably be using Oracle...
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Oracle Database Basics
In this tutorial, I will be looking at the basics of Oracle databases, namely, the creation of database tables and inserting of data rows. I will be showing you two ways of interacting with the database: 1.) via Oracle's Application Express Web-Based Interface; and 2.)Via...
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Install Oracle XE
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (I will refer to this as Oracle XE from here on) is a basic version of the Oracle Database 10g that is freely available for development, deployment and distribution. It is an excellent entry-level database for learning Oracle and PL/SQL...
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