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Providing Rest Clients Nearly as Bad as Publishing SOAP Contracts - Even still, many developers and architects have continued to emotionally cling to the SOAP bad old days, wherein the contracts between a server and a cli...

Coding without IF statements - Found below linked article that provides tips on how to avoid using IF statements, with one of the benefits being readability. The tips largely are based o...

How to check if I have write permissions to an Oracle table - SELECT CASE WHEN COUNT(*) > 0 THEN 'YES' ELSE 'NO' END AS PERMISSIONS FROM (SELECT privilege FROM (select * from dba_tab_privs where (grantee = 'MY_USER_N...

Setting oracle user password to same password - Followed this blog: http://www.dbas-oracle.com/2013/04/Keep-Same-Password-for-Oracle-User-when-Expiry-Time-Reached.html First off caveat emptor regarding d...

Algorithms and OOP - In addition to DCI, "generic programming" as well as the move to functional programming appears to add nuance to the OOP notion of joining behavior with da...

Select Statement Transactions and Isolation Levels - http://docs.oracle.com/javadb/10.5.3.0/devguide/cdevconcepts15366.html Shows how isolation levels are pertinent to reads, i.e. select statement transaction...

rbenv vs RVM - RVM is responsible not only for changing Ruby versions, but for installing rubies and managing gemsets, as well. ...Along with rbenv [to manage ruby versi...

My Rules for Code Logic Clarity - - All accesses of maps should be in a separate private method describing the outcome. A good example is the isReader() method in the ReadWriteLock class sh...