(Pinal Dave) Every single day, when I write blog posts, I am not sure what I will write tomorrow but I must express my gratitude to all of you, who keep on asking questions new interesting questions which made me write more.
Other News
C# Steps Up Programming Language Popularity Ladder
(David Ramel) Microsoft’s C# programming language climbed a year-over-year notch on the TIOBE Index, which measures popularity among developers.
The canonicalize() Function Will Decode Strings That ‘Loosely Match’ HTML Entities In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I started running into an interesting issue when using the canonicalize() function in Lucee CFML to normalize the encoding of a given URL.
Never use the same value for two IDs (or other values) in your tests
(Steve Smith) When you’re writing automated tests, whether you’re following TDD or not, you want to avoid the possibility of testing the wrong thing.
AutoUpgrade What I Did Not Know
(mdinh) After an upgrade completes with either Deploy or Upgrade modes, AutoUpgrade performs postupgrade checks.
Migrating databases using Dataguard, some pitfalls and observations
(Martijn Pronk) My customer needed to migrate to a new set of datacenters, and while other services were able to “lift and shift”, the Oracle RAC database servers had to be rebuilt in the new datacenter because the underlying platform wasn’t able to migrate the shared disks.
IBM Watson Studio: Download pandas DataFrame as CSV or Excel file
(Henrik Loeser) Right now, I am working with IBM Watson Studio on some analytics side project. It is nice to work with Jupyter Notebooks, Python and pandas and data again. Even Db2 is involved.
Using Static Files in APEX has never been easier !
(Roel) Almost every APEX Developer knows that JavaScript and CSS belongs in separate files and (in 99% of the use cases) not somewhere in your Page properties.
The crypto quirks using JDK’s Cipher streams (and what to do about that)
(Andrey Redko) In our day-to-day job we often run into the recurrent theme of transferring data (for example, files) from one location to another.
Avoiding the ‘WHERE clause wasn’t selected’ problem
(Rob Farley) …you know the one. In SSMS it looks like this: