April 25, 2014 • 2 minute read
In this article, you will learn how to build a simple Node.js application and deploy it to IBM's BlueMix platform. BlueMix makes it easy to deploy your apps into production, and provides a variety of services that simplify common tasks such as data storage, caching, mobile servic...
April 24, 2014 • 2 minute read
One of the side projects I'm currently working on is a quick online ONIX for Books file validator utility. The tool is built using Node.js and Express, and I quickly ran into an issue with handling file uploads. Searching Google didn't help all that much, particularly when it com...
December 20, 2007 • 4 minute read
Flickr Services API is nothing new, and if you're using PHP, ASP.NET or any of the other major languages, there is plenty of documentation available to get you started with putting Flickr functionality in your web application. If you're using PL/SQL, however, you're stuck to comi...
December 5, 2007 • 13 minute read
I've put together a comprehensive example for paginating and sorting a table of data in a web page using PL/SQL. This example uses the all_objects table, so should be usable on any Oracle database. It is fully commented and should be pretty self-explanatory. The example uses two...
November 27, 2007 • 3 minute read
Because PL/SQL does not have the same support for arrays that other programming languages have, handling checkboxes in HTML forms can be a bit trickier than you might expect. An example on how to handle checkboxes is available on Oracle's documentation on Developing Applications...