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Go API Template v0.0.2

Hello Gopher community! This represents my first code release, albeit a minor one. I’m hopeful that this will be helpful. I believe in templates and am trying to put together a working API template from all the best practices I’ve found in the Go community. There’s more details on the github readme here Thanks!

October 20, 2017 Read

And then there was Go...

Eureka! After many many brushes with many different languages over many many years, I think I finally found the language that is right for me - Go! It’s hard to say why really, but something about learning this language feels right - it’s well thought out, has a great community and is making programming fun again for me. It’s built in http libraries are incredible. I’m just beginning, but this could be my forever language :)

January 9, 2017 Read

Drums: Frankenstein Practice

Had a great practice and took some fun footage of us playing Frankenstein. Edgar Winter Cover - Frankenstein

April 28, 2016 Read

Setting up OS X El Capitan for node development with node-oracledb

After stumbling through the setup of Oracle (for use with node and node-oracledb) on my new and first ever Macbook, I thought I’d put together a one pager on setup for those who may have had similar struggles. I was able to find everything I needed through existing pages, but I bounced around a lot to several different sites to find all the information and it took me several attempts. I tried to cobble all the steps together in a fairly verbose way as I had to learn certain things along the way…

April 5, 2016 Read

Drums: Raju Live @ O'Brien's

Fun show last night @ O’Brien’s in Allston. Friend of mine grabbed this clip with his phone. There is some troubling drum face happening here… John McLaughlin Cover - Raju

March 16, 2016 Read

Apex 5 - Minimize Left Sidebar Navigation by Default

You may find yourself in a situation where you proudly unveil your upgraded-to-Universal Theme app to your user-base after working on it for months with your beautiful wide screen monitor (page designer pretty much mandates this) and your user-base is not quite as happy as you thought they’d be as they don’t all have super wide screens and they, for some reason, have low-resolution monitors (like 1280 x 768 low). The users may think your super cool left sidebar navigation, which is maximized by default, is neat, but they’d actually prefer their space back… If you should find yourself in this situation, there is an easy answer!

October 15, 2015 Read

Raiser v0.5 - Committed to Github

I just released an early version of my “raiser” code for Oracle PL/SQL, leveraging OraOpenSource’s logger utility. I’d love to get anyone’s input and help with it. The Github project is https://github.com/gilcrest/raiser As background, I’ve used the Quest Error Manager (QEM) in my codebase for years, but have recently switched primarily to using logger for most things. There are a few things that QEM does that logger does not… In a highly distributed environment, you really need to be able to raise an exception to a user with a particular error message and unique identifier.

August 17, 2015 Read

My Path to node.js and Oracle Glory - Volume 3

Next step - node.js setup on Ubuntu. This was remarkably easy! I went to https://nodejs.org/ and viewed their Downloads section, where I then went to “Installing from package managers”. That link takes you to this URL on GitHub. If you read the first line of “Debian and Ubuntu based Linux distributions”, you’ll note you should go to nodesource’s blog post for the most up to date instructions. I did what I was told - read what they have to say on the page - helpful stuff!

March 16, 2015 Read

My Path to node.js and Oracle Glory - Volume 2

OK, so now having established my database server in Volume 1 of this series, I now need to move to the next step - setting up my chromebook with Linux in order to facilitate node.js development. I chose a chromebook as my dev machine of choice as I wanted something that natively runs on Linux, but didn’t want to pay as much as a Mac and didn’t really like the Linux based machine options out there… Google is doing a great job with these and after having my chromebook for a little over a week - I have to say I love it…

March 14, 2015 Read

My Path to node.js and Oracle Glory - Volume 1

I am starting a new personal project with the following goals in mind: Learn JavaScript (I’m a beginner, but been reading/implementing for a while) Learn node.js Create a RESTful API using node.js calling a remote database server using Oracle’s node driver (node-oracledb) API should be simple to understand API in the backend should use the HR sample schema When using node.js, goal is to form a service request object in javascript and pass that object to a stored procedure in Oracle as an IN parameter, the same stored procedure should return a response object that will be parsed in javascript and the results displayed DISCLAIMER - When I actually have free time to develop - I am primarily a PL/SQL developer – I love PL/SQL - there I said it!

March 9, 2015 Read

Name:Value Encryption Utility using PL/SQL

I recently ran into an issue where, as part of a webservice call I was making using the Oracle APEX_WEB_SERVICE API, I needed to pass the application id and password in the soap header, but I did not want those sensitive data elements to be exposed in my pl/sql code in cleartext. I decided I wanted to encrypt the data and retrieve it at run time as a function call. I tried to find a way to do this via Stack Overflow, Google, etc.

December 17, 2014 Read