All posts tagged with 'Java'

Division by zero

26-May-08

Just a quick reminder for myself: int a = 0/0; // Throws ArithmeticException double d1 = 0/0.0; // d1 is NaN double d2 = 1/0.0; // d2 is Infinity double d3 = -1/0.0; // d3 is -Infinityint a = 0/0; // Throws ArithmeticException double d1 = 0/0.0; // d1 is NaN double d2 = 1/0.0; […]

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SCJP, finally!

06-May-08

More than a year ago i decided to do the Sun Certified Java Programmer. Shortly after i bought this book, the projects at work and at home were somewhat overwhelming and after all, i realized that a big part of the SCJP is about some weird, crazy and sometimes wrong design decisions of the Java […]

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Tired of all the powerpoint presentations…

23-Apr-08

Right now i’m in Wiesbaden, attending the JAX 2008 conference. The mood is somewhat different compared to the DOAG i used to visit the last years. The people are more open minded, partially much younger and generally try to be much cooler. And for the sake of it, some are even more interesting and after […]

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JDBC: Autogenerated keys revisited.

02-Apr-08

Some months ago i wrote about retrieving auto generated values with JDBC from an Oracle Database: JDBC: Get autogenerated keys on a Oracle DB. The solution i presented in the previous article doesn’t run in a Oracle Java Stored Procedure. To accomplish this, use a callable statement like this: final String sql = "BEGIN INSERT […]

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Feeling dizzy…

26-Mar-08

After staring at this for about a day in various rotations and flips just to get Oracle GeoRaster work together with a homebrew GIS like application made me feel somewhat dizzy. To be cartesian or not cartesian, that is the question 😉 Otherwise, Oracle GeoRaster works quite well, at least for that bunch of german […]

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