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My goal is to help you work faster.
I must speak and teach until I hear 10 people say, "That thing you taught me? I used it! And it saved me time!"
(Ahem ... although maybe blogging slower than I'd hoped. Ugh, coders' repetitive stress injury.)
So check out the tutorials. Play with code. Tell me about your triumphs.
Anonymous PL/SQL to write a CSV from SQL
05 Oct 2020
As mentioned earlier today, I transformed Tim Hall’s Oracle PL/SQL “CSV” package into a block of anonymous PL/SQL, for times when it’s just not practical to create a “csv” package in your database. Below is my adaptation, with sample executions of it at bottom in the BEGIN … END block.
ORA-29283 hello world
05 Oct 2020
Recently I hit an “ORA-29283” or “invalid file operation” error when editing a long Oracle PL/SQL script. A shorter “hello world” PL/SQL script helped me narrow in on my problem.
Continue ReadingORA-29283 salut le monde
05 Oct 2020
J’ai reçu récemment un message d’erreur « ORA-29283 » (« opération non valide sur le fichier ») lorsque j’ai fait éxécuter un logiciel Oracle PL/SQL assez long. J’ai trouvé très utile un petit script genre « salut le monde ».
Lire plusSetting up Windows Store Python with Pandas in VSCode
01 Oct 2020
My beloved Spyder IDE suddenly stopped working on me, and I needed to install Python + Pandas on a new computer anyway, so I decided to explore installing Python (and various packages I use with it such as Pandas) out of the Windows Store, executing code in VSCode as an IDE.
Continue ReadingInfrastructure as code homework #1
21 Sep 2020
I’d like to get involved in a project at work that involves taking a tool comprised of a lot of databases and web servers (running Java in Apache Tomcat) and putting them into “the cloud” using best-practice architectures for installation, upgrade, maintenance, patching, backup, & recovery considerations.
After reading this helpful background about Tomcat by Secure Any Cloud, I think I’ve just come up with my first “hello world” homework assignment.
Configuring public-private key pairs so 2 Linux machines can talk
16 Sep 2020
Recently, I needed a sysadmin colleague to set up an ETL tool to make Linux Server #1 (on which the ETL tool runs) send a file to, and execute commands on, Linux Server #2. I had the privilege of watching and taking notes.
Continue ReadingStudy plan for GraphQL in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 Sep 2020
I’ve been collaborating again with Salesforce Marketing Cloud expert Kyle Griffin, this time thinking through what it would require to build SFMC data extensions from queries against an Oracle database.
Continue ReadingSanity datatable serializer for 11ty sites
10 Sep 2020
Playing with the 11ty (Eleventy) code from Knut Melvaer and Bryan Robinson’s sanity-eleventy-blog repo (from Sanity’s official tutorial on 11ty) and a Sanity project started using the built-in “blog” dataset, I got stuck adding Fred Jens’s sanity-datatable Sanity Studio plugin to the body rich-text editor of Sanity because 11ty threw an error: “Unknown block type ‘table’, please specify a serializer for it in the serializers.types prop.”
Sep. 9: Content creation panelist on Whiskey Wednesday podcast
08 Sep 2020
Sep. 9 at 9AM Pacific / 12 noon Eastern / 4PM UTC / 5PM British Summer Time, I’ll be livestreaming as a guest on Whiskey Wednesday, a new web development podcast by Marc Backes and Scott Spence. I can’t wait to join fellow panelists Randall Kanna, Rich Haines, and Jon Hilton.
Continue ReadingIntro to XML, JSON, & YAML: the book
04 Sep 2020
I wrote a book!
I'm honored by this lovely note from traditional sysadmin turned Salesforce admin + developer Kris:
"Thank you SO MUCH for making JSON and XML clear and removing the enigma and fear and ego from these topics."
Download or print your copy of Intro to XML, JSON, and YAML.
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