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Counting Lines in Text Files

04 Sep 2014
When the only thing you want is the overall line count grand total…

Ivy Settings for Ant

24 May 2014
Ivy settings for Ant

PowerCenter XML - Problem using Booleans

23 Dec 2013
I had an xs:boolean data type which remained unresponsive to 0, 1, false, true, ‘false’, ’true’ values.  In other words, the transformation was not evaluating these values correctly (or at all) in my XML parser transformation.

AdFind - the Command Line Active Directory Query Tool

15 Nov 2013
An example of using AdFind - a command line A.D. query tool…

OID Connectivity for Oracle

25 Oct 2013
OID files for Oracle connectivity based on LDAP without needing local - and possibly out-of-date - tnsnames.ora files.

Nicer Displays with Vim

12 Aug 2013
Adding nicer syntax highlighting.

JDBC Timeouts

29 Apr 2013
Statement timeout vs. statement leak timeout vs. connection timeout…

Monitoring Oracle Max Cursors for JDBC Connections

10 Apr 2013
What to do about ‘maximum open cursors exceeded’ in Oracle, caused by your JDBC application.

Is My Website Up?

21 Mar 2013
A basic curl command to check if a web site is available…