Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
With the recent release of FlexBuilder 3 I have been trying to work through some of the instructions for customizing the LiveCycle Workspace using FlexBuilder 3 instead of FlexBuilder 2 (if that works we don't need to include FlexBuilder 2 in the software for the Adobe TechU). I didn't expect ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I had a client with a pretty weird issue with client certificates last week and I thought I would share and maybe save somebody some time.
The client needed to consume a SOAP webservice that was protected with 2-way SSL, i.e. with both a server and a client certificate. Because of ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Through the Planet PostgreQL site I found a nice paper that compares database internals. It provides an interesting read, even if you are not really into databases.
Architecture of a Database System
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker and James Hamilton
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The common misconception that a serializable transaction will single thread access to an entire table or even an entire database is pretty hard to eradicate. And the sad thing is that everybody just keeps repeating other supposedly informed sources instead of doing a little experimentation. So I have gathered some ...
Posted in PostgreSQL, databases | 5 Comments »
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Today was the start of the Adobe LiveCycle Technical U training program. This is a 3 week training specifically for Adobe partners on LiveCycle and Flex. The following is the set of other training courses that is combined into this one:
Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications
Flex 3: Data and ...
Posted in Flex, LiveCycle | 1 Comment »
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
In part 1 I showed how to adapt ColdFusion to work with PostgreSQLs native UUID datatype. In this part, I will show how to adapt PostgreSQL to accept ColdFusions native UUID datatype.
UUIDs: equal, but not the same
As ColdFusion developers are very aware thestring representation of a UUID in ColdFusionis ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
I set up a little test to measure the performance difference between native PostgreSQL UUIDs () and ColdFusion UUIDs stored as a CHAR(35) field in PostgreSQL. First the schema.
CREATE TABLE uuidanswer (
answerID UUID,
displayOrder INT
);
CREATE TABLE uuidtestAssignment (
testAssignmentID UUID
);
CREATE TABLE uuidquestionScore (
...
Posted in ColdFusion, PostgreSQL | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Today the PostgreSQL Global Development Group announced the release of PostgreSQL 8.3. The major new features that are most exciting to me are:
TSearch has been integrated into the core so PostgreSQL now has Full Text Searching without the need to install additional modules;
all the performance features;
a UUID datatype for storing ...
Posted in ColdFusion, PostgreSQL | 3 Comments »