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This is my first Flex/Flash/Action Script application. I always believed that the best way to learn new tool or language is to practice and try to create something useful, even if it is useful only for me. I frequently have to manipulate dates, convert them to other timezones, manipulate timestampls etc. So - here is [...]

Exception handling mechanism is a very important feature of PL/SQL. In most of the cases it is much simpler to just attempt an operation and properly handle the expected failure rather than to check for the conditions before attempting an operation. For example: it is much easier to unconditionally attempt to drop a table and [...]

Eclipse is able to validate any XML document on-the-fly if you provide a DTD. As you know, XML document is identified by one of two kinds of ID: public and system. The system identifier is basically the URL of the DTD defining the language used in the document. When you start editing an XML [...]

Recently I had to create a new workspace for my Eclipse. I like using multiple workspaces, it helps me to split the work into
different domains (one workspace for the current trunk, one for maintaining the previous release, one for the internal
tools - basically one workspace for each complex project). After creating the new workspace I [...]