If you are new on the Linux platform, I am sure you feel overwhelmed with all the different versions available. Choosing one is not an easy task, and each version has its own pros and cons.

Let me tell you why I like CentOS:

• It is very stable
• It has …

The CentOS distribution is a famous and stable Linux version derived from RedHat Linux. It’s been one of my favorites and one that you can easily find with hosting providers.

In this article we will install CentOS and OracleXE. It’s worth mentioning …

Relaxing stroll in the desert.

Part of my work as a Web/UNIX developer includes maintenance and development of tools using Oracle’s Pro*C.

In text interfaces, VIM is a pretty decent tool for creating source code and their companion make files. If you created the right make file, …

Important: This is a work in progress document.

The Model-View-Controller is a software pattern frequently used for web development. As its name states, it is composed by three components:

• A Model or domain representation of a problem. It receives …

This post will be updated with snippets for Oracle. I hope you find it useful.

1. Change the default date format

Most useful snippet of the year! 😉

1ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS';
2select sysdate from dual;

2. …

Redirecting all your program output to a file is very simple and can be accomplished like this:

myapp > output.log

This line will send all the output generated by myapp to a file named output.log. The contents of output.log will always be …

RESTful operations on collections

Use pretty and RESTful URL’s.

GET /places 

returns a list of all places

GET /places/new 

returns a form to create a new place

POST /places

submits fields for creating a new place

Operate on a Record

GET /places/1 …

This weekend I was invited to have a remote presentation on Responsive Web Design with students from the Autonomous University of Queretaro (UAQ) in Mexico. Introductory concepts are presented in code, so you have the chance to apply them …

This time we are going to create a basic connection to MySQL in Java and pull some data from it.

// Compile it:
// javac Mysql.java
//
// Try it:
// java -classpath mysql-connector-java-5.1.27-bin.jar:. MySQL

import java.sql.Connection;
import …