Funny short jokes and aphorisms about programming (and programmers of course)

Here are some funny jokes and aphorisms about computer programming and programmers in general: There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t. It’s always a long day, 86,400 won’t fit into a short. Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25. “Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” very long pause… “Java.” Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

How to get the number of columns in a ResultSet in Java

In Java it is possible to retrieve the number of columns of a ResultSet dinamically, thanks to the ResultSetMetaData class. Here’s an example: // Here you get the conn object. E.g.: // Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(...); Statement st = conn.createStatement(); ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM your_table"); ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData(); int numCols = rsmd.getColumnCount(); System.out.println("Number of columns in your_table: " + numCols); The previous code retrieves and displays the number of columns of your_table.