Month archive | Alessandro Lacava

May 2020

28 May 2020Desugaring for comprehensions (AKA for expressions)

September 2016

14 Sept 2016Keep your code clean with algebraic data types (ADTs)

October 2015

23 Oct 2015Scala: Seq, Map and Set as functions

May 2015

22 May 2015Scala case classes in depth

March 2015

30 Mar 2015Scala self-recursive types

February 2015

20 Feb 2015Scala DSL for currency-related operations

June 2014

20 Jun 2014Try-Success-Failure API for Java 8

October 2011

13 Oct 2011Goodbye Dennis Ritchie (dmr)

March 2009

26 Mar 2009Reopening a closed tab in Eclipse

January 2009

30 Jan 2009Object not found | EasyPHP | MySQL | phpMyAdmin

December 2008

3 Dec 2008Java split() of String | Multiple whitespace characters

July 2008

22 Jul 2008OutOfMemoryError in Eclipse | Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

June 2008

4 Jun 2008Performance differences between IN and EXISTS
4 Jun 2008NOT IN vs. NOT EXISTS when NULL values are involved

May 2008

March 2008

31 Mar 2008How to disable all the elements of a form using JavaScript

December 2007

12 Dec 2007How to get the number of columns in a ResultSet in Java

November 2007

26 Nov 2007Capturing groups using regular expressions (RegEx) in JavaScript

October 2007

9 Oct 2007How to compute the timestamp in JavaScript
9 Oct 2007How to compute a timestamp in Oracle (PL/SQL)

September 2007

25 Sept 2007Very Useful Shortcuts for Eclipse
14 Sept 2007How to attach source or Javadoc to the Java Enterprise Edition API in Eclipse

July 2007

4 Jul 2007How to create a copy/backup of a table in Oracle

June 2007

4 Jun 2007How to exclude Subversion hidden directories (.svn) using Ant

May 2007

24 May 2007How to commit a single DML statement in Oracle (PL/SQL)
4 May 2007How to format a decimal number in JavaScript

April 2007

27 Apr 2007How to put a set of rows into a single row in Oracle
26 Apr 2007How to tell Oracle to use more than one byte per character

March 2007

14 Mar 2007How to exploit UltraEdit-32 to highlight code based on file extensions

February 2007

16 Feb 2007How to display an element in the center of the browser

January 2007

16 Jan 2007How to detect the selected checkboxes using JavaScript

November 2006

24 Nov 2006How to add scrollbars to a block (e.g. a <div> element)
20 Nov 2006Sorting an array of objects with the sortBy method of Prototype

October 2006

11 Oct 2006Why you shouldn't be concerned about optimization
10 Oct 2006How to select any character across multiple lines in Java

September 2006

22 Sept 2006How to include a .js file (a JavaScript file) within another .js file
13 Sept 2006Java passes EVERYTHING by value!
13 Sept 2006What happens if you write something like a = a++ in Java?
6 Sept 2006Using dynamic SQL statements from PL/SQL
1 Sept 2006How to hide/show an HTML form element depending on a combo box choice

August 2006

21 Aug 2006POJO (Plain Old Java Object): The simpler...the better.

July 2006

27 Jul 2006Calling a function of the opener window
24 Jul 2006Creating a class definition in JavaScript
12 Jul 2006How to force one or more metacharacters to be treated as ordinary characters in a Java Regular Expression (RegEx)
11 Jul 2006Creating an instance of the object used to make AJAX calls

June 2006

20 Jun 2006Using the ProGuard obfuscator through the Wireless Toolkit
14 Jun 2006The Function class in JavaScript
8 Jun 2006How to store and extract XML data in and from an Oracle database (DB)

May 2006

12 May 2006Using JavaScript to detect the key pressed
2 May 2006The name-separator character in Java

April 2006

13 Apr 2006Hello world!