Archive for August, 2008

WebUtil to the rescue: how to maintain client-side functionalities.

Posted on August 23rd, 2008.

Now that we have crossed the midway phase in our conversion phase, we started the evaluation of all the client side functionalities we used to have in our application. Fortunately, in Forms 10g, webutil comes already pre-installed.

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Why you need to worry about NLS_DATE_FORMAT !

Posted on August 18th, 2008.

One of those things that can irritate you for more than you can care of: the mix up in dates. That’s an old story for those dealing with the Oracle Db but in our case, that was something that bothered us for more than a week before we found out that we were missing the [...]

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Oracle Forms to Oracle APEX migration

Posted on August 11th, 2008.

Last week, one of our senior DBAs made a comment  regarding our current migration. Essentially, he was referring to Oracle APEX (formerly HTML-DB) and whether we looked at Forms to APEX conversion.
Management decided a while ago that we will be migrating to Oracle Forms 10g given that the in-house expertise is mostly Oracle Forms.

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Why you need a bugtracking system during an oracle Forms migration.

Posted on August 2nd, 2008.

Any software under development should have at least two essential systems, namely a source control system and a bugtacking system.
When we planned our migration, we did include a source control based on subversion but a bugtracking system was really not thought of. While we planned on using MouliForms as our migration tool, we did not [...]

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