Thursday, November 5, 2009

Needing an Oracle driver

This days I'm in the need to integrate current projects with Oracle databases, since most of my projects are X-VR2 0.7.2.1 based, maybe the opportunity has come to develop a native driver for that RDBMS.
So now that the need is here, what should we expect from such driver? Well same as the others, thread safety, automatic type conversion, seamless integration to the xvr2::DB namespace.
The question, do I use OCI or OCCI ? Maybe OCCI is the best approach since it is C++ targeted, but OCI is in a lower layer and might have more features, we'll see, need to evaluate all pros and cons.

Via twitter I said I'll be starting such project in a few hours, sadly I couldn't start it right away but I promise to post as soon as any new developments appear.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

I have conficker worm's cure

After spending a whole night coding I finally found how to stop conficker once and for all!!!!
Just don't use windows anymore.

jajajajaja

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

iPhone OS 3.0 developer preview, sweeet!!!

Wow, right now Apple is holding a conference unveiling a developer preview to their iPhone OS 3.0, good things were announced today:
  • Cut&Paste support
  • Application push functionality, the ability to push notifications to your apps, things like "there's a new updated for your application, download a new version"
  • In-app content distribution and purchase.
  • Bluetooth goodness, now we will have more access to bluetooth functionality/programmability, we will be able to share files and stuff, really good
  • Enhancements to spotlight.
Right now I'm waiting to get into http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ to see the new stuff but its content is still blocked, I assume that we will be able to see the new stuff there as soon as they have all the content up and running.
On the bad side, the update to 3.0 will only be free to iPhone 3G, but for ipod touch users there will be a small fee of $9.95