Justin Biard - ICODEALOT

Exporting Basic SVGs From Photoshop

For simple tasks, like mocking up SVG icons to embed inline on a web page, I don't always want to break out Illustrator, setup a canvas and fiddle with curves. If I am already in Photoshop switching applications takes time and mental energy.

Life

Technical Debt or Contextually Correct Examples

1) Always read outdated posts while understanding the context in which they were written. 2) Feel free to send errata in context.

Life

Two of My Favorite Things

For the past decade+ I have worked in consulting; architecting and building solutions for customers all over the United States. It has been an amazing and rewarding experience. Today I

Life

My Friend

Why does bad stuff happen to good people? The "logical me" knows bad stuff happens to everybody but it is most painful when it seems undeserved or happens

Nashorn

Update Knockout.js View Models in JavaFX WebViews from Nashorn

Learn about updating Knockout.js models from Nashorn / JavaFX which is a challenge because the Model and Controller code are not running within the browser.

Oracle SQLcl

Preview of Charting in SQLcl via Oracle JET, Nashorn and JavaFX

This is an example of connecting SQLcl and Oracle JET using the Nashorn scripting engine. Oracle JET application templates are deployed behind the scenes and data is loaded interactively from SQLcl sessions.

Oracle SQLcl

Bridge the SQL-Java-JavaScript Divide with Nashorn and Oracle SQLcl

Learn about writing Java classes and JavaScript programs for use with Oracle SQLcl and other Nashorn-based applications that run on the JVM.

Art

Summer'17 Digital Painting

A sample of digital art from Summer-2017 that I have been working on.

Oracle JET

Integrating Vue.js with Oracle JET

Before we get started, and for those of you who don't know what Vue.js is, here is a short description from the project website. Vue (pronounced /vjuː/, like view) is a progressive framework for building user interfaces. Unlike other monolithic frameworks, Vue is

Oracle JET

Using the New Oracle JET CLI

This is a quick post about using the new Oracle JET CLI (JavaScript Extension Toolkit Command Line Interface), hereafter just ojet. This CLI is new as of May-2017. Prior to using ojet, the approach to deploying Oracle JET scaffolding was to leverage a series

Careers

Infrastructure is Dead, Long Live Infrastructure!

If you have worked in the infrastructure and software installation business for Oracle EPM and BI over the last ten years, it may look like tough times ahead. With Oracle driving business to flood the market with Cloud solutions, the number of clients signing

Node.js

Oracle JET Native Apps with Electron and Node.js

Oracle JET (JavaScript Extension Toolkit) - hereafter JET - is a collection of open source JavaScript technologies for building client facing web applications. Oracle had this to say about it: [Oracle JET] is targeted at intermediate to advanced JavaScript developers working on client-side applications.

Node.js

JSON to SQLite on the Raspberry Pi with Node.js

Whatever label you put on it - Cloud Computing, Something as a Service, Web Application, Etc... - there is no shortage of hosted software running on other people's servers. 'Tis the season for "RESTful web services" integration and JSON is definitely in

Swift

Sending HTTP POST Requests to ORDS from Swift

In this example I am referring to a RESTful web services framework created by Oracle however, you could substitute your own web server / web application framework / RESTful service as well. Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) sits on top of the Oracle database and allows

Essbase

Calculate Sum-Product in Essbase Using MDX

In Microsoft Excel you can calculate the sum of products (A x B) for multiple lists of numbers (arrays) using a formula such as =SUMPRODUCT(D3:F3, D4:F4). Some common examples of when you may need this include weighted averages or an accumulated

Node.js

Get Multiple Redis Hashes in Node.js

Redis is an open source, scalable, in-memory, key/value store. It can store various types of values (Strings, Lists, Sorted Lists, Hashes, Etc...) with built-in commands for each data type. This post is not about setting up Redis or configuring your environment. I am

Hyperion

Business Rules To Launch Them All

So you have yourself one of those fancy on-premise Oracle EPM systems built with Hyperion Planning and Oracle Essbase. If you didn't do that or don't plan to do so, then you might want to skip the rest of this post. Introduction When you

Node.js

Convert Data to Base64 in Node.js

I was recently working on an internal project and needed to convert some Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images to Base64 encoded strings. The files were very small (< 500 bytes). This particular application required all HTML content to be "inlined". Whatever your

MS-DOS

Batch Scripts Can Not Suck

Note, I am assuming you are familiar with Microsoft Windows, possibly batch scripting, or at least have some interest in the topic. If you didn't know, the world is rife with batch scripts that suck. Common side-effects of batch scripts that suck may include:

Oracle SQL Developer

SQL Developer 4.1 and SSH Tunnels

In a presentation by krisrice and thatjeffsmith at KScope15, Jeff pointed out some new features including one for creating SSH tunnels using SQL Developer. SQL Developer is an all purpose (and free) development environment for the Oracle database. This feature looks like it should

Hyperion

Intro to Version Control for Oracle EPM

Find out how to go from "zero to version control" in less than 12 minutes. In a previous post I wrote about using version control tools with Oracle EPM. Based on all the feedback I received from that post I thought I

Hyperion

Pragmatic Version Control for Oracle EPM

This story does not have to end on such a sad note. Stories like this one can happen any time we open up a system for change. The rest of this post shows examples of how to use version control software with Oracle EPM.

Node.js

Node.js Syntax Highlighter

Update: In general my preferences (and requirements) have evolved slightly and I have switched from using pre-generated HTML in practice to using Prism.js... for now. That said, I still use highlight.js as noted below but wanted to point this out in case

VBscript

Dynamic Methods in VBScript

Drawing Hands by M.C. Escher, 1948 Lithograph. One challenge that comes up with VBScript is "how to make your scripts modular" so that you don't have to repeat code in multiple VBScript files. When building automation frameworks for example, it is

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