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Auto-Increment ID’s in Oracle

This is old news to most people who have been using Oracle for a while, but to me this is something new that I learnt today. How to have MySQL like “auto-increment” id’s for your tables in Oracle. :) Here’s an example…

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Making Editable Tables With Catalyst and TableKit

Catalyst is an MVC web-development framework for Perl, very similar in concepts, ideas (and even some of the implementation) to Ruby on Rails. I’m using Catalyst a lot in my job now, and one of the first challenges that i’ve had to go through is making dynamically editable tables for some of the views we are using (in other words, Ajax driven edit-in-place tables).

Following a short Google, there seemed to be only two ready-made options I could see: one, using the Catalyst controller module Catalyst::Controller::ROSE::EIP; or two, by integrating and using the stand-alone javascript package TableKit.

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