Roy has posted an incredible Regex too. Check it out.

    ....a bit more info on JAVA, this time related to the *.class files it uses.

    I'm not a JAVA programmer, but I can learn things pretty quick. I've encountered a situation where it's necessary to program in JAVA so I'm doing a bit of background digging. I found this article introducing the basics behind the JAVA class loader; seems rather bizarre to me...I can't justify my statement yet, but something just seems hackish.

    Check this article out.

    I wish I would have stumbled across this article sooner - there is sample code included with it that implements many of the providers available in ASP.Net for an Oracle 10g database (and if you've been monitoring my blog lately, you see it's something I've been interested in).

    Is it me, or is this not the most disturbing advertisement ever? One of the single-most frightening parts of this whole operation is that it shows up in a hermetically sealed container looking like a face hugger from Aliens the movie.

    I'm starting a repository for all my public source, apps, etc. at http://www.ben-rush.net/source. I'll still post code here (and when I put new stuff up there I'll point to it from here). There's really no content yet, but there will be eventually (I have a lot of code on my machine, it's just a matter of getting around to sticking it online). A lot of it is concept code, and so you should be REALLY careful when using it - it's not tested and many bugs and security holes probably exist. Just an FYI....

    Currently the only code that's up there is rough implementation of code implementing the provider models for ASP.Net in ODP.Net. Again, concept code...so tred carefully...

    Good read for anybody - hopefully this will be a wake up call to the community.