Since my bad leg precludes yardwork – and anyway, it’s raining – I tackled another long-overdue chore today, updating my MSDN subscription DVDs.
I dropped my subscription almost two years ago, but there’s still a lot of useful software, and this morning, I finally threw out all the deprecated versions.
In the meantime, I’ve been reading about AJAX, REST and JSON, residents of the wonderful world of SOA, and finally loaded the JDK 6, which includes JavaDB, on my laptop yesterday.
Since I don’t have a database front end, I had to execute SQL queries on the command line to test the install, and it brought to mind something I hadn’t thought about for years, running PL/SQL commands in the same way against Oracle 7.x.
Similarly, since I haven’t yet installed NetBeans, I had to test the Java install by writing a couple of test programs in Notepad and compiling and executing them on the command line.
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!