Almost all APEX applications I’ve been working with recently are used across multiple timezones, where many timezones uses DST (Daylight Saving Time) – that is basically almost all Europe and North America. The natural requirement is that users can see date+time information in their timezone time, reflecting if DST is active or not. Timezones and time conversions are always bit of mess and APEX is not supporting this completely out of box, but with small effort we can make our applications really global. Continue reading Timezones and DST in Oracle APEX
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Good Book About Javascript
I’ve have been working with Javascript here and there – always small pieces – as I know Java, C, Python I though that I do not need to learn anything special about Javascript, that I should be able to manage right away – In fact I somehow did, but I’ve been always bit struggling with some strange behaviours. Having to write couple of Firefox add-ons recently I decided to read some book about Javascript to shed a light on those anomalies – I found this book very good – Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford.
It relatively small book – I’ve read it in a few hours, but it gives you very good overview of all features of the language and show you how to write good and maintainable code in JS. Now I know that Javascript is very expressive language, where I can use some powerful features like functional programming, prototypes etc.