Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Baby boy found in ‘Amma Thottil' (Cradle) at General Hospital, Kasargod

I came across this below article at dakshintimes web portal about a facility to avoid babies being disposed off or getting killed by people for various reasons which are best known to everyone. This facility will provide an option to a mother or father to leave the baby at the hospital without being noticed and hospital will give the baby to Child Welfare Development to take care of baby.

Baby boy found in ‘Amma Thottil', Cradle at General Hospital, Kasargod

Though this does not fix root cause of the actual issue (it will be an herculean task to come up with a solution and implement) but tries to provide a small step encouraging others who share same thoughts over helping others, to come up with ideas to solve the actual issue.

Fatal Vs Error

What is the difference between FATAL and ERROR log levels?

      The general description is as follows - FATAL level designates very severe error events that will presumably lead the application to abort. Whereas ERROR/CRITICAL level designate error events that might still allow the application to continue running.

      But, some scenarios where application won't abort can also be considered as FATAL when the availability of that specific functionality is mandatory for completing the task.

An example of a Fatal

      A use case where Database went down in the middle of processing a task can be considered as FATAL if availability of database is mandatory for completion of that task.

Monday, February 14, 2011

FinApps

FinApps are Financial Applications that run online over the internet on a web portal.

Various applications like Debt Calculator, EMI Calculator, Personal Finance Management, Transaction Categorization and etc etc can be developed which will be useful for users.

Now the question that you will get is even if applications are developed what about the Financial data to make them really useful.

There is an answer for it and it is Yodlee!!

Yodlee is a trusted innovative giant in Personal Finance Arena and has clientele of huge big banks of US.

Yodlee has brought revolution in the Personal Financial world and is the first one to think of or dare to open up their SDK to external developers. By this developers can register and develop Financial applications on top of Yodlee SDK and host them on Yodlee server.

As Yodlee already has a huge number of user base using their various products actively, applications will be really useful and be used by various interested users.

For more information, check out below links:

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Oracle Special Characters in LIKE clause

There are 3 Special Characters that should be taken care of while using LIKE clause in Oracle DB. They are % (percentage), _ (underscore) and ' (single quote).

The above link contains special characters of various db's like oracle, sql server.

-- how to escape those special chars