From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Sharing data between applications

July 24, 2009

Sometimes applications need access to data from another application. Here is one approach you could take:

Define a view in the database that owns the data - this view should expose the data that the external application needs
Grant select permissions so that the external application can select from the view
Create a synonym in the external applications [...]

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Adding items to Gnome menus

July 10, 2009

I’ve always wondered how to add items to Gnome menus. Well, it turns out it is relatively easy - as you would expect - and its documented here.
It’s as simple as creating a text file in the right place - refreshing easy compared to the binary shortcuts in Windows.
When I was working on ToolInstaller, [...]

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