Monthly Archives: February 2009

Generate Yesterday’s Date Through Windows Batch

Posted on February 11, 2009 by ryelpango

Generating past date in a windows batch can be tricky. There doesn’t seem to be any date arithmetic functionality within the DOS kernel. There are a number of ways you can do it, but the one that works for me … Continue reading →

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DVR-MS to DivX Conversion

Posted on February 10, 2009 by ryelpango

Windows Media Center encodes its recording to DVR-MS (Microsoft Digital Video Recording). It’s video is encoded using the MPEG-2 standard and audio using MPEG-1 Layer II or Dolby Digital AC-3 (ATSC A/52). The result is high quality video with top … Continue reading →

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Improving Performance of Your Oracle Application Express Software

Posted on February 4, 2009 by ryelpango

I am writing this article with the thread http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=3205216&#3205216 in mind. We have a very large workflow application written in Oracle Application Express, supporting some 3000+ users. This application was written with care, for obvious reasons. Well for one, it’s … Continue reading →

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