Information Systems Grad School

When you switch languages a couple of times a day, you begin to confuse some syntax and notice differences between the languages. In one week: get basketball tournament application working again. (PHP) Get Java app connected to Derby open-source database for my Java class (handed in to my professor before class meets, but implemented in a class). Get VB (6, not .net) apps working for Decision Support Systems class (targeting zip codes) and Databases class (rental car system). Get VBscript flight-risk scoring system working. While Visual Basic and VB Script are close, they’re not the same. You can dim intX as int in VB, but you can only dim intX in VB Script.  (The again, my server doesn’t even let me do option explicit: The specified 'option explicit ' option is unknown or invalid.)

And while you can do a Adodc.recordset.recordsize in VB6, Java (1.5) has no resultSet.recordsize. So when I do a query in VB using ADO, I know how many records I have; but in Java, I have to do while(recordset.next()) { recount++} (source). So my obsolete version of VB knows how many records are in my set, but the latest version of Java does not. I’m sure there’s a reason for this, I just don’t know what it is. I haven’t figured out if there’s a recordset size() function/method in PHP yet. I wonder if Ruby on Rails has one available – I’d check but the RoR API documentation isn’t searchable.