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Daily Archives Monday, April 2008

RIP orablogs, welcome apexblogs.info


Posted 21 April 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Data Visualizations

After a slow Twitter weekend, I stumbled across a new Twitter tool, TwittEarth, via Mashable.

This is a beautiful representation of Twitter’s public timeline, similar to twittervision, but with goofy avatars in 3D. It reminds me a lot of the work stamen design has done with Digg, e.g. arc. The visualization shows how many people are [...]

Posted 21 April 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle ApEx and BI Publisher

I’m running a BI Publisher course this week, and one of the areas the client was really interested in was integration of BI Publisher with Oracle ApEx. As the notes on OTN and various blogs are sometimes a bit confusing, I thought I’d do a quick walkthrough of how the integration works. Setting up BI [...]

Posted 21 April 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Cube-Organized Materialized Views

As Mark mentioned and illustrated last week, I really did have an audience to my talk on Cube-Organized Materialized Views. He also managed to choose a camera angle for one of the photos that made the conference room look completely empty, but thankfully that was not the photo he published. In fact the presentation went [...]

Posted 21 April 2008 † Peter Scott § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Street Kings…

I went to see Street Kings at the weekend. In summary, good cops, bad cops and cops that don’t know if they are good or bad.
Keanu Reeves is OK. Forest Whitaker if very over the top, with a few scenes of frantic head wobbling. Not sure what to make of him.
It was OK, but it [...]

Posted 21 April 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

35+ Oracle Subdomains You May Not Know About

Here is a list of public Oracle.com subdomains that I know about. In no specific order:

docs.oracle.com
tahiti.oracle.com
etrm.oracle.com
irep.oracle.com
forums.oracle.com
otn.oracle.com
oss.oracle.com
mix.oracle.com
wiki.oracle.com
blogs.oracle.com
asktom.oracle.com
education.oracle.com
crmondemand.oracle.com

metalink.oracle.com
metalink3.oracle.com
academy.oracle.com
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Posted 21 April 2008 † Eddie Awad § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °