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Daily Archives Thursday, May 2008

A Quick Update

I owe you, my dear reader, a quick update. If you have been following me on Twitter, you already know that on April 23 I started a new job with a new employer. In the last three weeks, I have been adapting myself to the new environment. This is not easy to do after being [...]

Posted 15 May 2008 † Eddie Awad § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Dilbert on “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

Speaking of “measure once, cut twice,” here is a good Dilbert strip to get you in the mood:

Posted 15 May 2008 † Cary Millsap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Getting Ready for ODTUG

It’s been too long since I’ve blogged. I’ve been busy doing all the little things you have to do when you start a business over the past few weeks. You know, web pages, contracts, business cards, email, insurance, health care, payroll, bills, furniture…

Posted 15 May 2008 † Cary Millsap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX Performance Tuning Webinar

My good friend, Doug Gault over at Hotsos is doing a free (free!) webinar on Performance Tuning APEX Applications.
You can register for the webinar here, but here’s a snippet from the Hotsos site:

Application Express (ApEx) is a highly flexible and highly scalable Rapid Application Development environment for web applications. But what do you do when [...]

Posted 15 May 2008 † John Scott § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

A lot of APEX at ODTUG and Sneak Preview


Posted 15 May 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

10.2.0.4 aix

I just noticed 10.2.0.4 is out. I started downloading 1,916,781 KB !

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Posted 15 May 2008 † Laurent Schneider § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

How to cron?

RTFM is not the best answer …
man crontab
SunOS 5.10          Last change: 10 Nov 2005

User Commands                                          crontab(1)
     A crontab file consists of lines of  six  fields  each.  The
     fields  are  separated by spaces or tabs. The first five are
     integer patterns that specify the following:

     minute (0-59),
     hour (0-23),
     day of the month (1-31),
     month of the year (1-12),
     day of the week [...]

Posted 15 May 2008 † Laurent Schneider § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

European APEX Training Days in the Netherlands


Posted 15 May 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

truth behind the Rangers fans and the Manchester riots


Posted 15 May 2008 † Andy C § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Wavemaker Training Day 1

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

I mentioned the other day that I was playing with a new GUI builder from an EnterpriseDB partner, Wavemaker. Wavemaker, in addition to providing the software, provides some training that is downloadable fr

Posted 15 May 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °