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Daily Archives Wednesday, July 2008

Little Things Doth Crabby Make Part V. Oracle Professionals Have No Experience Beyond Oracle. Didn’t You Know That?

Learning “New and Exciting” Things About Really Old Stuff
…that’s what Max Kanat-Alexander seems to be doing based upon his recent Oracle-bashing rant. Now, I’m not calling Max to the mat because I’ve learned that the Web grants virtual get out of jail free cards to people earning a living developing free stuff, and I have [...]

Posted 02 July 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Little Things Doth Crabby Make Part V. Oracle Professionals Have No Experience Beyond Oracle. Didn’t You Know That?

Learning “New and Exciting” Things About Really Old Stuff
…that’s what Max Kanat-Alexander seems to be doing based upon his recent Oracle-bashing rant. Now, I’m not calling Max to the mat because I’ve learned that the Web grants virtual get out of jail free cards to people earning a living developing free stuff, and I have [...]

Posted 02 July 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Has Everyone Forgotten “Keep It Simple, Stupid”?

OK, we all love a clever piece of code to do something a little bit tricky, but has everyone lost sight of the benefits of simplicity?
My case study for the day, a thread on the Oracle forums in which various all_objects, user_objects, connect by, MODEL, xmltable, and pipelined function techniques are suggested for generating a [...]

Posted 02 July 2008 † David Aldridge § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

You’re not famous until you’re on the cover of an international magazine

Many a budding fashion model becomes world famous when they’re first printed on the cover of an international magazine like Vogue. Obviously the same rules (must) apply to the IT market. I’m betting your fame also soars if you make it onto the front of Oracle Magazine, which apparently has over 100,000 subscribers around the world!

As you would have noticed (of course you did), I managed to make the front cover of the May/June 08 edition of Oracle Mag.

What, you can’t see me?

I’m row 15, picture 23.

Or is that row 23, picture 15?

Or is it….. oh, never mind, the important part is:

See. Me. Front page. Instant Oracle celebrity. In all my black and white 0.5cm x 0.5cm glory. My Mum is going to be so proud.

For any future photo ops, please contact my agent.

(Normal JDeveloper transmissions will resume on my return from teaching an Advanced Oracle Developer course ….. hey, if Richard Foote can have an ego, so can I ;)

Posted 02 July 2008 † Chris Muir § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

The moment you’ve all been waiting for…

No, no, not the Brangelina twins announcement, the numactl output.$ ps -ef | grep oracleoracle 13771 2418 0 Jun24 pts/0 00:00:00 -kshoracle 13772 13771 0 09:24 pts/0 00:00:00 ksh -ioracle 13775 13772 0 09:24 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -eforac…

Posted 02 July 2008 † Jeff Hunter § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Quick life and presenting update…

Just a quick post to let people know what is going on in the next few weeks/months…
UKOUG DE SIG
I’m speaking at the UKOUG DE SIG on the 10th July. Andrew Clarke had a free slot so I offered to speak to help him out. I owe him a few favors and it is on my [...]

Posted 02 July 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Taking the Plunge: Part 2

Over the weekend, I finally made the decision to reimage my laptop, which currently runs XP, to Ubuntu 8.04, fondly known as Hardy Heron.
Well, I dragged my feet, and the weekend ended; XP must not have got the memo because it’s being more temperamental than normal. It’s complaining about disk space on C; it’s killing [...]

Posted 02 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Green is the New Black

I’m sure that phrase has been used somewhere else, hopefully under Creative Commons.
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the green movement has gone from non-existent to a hot-button topic seemingly overnight? The recent Tesla factory announcement has me thinking green lately.

I know it’s been around for decades; I’ve been recycling since [...]

Posted 02 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °