If you’ve been away, welcome back, and by the way, I’ve been blogging our design process for the changes we need to make to support OpenSocial in Connect.
Today, Rich posted a few new mockups today of his vision for our Connect (and ultimately, Mix) OpenSocial UI.
The first mockup shows Rich’s vision for the OpenSocial app [...]
A few items from last week caught my iPhone-centric eye. I figured you were all jonesing for iPhone stuff, so here they come.
Push Notification
I think by now, everyone with an iPhone running 2.0 firmware and a few apps understands why apps should run in the background. Seriously, how useful is AIM if you have to [...]
I’ve mentioned a couple of times recently that I’m in the process of installing and moving a whole bunch of servers from our current site to a new location. Well the first phase of this process was completed over the weekend. The move involved a change in platform from Alpha to Linux for a few [...]
[Absolutely nothing to do with Oracle, but maybe a lot to do with why we do what we do ....]
Well, maybe what 2 weeks away from the interweb gives you is a little perspective.
Whilst catching up on blog postings, I noticed this one from Peter K. (Oh, and let me plug Peter’s blog again. I rest assured he’ll have something of meaning to say, based on experience. Very much my cup of tea.) Despite having 60+ ‘real’ emails to work my way through, including a couple that Yahoo’s spam filter caught in the 2000+ spam mails (not a bad effort), I sat and watched this video for an hour and a quarter this morning, then watched the time management video and then started watching the TV special. But the TV special isn’t working for me, so I paused briefly for this post.
On the simplest level, Randy was clearly an excellent speaker and I think I’ll leave it at that. Let’s not let the undoubted emotional back-drop detract from that. Like some of the best presentations I’ve ever seen, it might be light on technical detail, but the message stays with you.
Oh, and I’m sorry if this is very old news, but I’d never seen the videos so, just in case you haven’t either, I recommend them. Forget the sentiment (you probably will after 5 or 6 minutes) and just watch a smart, apparently honest man do what he clearly loved doing.
P.S. If you have any remaining doubts about watching the videos …. a) Cuddly Toys on stage during a presentation. b) The concept of Tiggerish-ness (whilst not specifically named). What’s not to like?
If you like the stuff in my blog or my conference sessions, you will sure like my seminar 
I’m happy to announce the dates of my first public Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting seminars:
Vienna, Austria
03.-04. November 2008
Düsseldorf, Germany
06.-07. November 2008
Munich, Germany
10.-11. November 2008
Zurich, Switzerland
13.-14. November 2008
The above four seminars are organized by Trivadis
Vilnius, Lithuania
18.-19. November 2008
Riga, Latvia
20.-21. November 2008 [...]
LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
Chapter 1: MySQL Architecture
Chapter 1 is an overview of the MySQL architecture. The chapter doesn’t get very deep into MySQL internals (thats not the books focus) but this chapter provides an excellent fast track understanding of how MySQL works at a fairly detailed level. This chapt
LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
Chapter 1: MySQL Architecture
Chapter 1 is an overview of the MySQL architecture. The chapter doesn’t get very deep into MySQL internals (thats not the books focus) but this chapter provides an excellent fast track understanding of how MySQL works at a fairly detailed level. This chapt
I’m just starting an installation of Oracle APEX 3.1.1 into one of our development ebs instances for 2 reasons.
- To provide a small applet to a project team
- To provide the infrastructure for the dbas to write their own little applets.
I chose this method for the following reasons (unordered)
- it’s fairly cool
- we know pl/sql much better than java
- we don’t much like forms.
- you can integrate really easily.
- deployment is pretty simple.
Those of you that have installed apex frequently will know it’s a pretty quick install on decent hardware. So the following came as rather a surprise.
timing for: English Dictionary
Elapsed: 00:03:16.71
– Updating user account expiration. ——-
timing for: Upgrade
Elapsed: 00:00:00.43
…End of install if runtime install
…create null.sql
timing for: Development Installation
Elapsed: 01:03:48.57
That’s right over an hour. The reason for this is that with 3.1.1 APEX calls DBMS_STATS.GATHER_DICTIONARY_STATS(’APEX’); this spend almost 55 minutes performing inappropriate index lookups on the data dictionary for us. This might be solvable, though to be honest it’s probably not worth it, but just a heads-up really, the APEX install may take longer than you think in a large environment and with the latest version of the software.