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Daily Archives Monday, August 2008

3 x Location

A couple news items from last week have me thinking about location-based services again.
First, a location-based social networking tool called Shizzow launched a private beta. Similarly to other services (Brightkite, most notably), Shizzow helps you stay in touch with people IRL, but the secret sauce is that you don’t have to know the address of [...]

Posted 18 August 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

When I conduct an interview…

This post is a follow up to a thread (”How do you conduct technical interviews?”) that carried on for quite a while on the Oracle-L mailing list (you should consider joining if you aren’t already on the list). Here is my contribution to the discussion that started with the eternal question “How do you find [...]

Posted 18 August 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

4 things I read more recently (about REST)

I’m currently swamped doing non-blog stuff. But still I seem to take time out to read other blog entries, this time on REST web services. Ok, ok, I know, REST isn’t strictly web services, that’s why I’m reading ;)

Following are 4 posts about REST I checked out more recently that you might be interested in:

Hmmm, suddenly it doesn’t feel like REST is the cool-kid on the block anymore.

Posted 18 August 2008 † Chris Muir § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Case study on some rowcache internals, cached non-existent objects and a describe bug

I got a question regarding Metalink note 296235.1 about a describe bug which causes objects to “disappear” when they are described when database is not open.
It was an interesting case involving a bug, so I wrote a quite long analysis with test cases today. However when posting the entry to wordpress, it managed to completely [...]

Posted 18 August 2008 † tanelp § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

My Oracle Business Intelligence Open World 2008 Schedule

Doug Burns’ posting of his Open World schedule made me think about mine yesterday evening, and so I fired up the Schedule Builder application (which now uses Oracle Data Mining to predict which other sessions you might be interested in, presumably based on what others who picked this session have also chosen) and got to [...]

Posted 18 August 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °