The theme for today is file sharing apps that just work.
While browsing The Silicon Florist in my feeds today, I saw a post from Rick about Air Sharing, an iPhone app built by Avatron Software a company based in Vancouver (WA not BC).
As of yesterday, Air Sharing had 700,000 odd downloads in about a week, [...]
I’m sending a public information announcement out to the world…
Don’t buy Spore unless you want to lose several days of your life stuck in front of the computer. It’s the most infuriatingly addictive game I’ve ever played! You start life as a primative organism and gradually evolve into bigger creatures, then tribes, then civilizations, then move into [...]
Rich pointed me at this nugget yesterday.
Dropbox is a small utility that solves a major pain point you’re familiar with if you have more than one computer or you’ve ever needed to transfer files between computers.
At least once a week, I have to transfer files between my machines; this is an old problem we [...]
Over the past few months the team at Rittman Mead have been busy developing new course content and seeking out suitable venues for our first ever public course, the Oracle BI Training Days . This course is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about designing, developing and optimizing business intelligence systems using Oracle’s BI tools.
Unlike [...]
How do you create an RSS feed for a web page that does not have one? you use Dapper. That’s what I did with the Oracle database 10gR2 search result page. I used the Dapper generated RSS feed for this page in my oradoc Ubiquity command.
John already had an RSS feed for the 11g documentation [...]
LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
If you’ve read my blog for a while, you’ll realize that I have used different types of replication for a long time now. Replication (like Oracle Advanced Replication or Streams) has plenty of uses in d…
LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
If you’ve read my blog for a while, you’ll realize that I have used different types of replication for a long time now. Replication (like Oracle Advanced Replication or Streams) has plenty of uses in d…
As I prepare for my next trip to San Fran under the overly generous Oracle ACE Director program, I thought I’d post 10 things we (probably?) wont see at OOW08:
- Streakers
- Sessions on “how to deal with your pain-in-the-butt DBA”
- Larry’s keynote rendition of the great oom-pah Chicken Dance
- An exhibitor recommending their neighbour’s solution over their own
- Tom finally proposing a Developer-DBA hug-a-thon (awwww, give me a hug Tom!)
- Oracle running on the EeePC (Oracle XEeePC, or ZeepC)
- Oracle’s 2nd standard presentation disclaimer slide replaced with “Our word is your guarantee – or your money back”
- Out the door queues to get into the “OCI API in detail” session
- Oracle announcing in its latest round of acquisitions, it accidentally bought itself (apparently Oracle was a great acquisition opportunity as Oracle had great database market share and now Oracle owns 107% of the database market)
- Oracle staff wearing the new corporate tartan shirts (black on black doesn’t count as tartan)
And just for the record, I started writing this post after last year’s OOW. Incredibly trite humour like this takes a long time to prepare.