14,726 kms later (9,150 miles) I’ve touched down in San Fran for OOW08. Once again the epic battle between jet lag and OOW rages on. Today jet lag definitely wins with no sign of sleep on the plane. However over the next week the excitement of OOW will throw itself at jet lag, and we’ll see who comes out triumphant.
All in all a rather silly post to let others at OOW know I’ve arrived and keen to catch up, so drop me an email.
Oh, and if anybody would like to recommend a good coffee joint San Fran downtown besides the usual franchises please let me know. Is it even possible to get a “flat white” in the USA?
Another last minute update… at 10:56am PDT today, Jake suggested we get stickers for next week. I thought it was a fabulous idea. So, I immediately went to work at creating a sticker design. In a few minutes I cranked this out:
AppsLab sticker v1
This design was set at 1″ x 2.5″ — a perfect size [...]
It’s now 21:45 German time and I have no news about what is going on. It looks like a straight flight to SF will cost and extra $4,400 and someone has got to decide who is going to pay it. Oracle Travel are being really cool, unfortunately this is a three-way conversation between Oracle Travel, [...]
So, yet another last-minute OpenWorld announcement, but that’s how we roll. We’re going to host an informal hackathon at the OTN Lounge during the conference.
The OTN Lounge will be in Moscone West, Third Floor, coincidentally right near the Unconference sessions, which should work out well.
So, we’re calling it informal because Rich, Anthony and I will [...]
Justin teased this earlier in the month, and today, Oracle Listens took over oracle.com.
I’m glad they overcame the hiccups that initially postponed its launch, and I’m nervously waiting for a flood of email to hit our support distribution list.
If you read here, you’ll remember that we’ve shifted our focus to Connect, our internal social platform [...]
I’ve not made my connection to San Franciso.
What seems to have happened is when Oracle Travel booked the flight with Star Alliance, they booked the first leg with Lufthansa and the second leg with United via Lufthansa. Lufthansa had me on list of passengers, but United didn’t. It was a United plane and [...]
Well it’s been a long time in the making, but the Pro Oracle Application Express book that I wrote (with a chapter on Themes and Templates contributed by Scott Spendolini) is finally shipping!
I started working on the book way back and it seems barely a week has gone by since when I haven’t been asked [...]
Actually I do know when I will be back, but I wanted to carry on with the line from the song.
Just thought I would write to say article production and forum duties will probably be very limited over the next couple of months as I’m doing a bunch of conferences. Sorry if this [...]
SQL is a case insensitive language. That means, you can write any SQL statement in uppercase or lowercase.
SQL> SELECT DUMMY FROM DUAL;
D
-
X
SQL> select dummy from dual;
D
-
X
Some formatters like Toad and some courseware like Skillsoft E-Learning advise to use UPPERCASE for commands and lowercase for tables and columns.
/* Formatted on 2008/09/19 10:00 (Formatter Plus v4.8.8) */
SELECT [...]