I’ve heard the future of Open Source during a recession debated quite a few times recently. It’s a pretty hot topic now, what with the downturn in full effect.
Andrew Keen, the author of “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”, blogged (irony noted) his thoughts earlier in the week. They [...]
Well, I’ve just realized that for the first time in what must be six months, I’ve not got any course material, presentations, articles or blog posts to write. Today was the last day of our inaugural BI Training Days event, and now that the event has finished and the material has all been delivered, I’m [...]
Another post from the archives… HTML Expressions is a feature in the Application Express reporting engine that lets you apply an HTML mask to a column value in a report. In the HTML Expression, you refer to the column…
If you don’t use Twitter, proceed at your own risk of boredom.
If you’ve used Twitter for a while, specifically the web interface, you may have noticed you followers count fluctuates without any rhyme or reason. Well wonder no more.
I read about Qwitter in Mashable last week; it’s a very simple service that notifies you when [...]
Miracle Oracle Open World is claims to be the best conference in the world. It claims that the “best” rating is not because of the number of attendees, but I disagree–the (relatively small) number of attendees is one of the things that makes this event great! There are less than 200 attendees here, but a [...]
I have started working with object types and “mining” the data dictionary views for related information so I can generate useful reports. For the most part, the views are clear and helpful. I am stumped, however, when it comes to determining the kind of method found in the object type (static, constructor or member). How can I get this information?