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Daily Archives Tuesday, November 2008

Best Invention of the Last 20 Years?

Meg’s comment on my post about TiVo (note to self, add TiVo to iPhone as a topic that gets lots of comments) got me thinking about the best of the last 20. She said:
I have said often that Tivo is the best invention of the last 20 years, in my life it is equal to [...]

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

Investigating the Oracle BI Management Pack for OBIEE and DAC

Although I posted the other week about having finished all my presentation writing, in fact I’ve actually been working on and off on a couple of fairly big demos. One, that I’ll try and post about soon, is an attempt to get all of the EPM 11.1.1 (or even, EPM 11.1.1.1) software up and running [...]

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

Athens (Greece)

I am very conscious that I have not posted much on this blog recently. In part the technical stuff has been surfaced through the company blog - I get in to trouble if I say Mark’s blog because it is the company one now, an in part because of a load of domestic events have [...]

Posted 18 November 2008 † Peter Scott § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Carl Backstrom

A very quick note - there’s a very long one on Streams coming, with real code and everything, to say that Carl Backstrom’s family have updated his blog with details of how to give in memoriam to this most excellent technologist and evangelist. Go here and donate appropriately please.

Posted 18 November 2008 † Niall Litchfield § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

First Ebook Coming Soon

Well, I pretty much have the first book written. It is a SQL newbies guide called SQL Starter - DML. In it, I give the details about DML. I plan to follow on with two more in the starter series, Intro to Relational Databases and SQL Starter - DDL.
I…

Posted 18 November 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

more fun with keyword searches

The gift that simply keeps on giving.

‘914 scam’ - if you don’t know the correct name, you may already be doomed to failure.
‘reasons for isolation’ - spending too much time on the Internet searching for ‘reasons for isolation’.
“craig gordon”…

Posted 18 November 2008 † Andy C § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Anychart 5 integration kit for APEX

A few days ago we released our Anychart 5 integration kit for Oracle Application Express (APEX).BackgroundAPEX has the ability to create (flash) charts. They are based on an older version of Anychart, version 3.3. Although these charts are already nice…

Posted 18 November 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °