Monthly Archives June 2009

Post-Conference Lull…

The conference finished yesterday at about midday, so I went into town with Chris Muir and Marcel Kratochvil to check out the aquarium. I managed not to get sunburnt this time. Later we met up for some food and basically chilled out. I’ve added some more photos here.
I leave for San Francisco airport in a [...]

ODTUG 2009 Update

I decided fairly early on that ODTUG would be an APEX conference for me. I’m trying to go to as many APEX talks as possible as a fact-finding exercise.
I’m a DBA and PL/SQL developer, so I don’t have a foot in either the APEX or ADF camp. I was expecting this conference to help me [...]

Oracle ACE Directors Briefing…

I spent the day in the Oracle ACE director’s briefing at the Oracle head office in Redwood Shores. We had to sign none disclosure agreements, so I can’t tell you all the “secrets” we were told.
Don’t tell anyone I said anything, but Oracle are releasing a games console. It looks amazing and will blow the [...]

I like my new MacBook Pro, but…

A few days ago I bought a MacBook Pro to replace my previous Dell laptop. It looks very pretty and for the most part I’m really happy with it, but there are a few things that are really annoying about OS X. The one that is bugging me the most today is File Associations…
You can [...]

Why should I leave early for the airport?

Q: Why should I leave early for the airport?
A: Because your taxi might be in an accident and you might get your bags trapped in the boot!
I’m not hurt and I have my bags now. Getting on the flight to San Francisco in a few minutes.
Cheers
Tim…

Fedora 11 and Oracle 11g…

It’s that time again where I check to see if Oracle installs on the latest version of Fedora. The result once again is yes, it does. The main website has the links to the articles. I would add links here only the browser on this internet cafe machine doesn’t support cut & pates.
When [...]

WordPress 2.8 Release…

WordPress 2.8 has been released, so get upgrading…
Cheers
Tim…

Elbow Update…

Just been to see the surgeon for my 7 day checkup. He’s really happy/surprised by the recovery so far.

Grip Strength: My grip strength is almost normal now. He was expecting it to take up to 6 months.
Pain: Apart from the day after, I’ve had almost no pain. I’ve only used the pain killers when the [...]

phpBB 3.0.5 released…

A couple of days ago I mentioned the volume of spam on my forum. Now 3.0.5 has arrived, maybe that will help…
Cheers
Tim…