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I work with Oracle databases doing DBA, Design and Development. I publish articles on my website and recently started writing books. My hobbies include Yoga, Karate and swimming.

Hosting Problems…

There’s an intermittent issue on server hosting oracle-base.com. If you have any trouble getting to the site, wait a while and try again.
Cheers
Tim…

Oracle AS… WebLogic… What?

I knew Oracle had bought BEA, so I knew they had acquired the WebLogic stuff, but I can’t remember reading that they had practically scrapped their own Application Servers in favor of it. The last I read about it was this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/oracle_bea_roadmap/

Yet a quick visit to the Oracle websites makes it look pretty clear that WebLogic [...]

Friendfeed is down…

I can’t get on to Friendfeed this morning.

I’m hoping this is going to start a rash of “Is the Friendfeed architecture flawed?” style posts like we always see about Twitter.
As everyone knows, the main reason to use social networks is to talk about how the architecture of the social networks are flawed. If all the [...]

Keeping it in the database…

I’ve mentioned a couple of times recently that I’m in the process of installing and moving a whole bunch of servers from our current site to a new location. Well the first phase of this process was completed over the weekend. The move involved a change in platform from Alpha to Linux for a few [...]

Do you smell burning?

Just before I left work yesterday I noticed a burning smell, kinda like the smell you get when you use a dusty old Scalextric. I couldn’t figure out where the smell was coming from so I went up stairs to ask a couple of the guys to help me sniff out the offending kit. By [...]

Resource Manager Enhancements in 11g…

I’ve just put another Oracle 11g new features article live:

Resource Manager Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1

Cheers
Tim…

My Dell laptop lives again…

I’ve been having a little trouble with my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop. Every few minutes the screen would go really dim, like it was in power save mode. Switching it to standby and back or remote desktoping to it would kick it back into gear, but that’s not exactly helpful.
Yesterday I rang Dell to see [...]

The Dark Knight…

I feel a certain dread at posting this because I suspect I’m going to get numerous comments from haters, but I wasn’t all that impressed with The Dark Knight. It was overly long, a bit whiny and moralistic and definitely took itself too seriously. A movie should be more than the sum of it’s parts [...]

Enterprise virtualization just got cheaper…

Vmware ESXi is now free:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/vmware_esxi_free/
Cheers
Tim…

Knol…

Looks like Google’s “Wikipedia Killer” called Knol has arrived. Check out this announcement.
I’ve created a bio and a Knol called Oracle. I expect lots official people will want to collaborate on that one.
Cheers
Tim…