1 Tech Giant’s Billion-Dollar Bet

Jun 17, 2012 | No Comments

[at Motley Fool] – Highlights from this week’s Motley Fool Money radio show.

Hiding an item conditionally through SPEL in OAF ( VO Extension + Personalization )

Jun 17, 2012 | No Comments

In this blog I will explain how to conditionally set property of an item through personalization.Let me discuss using a business scenario.
My customer wants to make Hold from Payment/ All Invoices column readonly when the Operating Unit is UK ( Conf…

Oracle VirtualBox… a good thing.

Jun 17, 2012 | No Comments

Now as anyone who knows me me will confirm, I have always been a long admirer of VMWare and their suite of excellent virtualisation products. I started with Workstation before switching to Fusion on OS X and finally made the jump to the way cool ESXi a…

Oracle Academy and UKOUG – a great team

Jun 17, 2012 | No Comments

Back in January I wrote about the Oracle Academy coming to the UK, or specifically coming to Oracle Scotland.At the OUG Conference last week the Director responsible for this initiative Caroline Stuart gave us an update on how this initiative is workin…

Resetting MS Windows Admin password

Jun 17, 2012 | No Comments

Of course, after all this time, I forgot the master password on the Windows Server image. Luckily, I have this bootable CDRom with password reset software. But this VMWare boots so damn quick, I can never complete the sequence Point Click to boot, CTRL…

KScope12… Ready… Set.. Go… \o/

Jun 17, 2012 | No Comments

ODTUG Kscope12 is just around the corner, yay!Plane ticket – check.ESTA – check.Passport – check.Hotel – check.Schedule – check.Ambassador signup – check.Community Service Day signup – check.Presentation prepared – check.Paper written – check.Demoscrip…

Weekly Outlook: June 18, 2012

Jun 17, 2012 | No Comments

[Optionetics] – Weekly Outlook: June 18, 2012

Pay Value trick

Jun 17, 2012 | No Comments

When Pay Value is filled, no fast formula attached to the element type will trigger. Basic stuff.But I learned recently that when a prorated fast formula is attached to the element type, pro ratio will kick in, and will eventually modify the Pay Value….

Quick Retropay

Jun 17, 2012 | No Comments

Oracle Payroll came with a new feature on top of 12.1.3: Quick Retropay. We had build a similar functionality ourselves before, but it is good to see we have it now out of the box.Quick Retropay comes as a concurrent program. You specify the assignment…