Archive Jul 17, 2012
Apex – closing modal page on escape
I’ve been making use of the Skillbuilders Modal Page plug-in a fair bit recently, and I thought I’d share this little ditty on closing the dialog when the escape button is pressed.I set the event to Key Release, using the ‘document’ DOM object.The Java…
How do you define great customer experience? Take a glimpse inside the Experienc…
How do you define great customer experience? Take a glimpse inside the Experience Revolution, an Oracle special event held last month in New York. For more, see http://facebook.com/OracleCustomerExperience
Disconnection Will Be the New Black
Reading The Connected Viewer: More Than 50% Of Cellphone Owners Now Use Their Phones While Watching TV reminded me of a modern problem I’ve been meaning to discuss, i.e. the value of doing nothing. Specifically, these piece of information rang the b…
Microsoft Software Licensing, Audits Confound CIOs
[at The Wall Street Journal] – Microsoft Software Licensing, Audits Confound CIOs
Great Minds Build Robots Controlled by Phone or Something
So, this is a happy coincidence.
Remember how Noel (@noelportugal) built Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots controlled by phone, specifically using Twilio (@twilio)? Well, apparently, great minds hack alike or something.
Jonathan Gottfried (@jonmarkgo) a dev…
Xeon E5-2600 Server Boards on Oracle HCL
We are happy to announce that Intel
Server Boards based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family are
now certified on Oracle Linux 6.2 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 and Oracle VM 3.1. The certified servers have gone through
com…
Xeon E5-2600 Server Boards on Oracle HCL
We are happy to announce that Intel
Server Boards based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family are
now certified on Oracle Linux 6.2 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 and Oracle VM 3.1. The certified servers have gone through
com…
Idea of U.S. Companies Adopting IFRS is Over
As I was drinking my triple espresso in the cafeteria and reading yesterday’s article on CFO.com called SEC Staff Pulls Back on Accounting Convergence, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The long-standing issue of converging U.S. GAAP and IFRS was being p…
Idea of U.S. Companies Adopting IFRS is Over
As I was drinking my triple espresso in the cafeteria and reading yesterday’s article on CFO.com called SEC Staff Pulls Back on Accounting Convergence, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The long-standing issue of converging U.S. GAAP and IFRS was being p…
Performance tuning the R12.1.3 Upgrade
Question from EBS DBA:
We are up to our sixth pass and are on our seventh and perhaps last one. The past two times have taken longer than the previous ones (I’m talking like 8-12 hours per on the 12.1 and 12.1.3 patches). Doesn’t seem like a lot bu…
