The Fusion UX

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

“The User Experience – by itself – is probably enough to sell this product.”

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The early bird is flying away with your $500. So if you're coming to Oracle Open…

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

The early bird is flying away with your $500. So if you're coming to Oracle OpenWorld, register now. Extended early bird registration closes Friday, July 27. http://pub.vitrue.com/OTV6Catch the Early Bird Before It Flies Away With Your $500Source:…

Wrapper Project for NetBeans Projects

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

A great question in this blog by swpalmer recently:
I have a need for a custom project type that is mostly just a parent for existing NB project types for Java(Ant or Maven, soon Gradle) and C++. Think of it like a one project for a Java library tha…

Wrapper Project for NetBeans Projects

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

A great question in this blog by swpalmer recently:
I have a need for a custom project type that is mostly just a parent for existing NB project types for Java(Ant or Maven, soon Gradle) and C++. Think of it like a one project for a Java library tha…

Tools patches, zips and passwords

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

As mentioned last week, the way we locate patches has changed. One thing that I didn’t notice at the time was that the method of getting PeopleTools patches has also changed.
Previously, we just FTP’ed them from ftp.peoplesoft.com/outgoing/ptools, …

Unnesting Nested Loops

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

Lately I have been trying to help my non-DBA colleague to understand optimizer operations. Now that I am putting this effort , why not add it to my blog. I am going to be writing a series of blogs discussing optimizer operations.  Let me start the hon…

Making SQL Developer and EUS Work

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

Enterprise User Security (EUS) really appeals to me and so I was very keen to get a proof of concept up and running. It’s something I’d looked into in the past, but one thing or another had come in the way of actually getting it done. Mainly other …

Quotable Quotes

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

It started with a tweet from Tim O’Reilly. He mentioned a quote that I’m very familiar with – "Data matures like wine, applications like fish". When I read it I wondered if it was anything to do with. His tweet linked to a blog post cal…

Oracle Support to retire Flash version in August

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

Oracle will retire the My Oracle Support Flash interface on Aug. 10.
The company made the announcement to Support customers on Friday afternoon in a note from Dennis Reno, VP, Customer Portal Experience. Oracle has been updating the HTML user interface…

Oracle Support to retire Flash version in August

Jul 21, 2012 | No Comments

Oracle will retire the My Oracle Support Flash interface on Aug. 10. The company made the announcement to Support customers on Friday afternoon in a note from Dennis Reno, VP, Customer Portal Experience. Oracle has been updating the HTML user interface of Oracle Support, and advising customers to move over there as soon as possible. [...]