Thursday morning the Illinois public transport system came through for me again. I took the Metra train north from Union Station (which was seething with inbound commuters) to Prairie Crossing (Libertyville). At Prairie Crossing I met Paul and Justin from 8th Light and then Justin drove us to the office. The 8th Light office is in an small business…
In this Issue: Adam Kinney, Jonathan van de Veen, René Schulte(-2-), Vikas, Chad Campbell, Chris Koenig, John Papa, and Martin Krüger.
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"Silverlight TV #54:…
Designing a table can be a little complicated if you don’t have the correct knowledge of data types, relationships, and even column properties. In this tip, Brady Upton goes over the column properties and provides examples.
"It really helped us isolate where we were experiencing a bottleneck"- John Q Martin, SQL Server DBA.…
In this Issue: Mohamed Mosallem, Tony Champion, Gill Cleeren, Laurent Bugnion, Deborah Kurata, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Tim Heuer, Mike Taulty, John Papa, Martin Krüger, and Jeremy Likness.
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Well we did it. We made our 100th recording. It also had a record breaking attendance of over 100 attendees. So check it out, our 100th recording on Software Craftsmanship with Robert Martin. Thanks for everyone's help and support over the last few years. Zachariah Young http://virtualaltnet.com
5,307 people pay attention to the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page. Here are the Top 10 posts from that page for the last seven days, August 8-14, 2014.
Podcast: ODTUG Kscope 2014: Anatomy of a User Conference - Part 3
There is more to a great user conference than a shared interest in Oracle products. In the final segment of this 3-part…
I recently purchased Robert Martin's book Clean Code. Although all the exampels are in Java, 99% of the book applies to C# programmers. This articles summarizes some of the main points.
I recently purchased Robert Martin's book Clean Code. Although all the exampels are in Java, 99% of the book applies to C# programmers. This articles summarizes some of the main points.
Leaving tonight for Oracle's CFO Summit in Atlanta, GA. Will be sending live tweets out over @OracleProfit with updates of the proceedings. Economist Martin Neil Baily will be presenting information about the state of the economy, as will prominent Oracle executives and members of the financial services sector. Should be an informative…
More than once I have come across the issue where we have had a problem using an X509Cert from the certificate store. Everything is configured properly in the certificate store but when we attempt to create the signature we end up with a cryptographic exception for no apparent reason. See CryptographicException: The handle is…
You need to provide the necessary keywords and define the XQuery and value expressions in your XML DML expression in order to use the modify() method to update element and attribute values in either typed or untyped XML instances in an XML column. Robert Sheldon explains how.
"It really helped us isolate where we…
This is how penny auctions work; the auction product?s price gets higher by a few pennies as every valid bid is submitted. The bidder?s payment is made per bid basis against the product, and the time... [Author: Martin Filion - Computers and Internet - April 10, 2010]
Dites-moi quelle est votre adresse e-mail, je vous dirai votre niveau de connaissances en informatique
Que l'on soit ou non client chez un FAI, nous possédons presque tous au moins une adresse e-mail. Le blog satyrique The Oatmeal s'est ainsi lancé dans l'analyse de la personnalité d'un internaute en fonction de l'adresse e-mail…
Siba Prasad: Oracle Database on Amazon RDSg
Siba Prasad share an analysis of the pros and cons.
(tags: oracle database cloud amazon)
LIVE WEBCAST March 24 2pm PT- Why Switch from Red Hat and SUSE Linux to Oracle Linux? (Oracle's Linux Blog)
Featuring…
Google I/O Sandbox Case Study: Eureka Streams
We interviewed Lockheed Martin at the Google I/O Sandbox on May 10, 2011 and they demoed their product, Eureka Streams, and explained to us the benefits of using web toolkit to build it. Eureka Streams is a social communication platform built to help individuals in large…
If you want your website to start dominating the search engines for certain keywords, the first step is doing On Page SEO. The fact is that if your own website is not correctly optimised for keywords... [Author: Martin Sejas - Web Design and Development - April 10, 2010]
OTN Architect Day - Boston - Sept 12: What to Expect
If you've never attended an OTN Architect Day, here's a little preview. You start with a continental breakfast. Then you have keynotes by an Oracle expert, and a member of the Oracle ACE community. After that come the break-out sessions, so you have your choice of…
In this post, Martin (the language's head honcho) writes:
[XML literals] Seemed a great idea at the
time, now it sticks out like a sore thumb. I believe with the new
string interpolation scheme we will be able to put all of XML
processing in the libraries, which should be a big win.
Being interested in…
Google I/O 2012 - Introducing Google Compute Engine
Craig McLuckie, Martin Gannholm Google Compute Engine is a new virtual machine based cloud technology for large scale data processing and analytics workloads. It allows the world to leverage the scalability and power of Google's data centers to run…
You started facing the fact that your shopping cart doesn';t satisfy the needs of your business? Think about the idea of switching to CRE Loaded which would make your online store more effective. I un... [Author: Martin Wann - Computers and Internet - April 24, 2010]
When building your own website there are a few things to consider. If you know nothing about web design, you will need to pay someone to design it exactly the way you want. It';s important to make sur... [Author: Omar Martin - Web Design and Development - April 25, 2010]
<b>Martin's Blog:</b> "as you wanted to have a mail with all my concerns about client-side-window-decorations (CSD), here is a very long mail presenting all my concerns what will not be possible any more with CSD and why I think that these particular features will be impossible."
More Than a Map - Ubilabs
In Hamburg, Germany we met with certified Google Maps API development partner Ubilabs. Ubilabs founders Michael Pletziger and Martin Kleppe showed us some of the Google Maps API driven projects they have built for Germany's largest brands such as Deutsche Telekom,…
The June issue of the Database Insider newsletter is now available. (Full newsletter here)
INFORMATION INDEPTH NEWSLETTERDatabase Insider Edition - June 2012
Oracle #1
in RDBMS Share Gartner
released its 2011 worldwide…