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  • SharePoint 2010 Video - Business Connectivity Services

    - by Sahil Malik
    Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). The latest DNRTV episode on SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services is now online. This is a video we (Carl and I) had recorded back in April 2010, and is a sneak peak to the SharePoint 2010 DVD that is finally on sale. Hope you like both. Comment on the article ....

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  • Is there a way to tell Drupal not to cache a specific page?

    - by TechplexEngineer
    I have a custom php page that processes a feed of images and makes albums out of it. However whenever i add pictures to my feed, the Drupal page doesn't change until I clear the caches. Is there a way to tell Drupal not to cache that specific page? Thanks, Blake Edit: Drupal v6.15 Not exactly sure what you mean oswald, team2648.com/media is hte page. I used the php interpreter module. Here is the php code: <?php //////// CODE by Pikori Web Designs - pikori.org /////////// //////// Please do not remove this title, /////////// //////// feel free to modify or copy this software /////////// $feedURL = 'http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/Techplex.Engineer?alt=rss&kind=album&hl=en_US'; $photoNodeNum = 4; $galleryTitle = 'Breakaway Pictures'; $year = '2011'; ?> <?php /////////////// DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ////////////////// $album = $_GET['album']; if($album != ""){ //GENERATE PICTURES $feedURL= "http://".$album."&kind=photo&hl=en_US"; $feedURL = str_replace("entry","feed",$feedURL); $sxml = simplexml_load_file($feedURL); $column = 0; $pix_count = count($sxml->channel->item); //print '<h2>'.$sxml->channel->title.'</h2>'; print '<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size:10pt" width="100%"><tr>'; for($i = 0; $i < $pix_count; $i++) { print '<td align="center">'; $entry = $sxml->channel->item[$i]; $picture_url = $entry->enclosure['url']; $time = $entry->pubDate; $time_ln = strlen($time)-14; $time = substr($time,0,$time_ln); $description = $entry->description; $tn_beg = strpos($description, "src="); $tn_end = strpos($description, "alt="); $tn_length = $tn_end - $tn_beg; $tn = substr($description, $tn_beg, $tn_length); $tn_small = str_replace("s288","s128",$tn); $picture_url = $tn; $picture_beg = strpos($picture_url,"http:"); $picture_len = strlen($picture_url)-7; $picture_url = substr($tn, $picture_beg, $picture_len); $picture_url = str_replace("s288","s640",$picture_url); print '<a rel="lightbox[group]" href="'.$picture_url.'">'; print '<img '.$tn_small.' style="border:1px solid #02293a"><br>'; print '</a></td> '; if($column == 4){ print '</tr><tr>'; $column = 0;} else $column++; } print '</table>'; print '<br><center><a href="media">Return to album</a></center>'; } else { //GENERATE ALBUMS $sxml = simplexml_load_file($feedURL); $column = 0; $album_count = count($sxml->channel->item); //print '<h2>'.$galleryTitle.'</h2>'; print '<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size:10pt" width="100%"><tr>'; for($i = 0; $i < $album_count; $i++) { $entry = $sxml->channel->item[$i]; $time = $entry->pubDate; $time_ln = strlen($time)-14; $time = substr($time,0,$time_ln); $description = $entry->description; $tn_beg = strpos($description, "src="); $tn_end = strpos($description, "alt="); $tn_length = $tn_end - $tn_beg; $tn = substr($description, $tn_beg, $tn_length); $albumrss = $entry->guid; $albumrsscount = strlen($albumrss) - 7; $albumrss = substr($albumrss, 7, $albumrsscount); $search = strstr($time, $year); if($search != FALSE || $year == ''){ print '<td valign="top">'; print '<a href="/node/'.$photoNodeNum.'?album='.$albumrss.'">'; print '<center><img '.$tn.' style="border:3px double #cccccc"><br>'; print $entry->title.'<br>'.$time.'</center>'; print '</a><br></td> '; if($column == 3){ print '</tr><tr>'; $column = 0; } else { $column++; } } } print '</table>'; } ?>

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  • .NET Data Providers - How do I determine what they can do?

    - by rbellamy
    I have code which could be executed using a Provider that doesn't support transactions, or doesn't support nested transactions. How would I programmatically determine such support? E.g. The code below throws a System.InvalidOperationException on the final commit when using the MySQL .NET Connector, but works fine for MSSQL. I'd like to be able to alter the code to accommodate various providers, without having to hardcode tests based on the type of provider (E.g. I don't want to have to do if(typeof(connection) == "some provider name")) using (IDbConnection connection = Use.Connection(ConnectionStringName)) using (IDbTransaction transaction = connection.BeginTransaction()) { using (currentCommand = connection.CreateCommand()) { using (IDbCommand cmd = connection.CreateCommand()) { currentCommand = cmd; currentCommand.Transaction = transaction; currentCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); } if (PipelineExecuter.HasErrors) { transaction.Rollback(); } else { transaction.Commit(); } } transaction.Commit(); }

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  • 24 Hours of PASS (September 2014): Summit Preview Edition

    - by Sergio Govoni
    Which sessions you can expect to find at the next PASS Summit 2014 ? Find it out on September 09, 2014 (12:00 GMT) at the free online event: 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview Edition.Register now at this link.No matter from what part of the world you will follow the event, the important thing is to know that they will be 24 hours of continuous training on SQL Server and Business Intelligence on your computer!

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  • Choosing a Wiki for a institute

    - by abhishekgupta92
    I need to choose a Wiki. Please someone help. Following are my requirements: 1) Need good control to the access variables 2) LDAP integration support 3) User Group Support 4) Good Themes and Templates Mediawiki has the problem that it does not support Users Groups that intutively. Twiki and Foswiki have a problem that any authenticated user that has write permissions for a topic also have the write to change the particualar permissions for the topic. Else, can someone suggest me where to look for the answer. I know about the WikiMatrix.

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  • New Exadata public references

    - by Javier Puerta
    The following customers are now public references for Exadata. Show your customers how other companies in their industries are leveraging Exadata to achieve their business objectives. BRITISH TELECOM - Communications - United Kingdom 2x Full Rack + 1x Quarter Rack Exadata Database Machine Oracle University Training Courses Success Story DEUTSCHE BANK - Financial Services - Germany 18x Full Rack Exadata Database Machine Warehouse for Credit Risk Reporting running on Exa Success Story OPENBAAR MINISTERIE - Public Sector - Netherlands 1x Full Rack Exadata Database Machine Datawarehouse usage Success Story ADRIATIC SLOVENICA - Insurance - Slovenia 1x Quarter Rack Exadata Database Machine running on Linux Replacing Oracle DB and Oracle Application Server Success Story More customer success stories at Oracle.com References

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  • Printing PowerPoint slides in black and white

    - by John Paul Cook
    When I do SQL Server training, sometimes students want to print all of the PowerPoint slides and use them for note taking during class. For such purposes, the background is usually better off being suppressed. This is most efficiently done by changing Print Settings as shown below: Personally I recommend that people take notes directly in the slides instead of printing them. PowerPoint has a notes area. If you do want to print slides and notes, once again use the Print Settings to specify this:...(read more)

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  • Printing PowerPoint slides in black and white

    - by John Paul Cook
    When I do SQL Server training, sometimes students want to print all of the PowerPoint slides and use them for note taking during class. For such purposes, the background is usually better off being suppressed. This is most efficiently done by changing Print Settings as shown below: Personally I recommend that people take notes directly in the slides instead of printing them. PowerPoint has a notes area. If you do want to print slides and notes, once again use the Print Settings to specify this:...(read more)

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  • What good software or scripts are available for managing users and subscriptions on our website?

    - by undefined
    hi all, Ok so it's not exactly a programing question but does anyone know or have experience with looking for a system for managing users on a website we are building? what is the shortlist of good feature rich secure solutions. we need Php and mysql integration and payment support for main credit cards. We will also want to be able to track users and generate reports about usage, subscription etc, create and send batch emails etc. It would also be great to have the ability to integrate customer support with this so we can view support tickets raised by users. cheers we are running PHP, mysql on an IIS server

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  • scala syntax highlighting in bluefish

    - by Synesso
    Scala comes packaged with bluefish syntax config in misc/scala-tool-support/bluefish/ I have attempted to configure this, as per the README, but there is no effect. cp ~/.bluefish/highlighting ~/.bluefish/highlighting_ cat ~/.bluefish/highlighting_ /opt/scala/scala-2.7.7.final/misc/scala-tool-support/bluefish/highlighting > ~/.bluefish/highlighting I have ensured highlighting is turned on in the bluefish config. I have not used bluefish before and am trying it for the first time because there is syntax highlighting support for it. The README says any file I open that has a .scala extension will have the scala highlighting applied. Instead I see no highlighting.

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  • DNNWorld Discounts!

    - by Chris Hammond
    If you are going to be attending DotNetNuke World this year ( http://dnnworld.dotnetnuke.com ) don’t forget that today is the last day to use the discount code 2011Attendee to get both the conference and training for $599. After today the price goes up! The conference runs October 10-12, 2012 in Orlando Florida. DotNetNuke World is the annual user conference specifically designed for developers, web designers, administrators, business decision makers, and end users on the DotNetNuke Platform.This...(read more)

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  • Register Now to the New Oracle Argus Safety 7 Implementation Boot Camp - Tokyo, Japan - Dec 10-13, 2013!

    - by Roxana Babiciu
    Oracle's Argus Safety 7 boot camp is an instructor-led training course which provides a good understanding of how Oracle Argus Safety Standard Edition and Oracle Argus Safety Japan products addresses complex pharmacovigilance requirements and helps ensure global regulatory compliance by enabling sound safety decisions. Oracle Argus Safety's advanced database helps ensure global regulatory compliance thus in turn enabling sound safety decisions. Read more here. 

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  • Wpf Listbox and CheckBox

    - by Tan
    Hi iam using a listbox to show a list of items. in the listbox i ahve an togglebutton on every item. When i click on the toggle button the state of the togglebutton is pressed. But when i am scrolling down in the listbox and scolls up again. The togglebutton state is not pressed. How can i prevent this please help. Heres my itemtemplate <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel Margin="0,3,0,0"> <Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1,1,1,1"> <Border.Background> <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0" MappingMode="RelativeToBoundingBox"> <GradientStop Color="#FFECECEC" Offset="1"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFE8E8E8"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFBDBDBD" Offset="0.153"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFE8E8E8" Offset="0.904"/> </LinearGradientBrush> </Border.Background> <Border.Style> <Style> <Style.Triggers> <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Path=IsSelected, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor,AncestorType={x:Type ListBoxItem}}}" Value="True"> <Setter Property="Border.Height" Value="100"/> <Setter Property="Border.Background"> <Setter.Value> <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0" MappingMode="RelativeToBoundingBox"> <GradientStop Color="DarkGray" Offset="1"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFE8E8E8"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFBDBDBD" Offset="0.153"/> <GradientStop Color="DarkGray" Offset="0.904"/> </LinearGradientBrush> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </DataTrigger> </Style.Triggers> </Style> </Border.Style> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Center"> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="500"/> <ColumnDefinition Width="100"/> <ColumnDefinition Width="55"/> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <!--Pick number--> <StackPanel Grid.Column="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" Orientation="Vertical"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=FtgNamn}" FontWeight="Bold" FontSize="22pt" FontFamily="Calibri"/> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=LevsAttBeskr}" FontSize="18pt" FontFamily="Calibri"/> </StackPanel> <!--Pick Quantity--> <StackPanel Grid.Column="1" VerticalAlignment="Center"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Antal}" FontSize="44pt" FontFamily="Calibri"/> </StackPanel> <!-- Checkbox--> <StackPanel Grid.Column="2" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center"> <ToggleButton Name="Check" Width="40" Height="40" Click="Check_Click" Tag="{Binding Path=Plocklista}"> <ToggleButton.Style> <Style TargetType="ToggleButton"> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}"> <Border x:Name="InnerBorder" Background="White" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1"/> <ControlTemplate.Triggers> <Trigger Property="IsChecked" Value="True"> <Setter TargetName="InnerBorder" Property="Background"> <Setter.Value> <ImageBrush ImageSource="/Images/button_ok.png"/> </Setter.Value> </Setter> <Setter TargetName="InnerBorder" Property="BorderThickness" Value="0"/> </Trigger> </ControlTemplate.Triggers> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> </ToggleButton.Style> </ToggleButton> </StackPanel> </Grid> <Border BorderBrush="Darkgray" BorderThickness="0,0,1,0"> </Border> <TextBlock Width="100" Text="{Binding Path=Quantity}" FontSize="44pt" FontFamily="Calibri"/> <CheckBox Width="78"/> </StackPanel> </Border> </StackPanel> </DataTemplate>

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  • Red Gate Software announces speaker line up for US SQL in the City tour

    SQL in the City is a free, full day training and networking event for database professionals. After the success of last year’s event, Red Gate has expanded the event to cover six cities from sea to shining sea, including: New York, Austin, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Seattle. Compress live data by 73% Red Gate's SQL Storage Compress reduces the size of live SQL Server databases, saving you disk space and storage costs. Learn more.

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  • Do you know of a bleeding-edge HTML5 leveraging, legacy-ignoring JavaScript framework?

    - by Ivan
    What's the best framework (sort of jquery, extjs, etc like) to use if I'd like to intensively use all the freshest technologies of the HTML5 stack provided by modern browsers (Firefox 3.6+ (Minefield especially), Safari 4+, Chrome 4+) and have absolutely no need to support any legacy browsers (incl. no need in IE support at all, no need in Firefox prior to 3.5, etc.)? I'd like to get all the newest available goodness without having (even abstracted by a library layer) a line of code meant just fore legacy compatibility and keeping no legacy-induced things in mind. To soften the filter, taking very humble hope of such an ideally fresh framework to exist, the least (the maximum level of legacy support) I'd like to agree is not supporting IE versions older than IE8, or better just not supporting IE at all.

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  • Was I wrong about JavaScript?

    - by jboyer
    Yes, I was. Recently, I’ve taken a good hard look at JavaScript. I’ve used it before but mostly in the capacity of web design. Using JQuery to make your web page do cool stuff is different than really creating a JavaScript application using all of the language constructs. What I’m finding as I use it more is that I may have been wrong about my assumptions about it. Let me explain.   I enjoyed doing cool stuff with JQuery but the limited experience with JavaScript as a language coupled with the bad things that I heard about it led me to not have any real interest in it. However, JavaScript is ubiquitous on the web and if I want to do any web development, which I do, I need to learn it. So here I am, diving deep into the language with the help of the JavaScript Fundamentals training course at Pluralsight (great training for a low price) and the JavaScript: The Good Parts book by Douglas Crockford.   Now, there are certainly parts of JavaScript that are bad. I think these are well known by any developer that uses it. The parts that I feel are especially egregious are the following: The global object null vs. undefined truthy and falsy limited (nearly nonexistent) scoping ‘==’ and ‘===’ (I just don’t get the reason for coercion)   However, what I am finding hiding under the covers of the bad things is a good language. I am finding that I am legitimately enjoying JavaScript. This I was not expecting. I’m not going to go into a huge dissertation on what I like about it, but some things include: Object literal notation dynamic typing functional style (JavaScript: The Good Parts describes it as LISP in C clothing) JSON (better than XML) There are parts of JavaScript that seem strange to OOP developers like myself. However, just because it is different or seems strange does not mean it is bad. Some differences are quite interesting and useful.   I feel that it is important for developers to challenge their assumptions and also to be able to admit when they are wrong on a topic. Many different situations can arise that lead to this, such as choosing the wrong technology for a problem’s solution, misunderstanding the requirements, etc. I decided to challenge my assumptions about JavaScript instead of moving straight into CoffeeScript or Dart. After exploring it, I find that I am beginning to enjoy it the more I use it. As long as there are those like Crockford to help guide me in the right way to code in JavaScript, I can create elegant and efficient solutions to problems and add another ‘arrow’ to the ‘quiver’, so to speak. I do still intend to learn CoffeeScript to see what the hub-bub is about, but now I no longer have to be afraid of JavaScript as a legitimate programming language.   Has something similar ever happened to you? Tell me about it in the comments below.

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  • Oracle User Productivity Kit Best Practices for Upgrade Projects

    Minimize risk and increase success of your upgrade with Oracle User Productivity Kit. By providing value throughout the upgrade cycle, Oracle UPK can maximize your return on investment and quckly get your users up to speed on the new application. Learn how to use Oracle UPK for all phases of your upgrade project, including process review and design; application setup and configuration; testing, training and change management; and maintenance and support.

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  • What is lisp used for today and where do you think it's going ?

    - by ldigas
    Never been a lisp user, so don't take me as too dense while reading this. But what is lisp used for today ? I know there are several variants of the language in existence, at least one which will keep it alive commercially for a while longer (AutoLisp, VisualLisp - pretty big support from Autodesk) ... but I don't meet everyday people using it. So if you can shed some light on the matter - what is it's primary target market nowadays ? And what do you believe its future will be ... will it become just another support language in few apps, or is it going somewhere ? Also, apart from "an editor whose name shall not be spoken" what other apps keep it as a support language ?

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  • What does this Express Edition look like, anyhow?

    - by TiborKaraszi
    Chances are that you rarely get to see the Express Edition of SQL Server if you mainly work with servers. This blog post is inspired from a forum discussion where some functionality is missing in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and I suspected that the tools were installed as a Basic installation instead of Complete installation. So how do I check that? Difficult if I don’t have such an install to look at. I’m training this week and have a few spare machines to play with so I went ahead and installed...(read more)

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  • Speaker Notes...

    - by wulfers
    At a .Net User Group meeting this week, I experienced two poorly prepared speakers floundering through presentations….  As a Lead Technologist at the company I work for, I have experience training technical staff and also giving presentations at code camps.  Here are a few guidelines for aspiring speakers you might find helpful…   1.       Do not stand in front of your audience and read your slides.  This is  offensive to your audience and not what they came for...  Your slides are there to reinforce the information you are presenting and to give the audience a little clarification on some terms you may use and as a visual aid for some complicated issues. 2.       Have someone review your presentation (slides, notes, …) who speaks the language you will be presenting in fluently.  Also record at least ten minutes of your presentation and have that same person review that.  One of the speakers this week used the word “Basically” fifty times in less than thirty minutes…  I started to flinch every time he used the term. 3.       Be Prepared  -  before the presentation begins.  Don’t make any last minute changes to your presentation or demo code the night before.  Don’t patch your laptop or demo servers the night before.  If possible create a virtual image that you only use for presentations and use that (refreshed before every presentation). 4.       Know the level of expertise of your audience.  Speaking above or below their abilities will make or break your presentation. 5.       Deliver what you promise. The presentation this week was supposed to be on BDD (Behavior Driven Develpment).  The presenter completely ran off track and 90% of the discussion was how his team mistakenly used TDD (Test Driven Development), and was unhappy with the results.  Based on his loss of focus we only heard a rushed 10 minute presentation on DBB which was a disservice to the audience. 6.       Practice your presentation with your own small team before you try this on a room full of people you don’t know.  A side benefit of doing this with your own team is that you can get candid feedback from your team and also get kudos for training your own team.  I find I can also turn my presentations into technical white papers and get a third benefit from the work I’ve put into a presentation. 7.       Sharpen your own saw.  Pick a topic that is fairly current.  Something you would like to learn about and would benefit your current career path. 8.       Have fun doing it.

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  • Speaking at NDC in Oslo next week

    - by Sahil Malik
    SharePoint 2010 Training: more information Greetings! I will be speaking at the biggest baddest Scandinavian conference next week with 8 tracks, an amazing speaker line up, and an Agenda packed full of fun. I am talking about NDC, the Norwegian Developers Conference. My talks are as follows, Read full article ....

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  • Supercharge your CRM solution with Oracle Policy Automation

    Tune into this conversation with Davin Fifield, VP, Product Development for Oracle Policy Automation to learn how to rapidly deliver customer self-service for product selection, significantly lower training costs for rolling out new call center processes, and in general dramatically improve business agility, consistency and transparency of decision making within and beyond your CRM solution of choice.

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  • Oracle Virtualization Friday Spotlight - November 8, 2013

    - by Monica Kumar
    Hands-on Private Cloud Simulator In One Hour Submitted by: Doan Nguyen, Senior Principal Product Marketing Director My aeronautics instructor used to say, "you can’t appreciate flying until you take flight." To clarify, this is not about gearing up in a flying squirrel suit and hopping off a cliff (topic for another blog!) but rather about flying an airplane. The idea is to get hands-on with the controls at the cockpit and experience flight before you actually fly a real plane. After the initial 40 hours of flight time, the concept sank in and it really made sense.This concept is what inspired our technical experts to put together the hands-on lab for a private cloud deployment and management self-service model. Yes, we are comparing the lab to a flight simulator! Let’s look at the parallels: To get trained to fly, starting in the simulator gets you off the ground quicker. There is no need to have a real plane to begin with. In a hands-on lab, there is no need for a real server, with networking and real storage installed. All you need is your laptop The simulator is pre-configured, pre-flight check done. Similarly, in a hands-on lab, Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Manager are pre-configured and assembled using Oracle VM VirtualBox as the container. Software installations are not needed. After time spent training at the controls, you can really appreciate the practical experience of flying. Along the same lines, the hands-on lab is a guided learning path, without the encumbrances of hardware, software installation, so you can learn about cloud deployment and management.  However, unlike the simulator training, your time investment with the lab is only about an hour and not 40 hours! This hands-on lab takes you through private cloud deployment and management using Oracle VM and  Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c in an Infrastructure as a service IaaS model. You will first configure the IaaS cloud as the cloud administrator and then deploy guest virtual machines (VMs) as a self-service user. Then you are ready to take flight into the cloud! Why not step into the cockpit now!

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  • Enable Seamless Transformation and Effective Adoption of Change with Oracle User Productivity Kit

    Organizations go through continuous transformation and change - whether it is through mergers and acquisitions, standardizations of systems, a rollout of a new application or business process improvements. With Oracle User Productivity Kit, project teams can capture and deploy best practices to streamline efficiency, reduce cost, and ensure successful change adoption. Discover how organizations can leverage the multiple outputs of Oracle UPK for all phases of the project from blueprinting/design/configuration to testing/training/go-live as well as maintenance and support.

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  • Adventures in Windows 8: Working around the navigation animation issues in LayoutAwarePage

    - by Laurent Bugnion
    LayoutAwarePage is a pretty cool add-on to Windows 8 apps, which facilitates greatly the implementation of orientation-aware (portrait, landscape) as well as state-aware (snapped, filled, fullscreen) apps. It has however a few issues that are obvious when you use transformed elements on your page. Adding a LayoutAwarePage to your application If you start with a blank app, the MainPage is a vanilla Page, with no such feature. In order to have a LayoutAwarePage into your app, you need to add this class (and a few helpers) with the following operation: Right click on the Solution and select Add, New Item from the context menu. From the dialog, select a Basic Page (not a Blank Page, which is another vanilla page). If you prefer, you can also use Split Page, Items Page, Item Detail Page, Grouped Items Page or Group Detail Page which are all LayoutAwarePages. Personally I like to start with a Basic Page, which gives me more creative freedom. Adding this new page will cause Visual Studio to show a prompt asking you for permission to add additional helper files to the Common folder. One of these helpers in the LayoutAwarePage class, which is where the magic happens. LayoutAwarePage offers some help for the detection of orientation and state (which makes it a pleasure to design for all these scenarios in Blend, by the way) as well as storage for the navigation state (more about that in a future article). Issue with LayoutAwarePage When you use UI elements such as a background picture, a watermark label, logos, etc, it is quite common to do a few things with those: Making them partially transparent (this is especially true for background pictures; for instance I really like a black Page background with a half transparent picture placed on top of it). Transforming them, for instance rotating them a bit, scaling them, etc. Here is an example with a picture of my two beautiful daughters in the Bird Park in Kuala Lumpur, as well as a transformed TextBlock. The image has an opacity of 40% and the TextBlock a simple RotateTransform. If I create an application with a MainPage that navigates to this LayoutAwarePage, however, I will have a very annoying effect: The background picture appears with an Opacity of 100%. The TextBlock is not rotated. This lasts only for less than a second (during the navigation animation) before the elements “snap into place” and get their desired effect. Here is the XAML that cause the annoying effect: <common:LayoutAwarePage x:Name="pageRoot" x:Class="App13.BasicPage1" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:common="using:App13.Common" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc:Ignorable="d"> <Grid Style="{StaticResource LayoutRootStyle}"> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="140" /> <RowDefinition Height="*" /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Image Source="Assets/el20120812025.jpg" Stretch="UniformToFill" Opacity="0.4" Grid.RowSpan="2" /> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Button x:Name="backButton" Click="GoBack" IsEnabled="{Binding Frame.CanGoBack, ElementName=pageRoot}" Style="{StaticResource BackButtonStyle}" /> <TextBlock x:Name="pageTitle" Grid.Column="1" Text="Welcome" Style="{StaticResource PageHeaderTextStyle}" /> </Grid> <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Welcome to my Windows 8 Application" Grid.Row="1" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" FontFamily="Segoe UI Light" FontSize="70" FontWeight="Light" TextAlignment="Center" Foreground="#FFFFA200" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" UseLayoutRounding="False" d:LayoutRounding="Auto" Margin="0,0,0,153"> <TextBlock.RenderTransform> <CompositeTransform Rotation="-6.545" /> </TextBlock.RenderTransform> </TextBlock> <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> [...] </VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> </Grid> </common:LayoutAwarePage> Solving the issue In order to solve this “snapping” issue, the solution is to wrap the elements that are transformed into an empty Grid. Honestly, to me it sounds like a bug in the LayoutAwarePage navigation animation, but thankfully the workaround is not that difficult: Simple change the main Grid as follows: <Grid Style="{StaticResource LayoutRootStyle}"> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="140" /> <RowDefinition Height="*" /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Grid Grid.RowSpan="2"> <Image Source="Assets/el20120812025.jpg" Stretch="UniformToFill" Opacity="0.4" /> </Grid> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Button x:Name="backButton" Click="GoBack" IsEnabled="{Binding Frame.CanGoBack, ElementName=pageRoot}" Style="{StaticResource BackButtonStyle}" /> <TextBlock x:Name="pageTitle" Grid.Column="1" Text="Welcome" Style="{StaticResource PageHeaderTextStyle}" /> </Grid> <Grid Grid.Row="1"> <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Welcome to my Windows 8 Application" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" FontFamily="Segoe UI Light" FontSize="70" FontWeight="Light" TextAlignment="Center" Foreground="#FFFFA200" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" UseLayoutRounding="False" d:LayoutRounding="Auto" Margin="0,0,0,153"> <TextBlock.RenderTransform> <CompositeTransform Rotation="-6.545" /> </TextBlock.RenderTransform> </TextBlock> </Grid> <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> [...] </Grid> Hopefully this will help a few people, I banged my head on the wall for a while before someone at Microsoft pointed me to the solution ;) Happy coding, Laurent   Laurent Bugnion (GalaSoft) Subscribe | Twitter | Facebook | Flickr | LinkedIn

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