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Oracle 5th Annual Maintenance Summit - Orlando March 22-23, 2011

- by stephen.slade(at)oracle.com

It's not too late to register today or tomorrow for this exclusive 'Maintenance Professionals Only" event. In 4 tracks, 27 customer and partner speakers will present case studies and success stories in these 'no-sell zone' sessions. The take-aways will be worth attending!This "2 in 1" event combines a Customer Showcase featuring Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) and Maintenance Summit. OUC - the local municipal utility providing residential, commercial, and industrial customers with clean, reliable, and affordable electric and water services - will open the event with their CIO as keynote speaker, and host tours of their fleet, facility, and power generation operations. Recognized as a green leader, OUC has been the most reliable power provider in Florida the past 9 years due, in large part, to the operational efficiencies of its plant and asset maintenance systems. This Summit will feature breakout session tracks for EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Sustainability. Highlights include over 12 Oracle solution demo stations, over 25 interactive breakout sessions, pool-side networking reception with live band, partner exhibit pavilion and special appearance by Sean D. Tucker, Team Oracle Stunt-Pilot! Dates: March 22-23, 2011 Location: Orlando World Center Marriott, Orlando, Florida Evite: http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/h2fy11/65971-nafm10019768mpp191c003-oem-304204.html Highlights: Keynotes, Oracle Expert Demo Stations, Interactive Breakout Sessions, Networking Reception, Partner Pavilion, Speakers Tracks: EBS, JDE, PSFT, Sustainability Tours: Orlando Utility Operations, Fleet and Facility Oracle Demo Stations: Agile, AutoVue, Primavera, MOC/SSDM, Utilities, PIM, PDQ, UCM, On Demand, Business Accelerators, Facilities Work Management, EBS Enterprise Asset Management, PeopleSoft Maintenance Management, Technology, Hardware/Sun. Partner-Sponsors: Viziya, Global PTM, MiPro, Asset Management Solutions, Venutureforth, Impac Services, EAM Master, LLC, Meridium

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Oracle Lean Supply Chain Newsletter

- by [email protected]

Ready to ride the cutting edge? Leader or Laggard? There's plenty of new material and exciting articles on Oracle Supply Chain products in the quarterly newsletter, the February '10 issue contained some interesting articles on: - Supply Chains in the new 'Abnornal" - Manufacturers go Paperless to Boost Lean - Five Good Reasons to go to Release 12.1 - Software and Hardware complete with the Sun acquisition See details at: http://www.oracle.com/newsletters/samples/supply-chain-management.html Stay tuned for the May'10 issue and some great articles worth reviewing

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Toyota's Supply Chain "ran too hot"

- by [email protected]

The Feb 28th '10 edition of the Economist had a very informative artical (pg.74) on Toyota's over-stretched supply chain pointing out that they were ' the author of most of its own misfortunes". James Womack is quoted in the piece on Toyota's rapid expansion 'meant working with a lot of unfamiliar suppliers who didn't have a deep understandin of Toyota's culture. The majority of the problems almost certainly originated not in the Toyota factories but in those of the supppliers'. One purchasing executive said that it started in mid-2008, when the weaker parts of the supply chain were put under great strain. There is a need for visibility but not always there. Firms need transparancy and speed of communications to make sure defective parts and errors dont reach the customer. It concludes with guidance to manufacturers: "It may be safer not to have all your eggs in one basket, but to have maybe 3 suppliers for major components who can benchmark each other' - Toyota was the peerless exemplar, now seen as an awful warning

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OpenGL 2D Depth Perception

- by Stephen James

This is the first time i have ever commented on a forum about programming, so sorry if I'm not specific enough. Here's my problem: I have a 2D RPG game written in Java using LWJGL. All works fine, but at the moment I'm having trouble deciding what the best way to do depth perception is. So , for example, if the player goes in front of the tree/enemy (lower than the objects y-coordinate) then show the player in front), if the player goes behind the tree/enemy (higher than the objects specific y-coordinate), then show the player behind the object. I have tried writing a block of code to deal with this, and it works quite well for the trees, but not for the enemies yet. Is there a simpler way of doing this in LWJGL that I'm missing? Thanks :)

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OpenGL 2D Depth Perception

- by Stephen James

I have a 2D RPG game written in Java using LWJGL. All works fine, but at the moment I'm having trouble deciding what the best way to do depth perception is. So , for example, if the player goes in front of the tree/enemy (lower than the objects y-coordinate) then show the player in front), if the player goes behind the tree/enemy (higher than the objects specific y-coordinate), then show the player behind the object. I have tried writing a block of code to deal with this, and it works quite well for the trees, but not for the enemies yet. Is there a simpler way of doing this in LWJGL that I'm missing?

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Manufacturing Leadership 2011 Awards Event, Oracle Winners!

- by stephen.slade(at)oracle.com

Ready to Revolutionize Manufacturing?During the annual Manufacturing Leadership 2011 awards event, over 20 Oracle customers will be receiving leadership awards in various categories for mastery in applications, technology and/or innovation. Held at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach May 6-9, Oracle will sponsor exhibits and speaking engagements as well as hosting customers and prospects at the event.If you are in manufacturing and want to achieve the upper quartile of performance, up with the best-in-class performers, this is the event you should consider attending. Four time Superbowl champion quarterback Terry Bradshaw will be the Keynote speaker.Event Link: http://blog.managingautomation.com/summit/

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Creating a Successful Cloud Roadmap

- by stephen.g.bennett

No matter what type of cloud services or deployment models you are considering as part of your overall IT strategy, you must have a cloud services adoption roadmap to guide your journey. A cloud services adoption roadmap provides guidance that enables multiple projects to progress in parallel yet remain coordinated and ultimately result in a common end goal. The cloud services adoption roadmap consists of program-level efforts and a portfolio of cloud services. The program-level effort creates strategic assets such as the cloud architecture, cloud infrastructure, cloud governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes, and security policies that are leveraged across all the individual projects. A feature article on this topic can be found in the latest SOA and Cloud Magazine.

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Only One Month to OpenWorld-San Francisco!

- by Stephen Slade

From around the world, the city is expecting 50,000+ guests to flock to this annual extravaganza. Over 2,000 sessions will focus on Oracle’s latest product offerings, customer case studies, panels of experts and a variety of other hardware, technology, middleware and applications. For those interested in the latest capabilities delivered by Oracle’s supply chain applications, the ‘Focus-On’ documents are now avaiable to help guide you in your schedule builder. Schedule builder allows the capability to create a personalized agenda for the sessions you wish to attend, such as: Monday October 1, 2012 TIME TITLE LOCATION 3:15 pm –4:15 pm General Session: Supply Chain Management—Strategy, Update, and Roadmap Richard Jewell, Senior Vice President, Applications Development, Oracle Moscone West Level 2 Room 3014 Tuesday October 2, 2012 TIME TITLE LOCATION 10:15 am –11:15 am Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Management: Overview, Strategy, Customer Experiences, and Roadmap Jon Chorley, CSO & VP, Product Strategy, Oracle Moscone West Level 2 Room 2006 There is an exciting lineup of about 100 supply chain sessions at OpenWorld. Contact your sales rep or Oracle Partner to obtain a copy of the most current Focus-On document, segmented by pillars such as Manufacturing, Maintenance/EAM, Value Chain Planning, Value Chain Execution, Procurement and Agile/Product Lifecycle Management. They will provide you with a better informed view to schedule your time in San Francisco.

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Oracle eAM Webcast Series Announced (May-Dec 2010)

- by [email protected]

A series of free webinars with ReliabilityWeb will present key product capabilitiesof Oracle eAM and how they support maintenance and reliability best practices. Through this web-seminar series,companies can understand how to achieve better ROI. ReliabilityWeb will be using this as a key component of their initiative tobuild a stronger Oracle community. For Oracle this program demonstrates leadership and commitment to the Maintenance SystemsMarketplace. Topics: (note all times are EAST)1. How can Oracle eAM enhance and support your reliability program? (May 13,2010) (1-2PM - all times East)) 2. Upgrading to Oracle eAM R12 - What's the value, when's the right time,what's involved and how do you get there? (June 17, 2010) (1-2PM) 3. Improving maintenance and reliability by aligning people, processes andsystems. (July 15, 2010) (1-2PM) 4. Using Oracle eAM to drive your Condition Based Maintenance program. (July29, 2010) (1-2PM) 5. Why and how do you get the power of Oracle eAM out to the people that arereally doing maintenance the technicians. (August 12, 2010) (1-2PM) 6. Standardizing and streamlining your maintenance work with Oracle eAM.(September 16, 2010 (1-2PM) 7. Standardizing maintenance and reliability data - How do you get there?(October 21, 2010 (1-2PM) 8. Using Oracle eAM to establish a Failure Reporting and Corrective ActionSystems (FRACAS). (November 18, 2010) (1-2PM)9. Maintenance Work Scheduling in Oracle eAM - Capabilities and Limitations(December 16, 2010) (1-2PM)to Register: <http://img.gotomeeting.com/g2mimages/1x1.gif> <http://www1.gotomeeting.com/g2w/images/298420256/73664767535782300/embed.jpg>For additional information contact Jay West, EAM Master,+1.205.515.4326

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How can I better implement A star algorithm with a very large set of nodes?

- by Stephen

I'm making a game with nodejs in which many enemies must converge on the player as the player moves around a relatively open space (right now it is an open field with few obstacles, but eventually there may be some small buildings in the field with 1 or 2 rooms). It's a multiplayer game using websockets, so the server needs to keep track of enemies and players. I found this javascript A* library which I've modified to be used on the server as a nodejs module. The library utilizes a Binary Heap to track the nodes for the algorithm, so it should be pretty fast (and indeed, with a small grid, say 100x100 it is lightning fast). The problem is that my game is not really tile-based. As the player moves around the map, he is moving on a more or less 1-to-1 per-pixel coordinate system (the player can move in 8 directions, 1 or 2 pixels at a time). In preliminary tests, on an 800x600 field, the path-finding can take anywhere from 400 to 1000 ms. Multiply that by 10 enemies and the game starts to get pretty choppy. I have already set it up so that each enemy will only do a path-finding call once per second or even as slow as once every 2 seconds (they have to keep updating their path because the players can move freely). But even with this long interval, there are noticeable lag spikes or chops every couple of seconds as the enemies update their paths. I'm willing to approach the problem of path-finding differently, if there's another option. I'm assuming that the real problem is the enormous grid (800x600). It also occurs to me that maybe the large arrays are to blame, as I've read that V8 has trouble with large arrays.

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Join us! Oracle Manufacturing Industries Forum, Chicago Thurs. Nov.14'13

- by Stephen Slade

The 6th Annual Oracle Manufacturing Industries Forum will take place in Chicago, Thurs, Nov.14 '13. Executives from successful global manufacturing companies will address key themes including: Value Chain Transformation, Owning the Customer Service Experience, Sales and Operations Planning in a Global Enterprise Supply Chain, and Modernizing the Manufacturing Enterprise. Join us for what we expect to be one of the industry's most informative and provocative executive events of the year. Event Objectives: Create an environment where executives can interact with their peers to discuss current issues Brainstorm and discuss how attendees can use technology to transform their organizations Share best practices and learn through the experiences of industry peers Where: Westin Chicago River North, 320 North Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60654 Evite: http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/229048-nafm13049989mpp074-se-2021171.html Register: http://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKWebId=0x25005591a&source=evite Partner Sponsors Include: CSS, Fujitsu, Inspirage, Hitachi Consulting, Lucidity and Rolta Register Now!

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Oracle Number One in Supply Chain Planning

- by Stephen Slade

Something nice to write home about! Saw this accomplishment and worth promoting, with special Congrats to the VCP team. Read on: Summary: Oracle is the #1 player in Supply Chain Planning according to research firm ARC Advisory Group Details: The report (Source: ARC Advisory Group, “Supply Chain Planning Worldwide Outlook, Market Analysis and Forecast through 2016,” Clint Reiser, Steve Banker), gives Oracle 21.1% of revenue share, compared to SAP, who was second at 18.6%. JDA Software, Aspen, Logility, and Infor were the next players in the market. The total market was valued at $1.506B. ARC counts Software (new license and upgrades), Implementation Services, Maintenance and Support, and SaaS, in its definition. ARC defines supply chain planning to include four key application areas: Extended SCP, Manufacturing Planning, Inventory/Distribution Planning, and Demand Management. Extended SCP consists of Network Design, Capable to Promise, SCP Composites, and Extended Supply Chain BI software. In the report, ARC further gives Oracle the number one spot in both Software Revenues and Services Revenues subsegments, as well as in many vertical areas such as Government, Electronics and Electrical, Medical Products, Pharmaceutical, and Wholesale/Distribution. ARC also issued a forecast, that predicts SCP revenue to grow from $1.506B in 2011 to $2.172B in 2016, with a CAGR of 7.6%. The report has several positive quotes about Oracle, including calling Oracle a “visionary,” and states that “Oracle has leveraged a broad set of home-grown and acquired offerings to create a comprehensive, integrated, yet modular suite with applicability to a wide range of industries,” Blog Link: http://blog.us.oracle.com/marketdata/?97119896 (shawn willett@oracle com)

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Sharing my home folders with other users on the same PC

- by Stephen Myall

After reviewing similar questions on the same subject Im still none the wiser. I want to share my music, pictures and video folders with other users on my pc. I am using 11.10 and will be upgrading to 12.04. The method I have tried is to right click on the folder (as Administrator), select "Sharing Options" check all the necessary fields and give the share a name like "music-shared". Another dialog pops up then and I select "Set nautilus Permissions". When the other user logs on they go to their Home folder click on the network and can see the "music-shared" folder, but they get a message that the do not have the necessary permissions to view the content. Im sure I'm missing something simple. My Home folder is encrypted and i am willing to unencrypt to make this work Unlike other questions on this site, I dont have a partition etc. i would be grateful for any help.

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Force SSL and WWW in .htaccess

- by Stephen

I'm looking for a way to force SSL and WWW. I've been able to force both separately but together I keep running into redirection issues. The following code works when handling a url in this format: "http://domain.com" and properly redirects to "https://www.domain.com" but when the incoming url is "https://domain.com" it will not forward to "https://www.domain.com" -- Any suggestions? EDIT: it should also send "http://www.domain.com" to ""https://www.domain.com" RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !127\.0\.0\.0 RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]

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Running an a single action on multiple sprites at the same time

- by Stephen

Ok so I have created a spiraling animation for a football and I want to be able to run it on 2 sprites at the same time. This is what I have done. CCAnimation* footballAnim = [CCAnimation animationWithFrame:@"Football" frameCount:60 delay:0.005f]; spiral = [CCAnimate actionWithAnimation:footballAnim]; CCRepeatForever* repeat = [CCRepeatForever actionWithAction:spiral]; [Sprite1 runAction: repeat]; [Sprite2 runAction: repeat]; but it only runs the action on the first sprite. What am I doing wrong?

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Hear about Oracle Supply Chain at Pella, Apr 27-29 '10

- by [email protected]

Oracle Customer Showcase - Apr 27-29'10 Featuring Pella Corp. Delivering Greater Customer Value "Discovering the Lean Value Chain" Pella is once again hosting Oracle customers at a mega-reference event in Pella, Iowa, on April 27-29. The agenda features a cross-stack set of topics and issues, including strategies for delivering customer value, improving the customer experience, Value Chain Planning / Manufacturing / Enterprise Performance Management, and Lean practices. Several executives will keynote, including Pella CIO Steve Printz. The event includes a demo grounds, round-table discussion groups, plant tours, and networking opportunities. !

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How can I move a polygon edge 1 unit away from the center?

- by Stephen

Let's say I have a polygon class that is represented by a list of vector classes as vertices, like so: var Vector = function(x, y) { this.x = x; this.y = y; }, Polygon = function(vectors) { this.vertices = vectors; }; Now I make a polygon (in this case, a square) like so: var poly = new Polygon([ new Vector(2, 2), new Vector(5, 2), new Vector(5, 5), new Vector(2, 5) ]); So, the top edge would be [poly.vertices[0], poly.vertices[1]]. I need to stretch this polygon by moving each edge away from the center of the polygon by one unit, along that edge's normal. The following example shows the first edge, the top, moved one unit up: The final polygon should look like this new one: var finalPoly = new Polygon([ new Vector(1, 1), new Vector(6, 1), new Vector(6, 6), new Vector(1, 6) ]); It is important that I iterate, moving one edge at a time, because I will be doing some collision tests after moving each edge. Here is what I tried so far (simplified for clarity), which fails triumphantly: for(var i = 0; i < vertices.length; i++) { var a = vertices[i], b = vertices[i + 1] || vertices[0]; // in case of final vertex var ax = a.x, ay = a.y, bx = b.x, by = b.y; // get some new perpendicular vectors var a2 = new Vector(-ay, ax), b2 = new Vector(-by, bx); // make into unit vectors a2.convertToUnitVector(); b2.convertToUnitVector(); // add the new vectors to the original ones a.add(a2); b.add(b2); // the rest of the code, collision tests, etc. } This makes my polygon start slowly rotating and sliding to the left, instead of what I need. Finally, the example shows a square, but the polygons in question could be anything. They will always be convex, and always with vertices in clockwise order.

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What is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Drivers?

- by Stephen Myall

I am planning on doing a fresh install of 12.04 LTS and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Drivers in 12.04 LTS? In a previous AU question relating to 11.10 (here) NOT 12.04 the accepted response stated that ia32-libs was a dependency (even for 64bit machines). I studied other Q&A on AU and the reason for asking this specific question is that I wasn't sure about some of the dependencies needed. I was also receiving conflicting advice on other reputable websites which put doubts in my mind on what the correct approach was.

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F# open source project hosting using SVN

- by Stephen Swensen

Hi all, I'm looking to choose open source project hosting site for an F# project using SVN. CodePlex is where the .NET community in general and most F# projects are hosted, but I'm worried TFS + SvnBridge is going to give me headaches. So I'm looking elsewhere and seeking advice here. Or if you think CodePlex is still the best choice in my scenario, I'd like to hear that too. So far, Google Code is looking appealing to me. They have a clean interface and true SVN hosting. But there are close to no F# projects currently hosted (it's not even in their search by programming language list), so I'm wondering if there are any notable downsides besides the lack of community I might encounter. If there is yet another option, I'd like to hear that too. Thanks!

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Need help deciding if Joomla! experience as a good metric for hiring a particular prospective employee.

- by Stephen

My company has been looking to hire a PHP developer. Some of the requirements for the job include: an understanding of design patterns, particularly MVC. some knowledge of PHP 5.3's new features. experience working with a PHP framework (it doesn't matter which one). I interviewed a man today who's primary work experience involved working with Joomla!. As an employee, he will be required to work on existing and new web applications that use Zend Framework, CakePHP and/or CodeIgniter. It is my opinion that we shouldn't dismiss hiring a developer just because he has not used the same technologies that he'll be using on the job. So, I'd like to know about the kind of coding experience working with Joomla! can provide. I've never bothered to take more than a brief look (if that) at the Joomla! package, so I'm hoping to lean on the knowledge of my peers. Would you consider Joomla! to contain a professional code-base? Is the package well organized, and/or OO in general, or is it more like WordPress where logic and presentation are commingled? When working with Joomla!, is the developer encouraged to use best practices? In your opinion, would experience working with Joomla! garner the skills needed to get up to speed with Zend or CakePHP quickly, or will there be a steep learning curve ahead of the developer? I'm not saying that Joomla! is a bad technology, or even that it is lower on the totem pole when compared to the frameworks I've mentioned. Maybe it's awesome, I dunno. I simply have no idea!

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Can Near Field Communications (NFC) Benefit your Supply Chain?

- by Stephen Slade

Leading firms continue to leverage the latest tools and technologies to drive performance especially around minimizing transaction costs. With razor thin margins in manufacturing and distribution, the leading producers are resorting to Near Field Communications to gain efficiencies. In this week’s CIO magazine (Apr1, 2012, pg.30, see http://www.cio.com) Lauren Brousell talks of the things you need to know to make a more informed decision with NFC. Sandy Shen of Gartner says NFC appeals because "it supports any services that requires data transfer and authentication' 1. NFC is Cheap and Easy - short range transmitting technology connecting smartphones to data transfer. 2. Adoption Seems Inevitable - more merchants will use NCF for payments in the futures. Wallets are becoming obsolete. 3. It's a Hot Potato for Enterprise - Business with credit card companies and cell phone providers are debating who handles the billing process. 4. It's in use Overseas. Japan uses FeliCa to pay by smartphone. In the US, billing agreements are causing territorial conflict. 5. Security Risks Come Standard. As people lose HH devices, security will be an ongoing concern. Credentials and timeout features and alleviate to some extent. My prediction: In 5 years, we won't have wallets in our pockets. Our secure and all-powerful smart phones will be our electronic portable banks and execute the transaction for us based on our preferences and propensities and electronically execute the transaction for the supply chain.

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We Found 100 Manufacturing Heros That Focus on Innovation!

- by Stephen Slade

There’s a good piece written by Ann Grackin of ChainLink Research on the Manufacturing Leadership 100 Awards program held recently in Palm Beach Fl, Apr 30-May 3, 2012. This article (link below) highlights the summary of the Summit with specific focus on manufacturing innovation. There were several informative keynotes and sessions from industrial leaders who are leveraging the latest tools and technologies to make better decisions. Ann writes that she was a panelist with Cindy Reese, SVP, Worldwide Operations, Oracle; and Steven Tungate, VP/GM, Supply Chain & Innovation, Toshiba America Business Solutions about Factories and Supply Networks of the Future. Ann writes “So what are these manufacturers doing? Significant rationalization of the supply base (Toshiba, especially, has this issue since they have a long history of many acquisitions), streamlining production to increase productivity, and looking for lower-cost countries for manufacturing…. No doubt firms have global customer bases, so they need to be present in these markets. However, a low-cost-country manufacturing source does introduce more risk in the supply chain. And that was discussed. Quality, security, and intellectual property protection were the critical global manufacturing issues also discussed. “Cindy (Reese) told a fascinating story about Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and the supply chain that was subsequently created. Here was one of the key points: Although Oracle sells on a global basis, they now do their own factory-installed software. This keeps potential ‘factory-installed malware’ from getting into the servers at contract manufacturers, and prevents pirated software. In this way, Oracle ensures that they deliver the quality and security people expect”. Learn more about the Manufacturing Leadership 100 program from Manufacturing Executive at: http://www.mlsummit.com/ Full Article Link: http://www.clresearch.com/research/detail.cfm?guid=52327213-3048-79ED-99D4-E433DA64D4F0

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Meta description not displaying in custom site search results page

- by Stephen Connolly

We have Google Custom Site Search implemented on our company website. When I'm looking at the results page, I noticed that the Meta Description is not being displayed. It just seems to be reading the links titles from our drop down menu and using this as a description. When I search for the same page via google.com, the meta description is pulled in correctly. Any thoughts why this might be happening. I can't see anything in the Custom Site Search settings.

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Where should SQL/DB Queries be encapsulated in a software system?

- by Stephen Bennet

I frequently write small applications (either web based or otherwise) that require heavy database usage. i've attempted various ways of handling where to put the actual sql queries (sort of ad-hoc ORM systems). These include: Models that build themselves up - and only allowing SQL to be inside of a model. A sort of factory style method where the models are built by a factory class that is allowed to know about SQL. A third entity that maps models based on their fields/keys into the database and generates SQL code on the fly based on this. Is there a common knowledge of which method is best? Or another way I have missed? Clearly a lot of it will be based on the context of the system itself, which for me is usually to produce lightweight tools or utility frameworks. In experimenting, I've never found any of them that feel intuitively "right" and not clunky, but I also do not want to go for a full framework such as Django or Ruby - both because the tools I create are in a variety of languages and because they usually do not warrant that level of surrounding footprint.

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I don't know C. And why should I learn it?

- by Stephen

My first programming language was PHP (gasp). After that I started working with JavaScript. I've recently done work in C#. I've never once looked at low or mid level languages like C. The general consensus in the programming-community-at-large is that "a programmer who hasn't learned something like C, frankly, just can't handle programming concepts like pointers, data types, passing values by reference, etc." I do not agree. I argue that: Because high level languages are easily accessible, more "non-programmers" dive in and make a mess, and In order to really get anything done in a high level language, one needs to understand the same similar concepts that most proponents of "learn-low-level-first" evangelize about. Some people need to know C. Those people have jobs that require them to write low to mid-level code. I'm sure C is awesome. I'm sure there are a few bad programmers who know C. My question is, why the bias? As a good, honest, hungry programmer, if I had to learn C (for some unforeseen reason), I would learn C. Considering the multitude of languages out there, shouldn't good programmers focus on learning what advances us? Shouldn't we learn what interests us? Should we not utilize our finite time moving forward? Why do some programmers disagree with this? I believe that striving for excellence in what you do is the fundamental deterministic trait between good programmers and bad ones. Does anyone have any real world examples of how something written in a high level language--say Java, Pascal, PHP, or Javascript--truely benefitted from a prior knowledge of C? Examples would be most appreciated. (revised to better coincide with the six guidelines.)

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