“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.” It is spring. Time for planting new seeds. I started on a new job last week, and it seems that few...

At the time of writing this post, Oracle Forms 11g installations are configured by default to work with a specific JPI (Java Plug-In) version: 1.6.0_12. You can verify this by checking your formsweb.cfg...

Chapterhouse Dune is the last in the Dune series by Frank Herbert. It’s really hard for me to make a judgement about Chapterhouse: Dune. On the one hand there are some excellent characters and the...

How do you want to start the day? I’m guessing it’s not to be called out to the front of the room by a speaker and used as a guinea pig, while they ask you trick questions to make you look...

So Day 1 (part 2) didn’t go to plan because I forgot to take my camera or my phone to the party. Suffice to say, lots of food, lots of drink (for those that do) and most importantly lots of dancing....

Last night we all got together to eat some food and chat. Julian Dontcheff is practically a savant where Bulgarian Poetry, World Cup match results and random Oracle facts are concerned. Although Christian...

My good friend, Marcelle Kratochvil, is the Oracle ACE Director for (as she put it to me) "all data/any data." She's been working with Oracle since V4 and specializes in Oracle Multimedia. She has been...

The call for papers is open for Tech 13 – the “server-side” conference of the UKOUG. The conference was getting so big that we’ve split Apps from Server Tech and will be running...

The red carpet has been laid down at this Log Buffer Edition, and you can witness and cheer the cat-walking blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL. Every one of them is chic, elegant, sensual in...

Sometime back I was involved in a project which was to collect information for the servers we are supporting – creating inventory of servers. Logging into each server and collecting information is...