Watch the watch–before it’s too late. You are getting sleepy. Sleeeeeepyyyyyy. You want to register now for the September conferences in San Francisco. You want to see and learn about the newest products and meet experts and business leaders. You want to save money and get a big discount for registering early. And you only [...]
Watch the watch–before it’s too late. You are getting sleepy. Sleeeeeepyyyyyy. You want to register now for the September conferences in San Francisco. You want to see and learn about the newest products and meet experts and business leaders. You want to save money and get a big discount for registering early. And you only [...]
I’ve just got back home from ODTUG. Unfortunately my bag didn’t make it. Continental have played a blinder on this trip. I had an 8 hour delay on the way there and they lost my bag on the way back. Fingers crossed it will turn up soon. My first happy birthday (I’m 41 today) message [...]
Sorry for the lame title. This is just a quick note about Swype, the much hyped slide-your-finger-to-type keyboard that got a lot of buzz in 2008 at the TC50. Since I saw the demo a few years ago, I’ve always been intrigued by how awesome it would be to be able to type fast on [...]
I’ve just got my laptop back from being repaired at the Apple store. It is now quieter now than it was when I bought it. It seems apple can find a decent fan if they really need to. Fingers crossed now it will stay this way for a while. Unfortunately I had to brave the [...]
Day 2 started with an ACE panel session. There were more ACEs than attendees, but we all had fun chatting to each other. I guess one of the difficulties with this was it ran along side regular presentations, but such is life. Straight after that it was the second part of my PL/SQL Presentation Layers [...]
After threatening for years to start a blog Martin Widlake has finally put fingers to keyboard. Some of you may recall that I am a fan of his UKOUG presentations. His writing is entertaining and insightful too. Despite his blog being called Yet Another OracleBlog he has not written much on Oracle, but I expect [...]
Early this year I developed an ASM training that was implemented on Madrid and Tel Aviv. The idea was to have a set of exercises that will provide lots of hands-on experience to the participants, in a few days. On this and the following posts I will present the labs of the training. The training [...]