We are in the midst of a series investigating collaboration. We previously wrote about the two types of collaboration – intentional and accidental.
INTENTIONAL: where we get together to achieve a goal and
ACCIDENTAL: where you interact with something of mine and I am never aware of your interaction
While intentional collaboration is good it is not [...]
A new version of JDeveloper is out on OTN – looking at the version number you might think this is just a patch release with some bug fixes, but in reality it is quite a major release for us.
The new features document should be here shortly.
In the meantime, some of the features you might want [...]
My colleague Tao Zhang has been working on a jconsole plugin which will let you monitor Berkeley DB Java Edition stats in real time. This will be especially useful for helping our customers debug performance issues. We’re all really excited about this new feature which will be available in JE 4.0 (the corporate [...]
He showed a graph of log(CPU clock speed). It was essentially a linear line from 1975 until about 2003. Since then it has been about flat, even down a little bit. Then he overlayed a graph of the # of cores * log(CPU clock speed). After a few years of flat [...]
What are those .plz dump files in my user dump directory ?
-rw-r–r– 1 oracle dba 15168 Oct 6 14:34 _anon__3ca8c5e38__AB.plz
-rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 15883 Oct 6 14:45 db01_ora_10061.trc
-rw-r–r– 1 oracle dba 15168 Oct 6 14:45 _anon__3c929b088__AB.plz
-rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 15895 Oct 6 14:47 db01_ora_10666.trc
-rw-r–r– 1 oracle dba 15168 Oct 6 14:47 _anon__3c8651198__AB.plz
let’s check one, briefly :
*** ASSERT at file pdw4.c, line 2080; Type 0xffffffff7d79fb40 has [...]
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YouTube published (h/t TechCrunch) an interesting graph of its video ratings earlier in the week.
YouTube uses a five-star scale for rating videos, and according to them, rating a video one star means you “loathe” it, while rating a video five stars means you love it.
The data show [...]
I just finished reading or re-reading a half-dozen great short texts about data formats and protocols, in the XML/RDF space.
I started with this “do we need WADL” post by Joe Gregorio (since the previous entry made me go back to WADL which is used by Rackspace). Under the guise of a Q&A about WADL, Joe’s [...]