Building Smart Lists from an Inbox

Photo by koalazymonkey on Flickr used under Creative Commons Saw an interesting quote attributed to Mark Zuckerberg yesterday: But guess what? Nobody wants to make lists. A bit out of context, but Zuckerberg was expanding on the best way to share things with a network of people. He’s absolutely right about lists. They are simultaneously [...]

Winning at GMail

By way of John Gruber, Mike Monteiro has finished the GMail game by successfully using up its storage, which amounts to 8.19 GB. An irony pointed out by a commenter, GMail does boast “Who needs to delete when you have so much storage?!” in its Trash folder. When GMail launched, its storage limits were fantastically [...]

cx_Oracle 5.0.4 Python driver for Oracle Database Released

Anthony Tuinga has released the cx_Oracle 5.0.4 Python driver for Oracle Database. Details are in his Sourceforge mail announcement.

cx_Oracle 5.0.4 Python driver for Oracle Database Released

Anthony Tuinga has released the cx_Oracle 5.0.4 Python driver for Oracle Database. Details are in his Sourceforge mail announcement.

Re: Oracle ADF 11g with Oracle SSO 10.1.4

Hi Prasad, Appreciate your help. pl. copy me in my mail “g v b s v v @gmail.com”…

What I learned about "Security"

I travel a lot. Because of that, I use ‘hotspots’ all over the place. I am connecting through Germany right now and had to sign up for a T-Mobile hotspot. They require you set up an account – to buy a 60 minute pass (I don’t really like that, I don’t want an account but [...]

JDBC Triggers

Received a question from a customer last week, they were using the new rollup patch on top of 10.1.3.4.1. What are these boxes for? Don't you know? Surely? Well, they are for … that new functionality, you know it's in the user docs, that thingmabobby doodah. OK, I dont know either, I can have a [...]

Time Matters: Throughput vs. Response Time – Part 2

In one of my Hotsos Symposium 2010 posts I mentioned that Peter Stalder had plugged some test results from an earlier blog post into Neil Gunther’s Universal Scalability Law to see how well the model applied. Peter’s posted his slides now and I’ve added the URL to the comments thread of the original post so [...]

US on DayLight Saving this Week – Take Note of Webcast Times

Having been away for a few weeks, I’m now catching up on mail and work and backlog and it seems the US have changed to Daylight Saving while I was out walking… If you’re joining the Data Modeler webcast on Wednesday, please take note that the US times are as originally advertised, and the UK [...]

Conditional Bookmarks

Happy New Year everyone! Hopefully you are well rested and getting back into the swing of BIP. I took 2 weeks with a huge list of to do’s … sadly I managed only 2/10! A friend once told me to put a couple of things on a list that I had already done so I [...]