Announcing the Suggest-a-Session winners! (The Oracle Mix Blog) The results of the Oracle OpenWorld / Oracle Develop Suggest-a-Session voting are in. Tim Bonnemann shares the list of winners. (tags: oracle otn oow10) Oracle Storage Guy: Upcoming VMworld Presentation "My take is that the purpose of cloud computing is to improve cost and manageability in highly [...]
Dr. Peter Tonellato runs the Laboratory for Personalized Medicine at the Center for Biomedial Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tonellato and his team recently deployed Oracle Database 11g in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment, enabling the team to be up and running with innovative genetic testing models in record time.
No, I didn’t buy one, so my review is limited to five minutes of fiddling with a display model at Best Buy. Here’s a protip. If you want to touch/feel an iPad and don’t have any friends who’ll let you mess with theirs, avoid the crowds at your local Best Buy. I swung by in [...]
For any large OBIEE project the normal set-up would involve having a development machine, a test machine, Production machines and some form of disaster recovery. These normally need to be on separate physical machines, mainly for access rights reason and of course the DR machines need to be in a separate building (hopefully in a [...]
Thanks to a tweet from the @foursquare team and a post from TechCrunch, I have a new app for checking in to foursquare, Fourface. Yeah, I know foursquare and location generally have been getting a lot of ink here and other place. Get used to it though because heading into SXSW later this week, location [...]
Business process management (BPM) is getting more momentum. The BPMN 2.0 specification is getting final and has a few new nice features, for example a model standard so that models are interchangeable between tools. Another new feature is easier event implementation, meaning that it will be easier to run a BPMN process. This week I [...]
Dr. Peter Tonellato runs the Laboratory for Personalized Medicine at the Center for Biomedial Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tonellato and his team recently deployed Oracle Database 11g in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment, enabling the team to be up and running with innovative genetic testing models in record time. Link to [...]
authlogic is by far and away my favourite authentication framework for Rails. I’ve raved enough in my slides on Authlogic_RPX. It’s true beauty is making authentication so unobtrusive for application developers. However, the same can’t be said for Authlogic plugin developers. I spent quite a bit of time meandering through the authlogic source and other [...]
[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and part 2 was an analysis of how REST applies to configuration management. Both of these entries received [...]
[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and part 2 was an analysis of how REST applies to configuration management. Both of these entries received [...]