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 [...]
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 is [...]
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 started [...]
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.
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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 plugins in [...]
[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 [...]
[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 [...]
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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 [...]
Rittman Mead guest blogger Steve Divine presents two alternative OLTP models as a first step in building a library of 3NF model patterns and their OBIEE implementations.
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