Bratislava

Oh, actually, there was one more non-technical post I’d forgotten. With such a rush between the course I taught in Bratislava, a quick trip to London for work (and some hairy performance problems) and UKOUG, I never got round to mentioning how the course trip went. First of all, I loved the brief look at [...]

Programming Note

So, we changed hosts last week, and now, Network Redux (@networkredux) in beautiful Portland, Oregon is handling our beloved blog. If you’re wondering, it’s pronounced re-ducks, not re-do. That one always gets me. Anyway, this move should clear up some of the issues we’ve had recently with downtime and running out of memory. There have [...]

Another Aussie Oracle blogger – Scott Wesley

Did I already post/tweet/email about Scott and his blog somewhere? I forgot. In the rush up to Oracle Open World, and moving house, I’m losing track big time of what I’ve done and haven’t done. If I turn up to OOW without any pants you’ll know why. Anyhow, Scott Wesley, a fellow SAGE-ite, has taken [...]

Twitpocalypse II: Developers beware of DB variances

Alert: “Twitpocalypse II” coming Friday, September 11th – make sure you can handle large status IDs!Twitter operations team will artificially increase the maximum status ID to 4294967296 this coming Friday, September 11th. “Twitpocalypse (I)” occured back in June, when twitter and application developers had to deal with the fact that message status IDs broke the [...]