Apr 24 2008
I will be offline for one and a halve weeks, to join my family in law, in their celebration of the Greek Orthodox Easter bank holidays in Salonica. I will greatly enjoy my favorite kokoretsi with some tsipouro, with anise of course, as is tradition in Macedonia. What can I say…real men… I hope “I …
Apr 22 2008
At current state, my world is a container and it is useless. I want to store content in it but I doesn’t comply to my container… Today I visited Cary Millsap’s blog site and read his latest article about “Messed Up App of the Day” and could sympathize with his remarks. While looking for other …
Apr 21 2008
AMIS was invited by the Dutch television channel RNN 7 to tell how we approach the market to invite good and enthusiastic Oracle and Java technicians to come and work for AMIS. Related posts: AMIS Oracle 11g Overview Did you miss something… AMIS Query with Toon Koppelaars (RuleGen) Oracle VM is open for business 
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Apr 18 2008
Triggered by a post from Eddie Awad about Current Date in an Oracle database called “Give Me The Current Date Please”, I thought about a XMLDB Forum discussion that ended up in a discussion about JavaDateTime. This discussion focussed me also on XML date time formats. Those XML (W3C) date time formats are explained on …
Apr 16 2008
I just read the new edition of the online Oracle Magazine and saw that Thomas Kyte was awarded the newly named “Ken Jacobs” (IOUG) award. I have had the honor to meet both and can only express my deepest respect. My congratulations to both of them. Marco Related posts: Ramblings about Mentorship… OOW2K6 – and …
Apr 15 2008
Just a very simple post, but sometimes these kinds of small items are, to my surprise, more looked after then I sometimes realize. Database I don’t like the Oracle 11 DIAG directory in its default place, namely in the $ORACLE_BASE. The remedy is very simple. Just create a new DIAG directory. SQL> SHOW parameter diag …
Apr 13 2008
At AMIS we are always looking for alternatives on behalf of our customers, also we are very keen searching for solutions. Something that looks promising and could be an alternative to Coherence is something called GridGain. GridGain was pointed out by my friend Erwin when I came to visit and when I saw the demo’s, …
Apr 08 2008
I was awarded with an Oracle ACE award last Thursday, nominated by my “mentor” (as I internally refer to him) Mark D Drake, Senior Product Manager, XML Technologies, Oracle Server Technology. The ACE Award is, amongst others, acknowledged for significant contribution and activity in the Oracle technical community. I see it as an award for …
Apr 06 2008
Just before I forget. I must have this album, this is just awesome… Its typical that a lot of that great music is from the same label “Magna Carta”. Jordan Rudess – Rhythm Of Time Oh, and by the way, the peace is called “Ra” and apparently, from what I have read about the album, …
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