Data Conversion

There may be a change in the air with H M Winning and she may be devoting more time to her subject matter and writing. Give a thumbs up on this entry if you would be inclined to read more in depth discussions of conceptual, design and analytical thoughts and tricks. Thanks

From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I will be giving a couple of presentations this year at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference in Washington, DC. I am posting the presentation, in pieces, here in order to get feedback. The

Make your phone smarter without a smart-phone

Slick portable telephone service over the Internet.

The silence is deafening

From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology The ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 is in Washington, DC from June 27 - July 1. If you will be in, or around, Washington DC on June 27th (Sunday), you can now sign up for just the one day symposium of your choice. This is a change. Previously, you had

From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I think it's probably no surprise what I think of Monty Widenius's recent stupidity regarding the Oracle purchase of Sun. The only thing I can figure out is that after controlling the license of MySQL for so long and then making his money on the sale of it to Sun (for waaaaaay too much), he now somehow

If you sign up, the system will generate a phrase for you. I didn't like mine as there is no way I would ever remember it. They also list some suggestions but I didn't like those. Almost every suggestion included the word "bread". They trying to tell me something? I swear I've cut back on the carbs!

Did I say these tools are free? FYI: If you are a consultant or technologist, what tools are you using - that the general user population could benefit from?

As I mentioned a while back, Fusion Middleware 11g will be launching, officially, on July 1. You can join the festivities in DC by logging into the webcast, July 1 at 10am EST. I don't know if the breakout sessions will be included but it will be at least the keynote and I would bet a demo, possibly