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Launch day decided
D-Day is Oracle OPen WorldSo, there we have it a launch day is decided. Initially when the first lines of code were written on Memorial day weekend in 2007 the first date I came up with was 1st August...
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Amazon Web Service Startup Shindig
Amazon EC2 and S3So I have been tracking Amazon Web Services for some time. So, being signed up I got an invite to a event at Stamford University (those who know me, I know, don’t get me started). It...
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Red Rock cafe is the place its at
Product demo's in Mountain ViewSo I met an old friend in Mountain View for dinner and a coffee. I have know Roger B for many years back from my Oracle days. He’s been V.P of Engineering or higher roles...
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Alpha!
Code completeOk, at 11.45pm on Sunday, September 23 2007 I can finally declare Alpha. I’m using the old Oracle notion of basically the code is written there are just one or two bugs to get out of the...
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The Marketing begins
Oracle Open World is just a week away...So marketing is in full force. Thanks to the totally awesome folks at jakprints, we have T-Shirts, Flyers and Business cards on their way to San Francisco... as...
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Private Beta Begins
So what are friends for after all...So I roped up a bunch of esteemed friends and former colleagues to bash the site and give feedback... after 24 hours of battling a timing bug in the systems, that...
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Finishing Line?
Are we there yet?So the finish line, or is it the start? I’m too tired to answer but happy to get to Oracle Open World and let Joe Public answer the question. So where’s the scores on the doors? Well...
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Launch Day
Launch at Oracle Open WorldSo a 24 hour period to be forgotten. I had this troubling bug, that I could not reproduce. Sometimes it would come up and sometimes it would not. It was Saturday night and I...
View ArticleWhat's up?
So what's happened since the launch? Well all the normal things, keeping the site running, dealing with bugs and feedback and thinking about something new to add...I think it has struck me and just...
View ArticleBlob, Binary and other Java hardships
So, what's the difference betweenbyte[] fred = {-122, -97, -120, 111};System.out.println(fred.toString());System.out.println(new String(fred));Well, you would same they should print the same right....
View ArticleVMware Fusion fun... not!
So thank god to Wikipedia and Google. I had been trying to run Oracle under a Linux O/S under a Virtualized Server (yes, I'm that trendy). But could not get Oracle installed. Each time it tried to...
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Oracle runs on an Intel Mac ... really!
So darn Oracle, when the hell will there be a native port to Intel Mac? I don't know, they all must be slacking around doing cool Linux and Xen stuff instead.So I had 10gR1 running on my PowerBook G4...
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A fist full of VMware analytics
So the next goal for the product is VMworld Europe. I have been busy coding away to extend the analytics to cover file-system scanning to determine duplicate blocks. Its proving a bunch of interesting...
View ArticleAll quite on the western front?
So what exactly has been going on? Well a lot of painstaking analytics that's what. Its a bit like CSI, its all forensic fingerprinting and dna checking. I thought I would do something quite noel these...
View ArticleWrite it down stupid!
So I have just paid the price, lets say conservatively at 2.5 hours. The simple solution would have been to write everything down. But you never know when. As is always obvious, "when" should not been...
View ArticleVMWare Fusion Shared Printer Fun (or three hours to print a single page)
So, this should be simple right? I have my main Mac (some 8 core mainframe thing) where I run multiple development environments and a whole host of virtual machines running various Oracle version on...
View ArticleEnd of life... Oh Amazon stop making me do work!
So, like many early adopters I have the pain of being an early adopter. The most recent is the delightful email I got from Amazon.Dear Amazon SQS Customer,This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming...
View ArticleAnt, SCP and EC2
I've have had to deal with a strange set of circumstances1. No ant-jsh.jar in my deploymentI got the errorBUILD FAILEDDeploy.ant.xml:57: Problem: failed to create task or type scpCause: the class...
View ArticleResizing a RHEL 4 & 5 LVM in a VMWare Guest
Nothing like starting the new year with an "out of space" problem.So, I have a RHEL 5.3 image running under VMWare Fusion. I needed more space in order to install some more software... easy I thought...
View ArticleFusion 3.0 slow down...fixed!
I had purchased Fusion 3, at a discount because I was part of the Beta program, but mostly because I brought into the fact that it was optimized for Snow Leopard and was faster. Was is there not to...
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