Simplify Configuration Management and Compliance Controls For Database Environments
Wednesday, December 3rd
8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/4:00 p.m. GMT
For registration please click here.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Management Pack for Oracle Database can help you save up to 80% on managing database configuration and compliance. Join us for this technical presentation and demonstration to discover how this solution can help you collect, report, track and compare system configurations to maintain consistent, up-to-date database environments. The discussions will include the Database Compliance Dashboard, a new capability for tracking and managing your database compliance score.
During this presentation, you will see a live-demonstration of the following Configuration Management features:
- View and analyze configuration and deployment information
- Search based on predefined criteria.
- Compare configuration information to identify and eliminate configuration drifts.
- Manage policies, including policy notifications and user-defined policies.
- Database compliance dashboard
This year I feel really let down by the Oracle User Group - Stellent Day at the ICC Birmingham [UK].. And I’m sure the handful of other Stellent UCM developers who turned up felt the same. The networking session was a joke , with under 15 people turning up of which 3 I think were from Oracle.. Where was everyone this year??
Even the presentations that were held were quite light with less than 10 people attending..
Just got back from a presentation on RTD (Real Time Decisions) by Dan Wingrove.
Interesting stuff - looks like a new product which integrates with Oracle UCM helps to manage content displayed to the user dependent on the details the system can find on the user.
I can see this being a great tool for marketing, but I’m sure there must be better products out..
But if your using Site Studio and are into heavy marketing you have to check out the demo 
I`m Finally Here!
Caught the train in this morning around 9ish and walked in - got my pass and now just waiting for the floods of Clients interested in E2.0.
Iv Met with Oracle and a few Exhibitors not been to any presentations yet looking to go into “Microsoft Sharepoint and Oracle ECM - A happy marriage?” and “Dynamic Personalisation”
5 days to go!! 
Another year another UKOUG annual Conference - but this year it is going to be even better. Why? Because I`ll be there!! Just kidding.. This year UKOUG is celebrating 25 years of serving the Oracle community.
I wont be there for the 4 days as I have too much going on with a major URM project role out. But you may see me Monday, I`ll be hanging around the Ether Solutions stand Come over and chat!
Sigh.. ..
The joys of the internet last night someone decided to try and attack my server - as you may have noticed there was a major slow down and you were lucky if you could connect :’(
I stopped apache this morning, let everything process and catchup. So everything is back up for the moment but we will see how things go…
Content Management Simplified
Still not much up on the site but the articles posted are interesting and cover some of the Oracle UCM technology and some how to’s 
I`ll be adding this to my links section soon - I`m sure there will be a couple of great articles posted here in the next couple of months.
Yesterday, whilst working on my VM instance on my external harddrive, I came across CRC error. Which I was convinced was down to VMWARE corruption as I could access and manage files on the hard drive with no problems. But every time I launched into win2003 server on VM I would get a CRC popup message that would prevent me from booting into the OS..
Important!! And this is what I think caused the problem:: about 15 minutes before the errors there had been a power cut which must of somehow shocked my USB HD.
After hours of defragging, putting the HD in the fridge giving it to the dog to play with I decided to try and move the 25gb VM image onto another machine this is when I got a message from the XP complaining about the CRC error. ooooh..
So to fix the CRC error on the hardDrive::
Make sure you defrag your HD first!
I use Defraggler Its far superior to windows defrag.
1. Right click and select properies off the harddrive - mine was g:drive
2. Select the tools tab
3. Under error-checking select the “check now” button.
4. Enable / tick the 2 check boxes and hit start.
5. This will take a good 8hrs + but should fix your probs.
6. You when you boot your OS in vmware it may ask you to do a scandisk I chose yes to this and everything worked out fine
Today I was fortunate enough to be invited into a Webcenter presentation with two Oracle representatives.
I was quite happily shocked with what I was shown. And will be taking back the rant I left a week a so a go, about Oracle portal technology “being a pile of poo”. It actually looks good, even though I am presuming its not yet complete as Oracles demo was a slide show / video presentation!…
I`m gonna have to say well done to the BEA team! I can see they are starting to have a positive effect on Oracles software. Keep up the great work guys, I am loving the improvements its slowly getting as sexy as sharepoint!!
P.S. Please just get rid of that Oracle UCM portal component and force your clients to use Webcenter! Thanks..
This last week I have been suffering with the flu.. 
And its totally sucked!! I think I may have had around 10 hours of sleep in the last week!! no joke. zzz zz z
Plus, because I`v got a major HR project setting up & customising Oracles URM & kofax environment - I’ve been forced (ok, not forced) to go into work to get this project complete and keep it on track..
I wouldn`t of been able to do it without The coca-cola drink “RELENTLESS”!! It looks like a can of beer and tastes of Thai Redbull ( if you`ve not had thai redbull then just imagine syrup that you put on pancakes)- I don`t know how its legal because its like drinking 3 cans of redbull - but its allowed me to carry on functioning and not falling asleep on my desk. THANK YOU RELENTLESS - now to get some sleep and go back to coffee
URM testing begins Monday!!
Ive been catching up with my blog RSS feeds this week and noticed this handy tool..
EtherPad - unfortunatley its not developed by us over at EtherSolutions.But its still pretty neat.
It allows for a perfect way to collaborate on documents/ applications in real time..
So if any of my colleagues are having problems with some of their code off site they can send my a url and I can help collaborate and fix any problems I find, it also has javascript syntax highlighting and revision creation
http://etherpad.com/
Over the last week I’ve been working with RM creating series, disposition cycles, retention categories etc..
Its a slow tedious job
Mainly because the UCM isn`t really AJAXY. And each page takes around 3-4 seconds to load zzz…
But wait there is a solution..
Go grab yourself the latest nightly build of firefox from minefield.
HERE!
You could try google or opera but I have found that Firefox works the fastest for me, navigating around the UCM. I`m currently running 3.1B2 and there seems to be a significant performance increase but Im sure there are probably a lot of bugs in it that I havent discovered… So use it at your own risk, Im using it on my VM.
Whilst catching up with the general blogs, I came across Typealyzer (article at Bex`s blog) and thought Id give it a go.. See what type of writting style I emit, to the occasional people that stumble across this site.
I was quite shocked to see that my results were quite similar to Bex; maybe this is just because Typealyzer is still in beta. (Im not sure, but I was still glad of the results)
Anyways heres how I was anaylsed::
Johns Blog: ENTJ - Extraversion, iNtuition, Thinking, Judging.
The direct and assertive type. They are especially attuned to the big picture and how to get things done. They are talented strategic planners, but might come off as insensitive to others needs and appear arrogant. They like to be where the action is and like making bold and sweeping changes in complex situations.
The Executives are happy when their work let them learn and improve themselves and how things work around them. Not beeing very shy about expressing their ideas and often very outgoing they often make excellent public speakers.
I was surprised to see that I came out as an extrovert, because that not really me!
I am a true computer geek, so Im usually very introvert and quiet except when it comes to presentations and discussions with clients then I seem to be quite open. But if you ever see or meet me at an Oracle event or come out for a beer, I`ll usually be the quiet one listening to the conversations or enjoying my pint.
Active Collab
If I did a site of the month Id add this site!
Go check it out! Usability, design and functionality are great the designer or team did an amazing job on this web application well done guys I love it!
Info::
ActiveCollab is a project management and collaboration tool that you can set up on your own website. Have an area where you can collaborate with your team, clients and contractors and keep projects on track while retaining full control over access permissions and your data.
As we all know from reading all the blogs - Yahoo have announced and done a prerelease of YUI 3.x! Woohoo this is great news but wait!!
Is YUI 3.0 Backward Compatible with YUI 2.x?
Simple answer - NO!.. Here’s my rant..
So what does this mean for Oracle UCM and those custom components you’ve developed with YUI?- Well I guess it means a rewrite of a lot of code to upgrade.. Thats if the plans are to upgrade to 3.x in 11g - however I`m still scratching my head trying to figure out where the UCM really benefits from the use of YUI and where it’s actually used!! Don`t say the folios component ‘drag drop’ functionality needs such a huge framework to achieve this?
Please someone point out the benefits and what has been achieved with YUI on the UCM? (popup calander etc.)
If Oracle have been waiting for the 3.x framework before starting any real Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 then thats great news! But as far as I`m concerned I`m really dissapointed with Oracles latest releases!
There has been all this hyp of web 2.0 and ent 2.0, Billies release of his Web 2.0 book - but have I seen any of it in the UCM?? No, why are you hiding it from me?
To me Oracle are just throwing this web/ent 2.0 in as big keywords to make the UCM sound amazing and uptodate!! In reality, I can`t see any evidence of its use or benefits it has made within the UCM..
Maybe I just haven`t been looking hard enough but I couldn`t see anything!! I`m serious..
If I`m wrong Oracle, please tell me and my readers what and where this web2/ent2 stuff is hiding and dont you dare come back to saying its in your Portal.. I know I`m not the only UCM developer who is quite upset by this.
Yeeeaahhh!!
So today wasn’t all that bad.. Even though it would of been better if I wasn’t involved in a car crash.
Anyways.. I managed to get my hands on what I think is the latest Oracle setup VM instance
Oracle had a supplier workshop event yesterday and today here in the UK; discussing and showing off WebCenter Services and its Enterprise 2.0 capabilities they also handed out VMs with what I believe to be the latest UCM, blog, wiki 2.0.. well everything… I`ll let you know next week what it has on it and all the interesting things I find!! The VM I have is ECM_BASE_6_PLUS_WCM so look out for it at your Oracle events!!
At the moment though I feel like a kid in a sweet shop I’m so excited.. The VM is currently being copied onto my computer, I cant wait to try it out!!
(Yes its really bad(SAD) when you get excited about software you work with day in and day out).
It feels like christmas and I can see myself playing and experimenting with this till 4am..
THANK YOU ORACLE!!
I was involved in my first ever car crash today 7:30am.. It really sucks
I was on my way to Nottingham to get my gokart serviced and the BMW driver in front of me slammed on her brakes. Which led me to to do the same, only my brakes didn’t work too well and I found out later that my brake discs were pretty badly corroded.. Air bags didn`t go off which I thought was rubbish. lol even though I was probably traveling at 30..
I now have to wait for the car to be fixed 2 weeks of work at £4k thank god for car insurance..
You can see my little toy car here before the accident :’(
So my days pretty much been wasted sorting out a car phoning the car insurance getting them to pay for the damages etc..
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