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Yes; I have seen a lot of hatred and confusion over this term – CEOs going “I don’t want my employees to play I want them to WORK.. There is a reason I blocked facebook.. ..”
But wait; it’s not all that bad once you un…

Uninstall JDeveloperQuick tip: In case you need to uninstall JDeveloper for example when installing a new version of JDeveloper or WebLogic Server, here is how:
Locate and run from the JDeveloper / Middleware home (eg C:\Oracle\Middleware ):

On Window…

A few years ago I was blogging about architecture using composition of different storage technologies for queering and persistence of data. Rationale behind this was further explained in other my post.Below is a sketch of such composition:Unlike classi…

Today I was speaking at CloudCamp Moscow. Below is slidedeck.

Today I was speaking at RIT++ at Moscow. Below are slides at russian.

It is important that as a speaker I have my own ideas and thoughts, but that is about my style and predictions, it is not right to make things up or mis-represent, we have obligations to be honest.The most important measure of a speaker in our world is…

I really do enjoy speaking, I love to share knowledge. I am really proud to work for a company that sees the value in that.My first presentation apart from the IOUC meetings was a small off piste audience where I talked about the choice between upgradi…

I often say how proud I am to be part of the ACE Program, and again they made it possible for me to attend Collaborate.Also and more importantly to me the ACE Program enabled the Fusion Apps UX Advocate program to happen and that is my real passion, le…

I’m useless at getting my blogs done in a timely manner and as my friend Floyd says  “ There are plenty of travelogues of “I did this and I attended that and we ate here” regarding Collab” and not to be left out here is mine.The Speaking, UKOUG,…

I love the immediacy of twitter so here are my ‘what I learnt’ tweets from #C12LVWhat did I learn at #C12LV #8   Not just me but all ACEs outside the US now know what 'No Host Dinner' meansWhat did I learn at #C12LV #7   #Fujitsu was a grea…

Fishbowl Solutions wrapped up a successful Collaborate conference on April 26th. Here are my 12 takeaways from the event – in no particular order.

A lot of user group crossover. Badges denoting the various user groups – IOUG, OAUG, Quest – w…

In this screencast I explain the support of multi-lingual content of eXo Platform 3.5. The different features that you can see in this video are:Support of multiple languages from URL Configure the eXo File Explorer to add support for multi-lingual co…

This post is to add the “Create new web content in Site Studio” missing functionality to my previous post.

The highlighted button will open the Site Studio Content Wizard in a popup.

You can download the new source code from here.

When you install the AIA 11.2 “Comms Order to Cash: SBL CRM and BRM Pre-Built Integration” you will be asked for the BRM Connection Details: I used the following settings for my environment: After successful Deployment I got the following error…

Okay so now in the iTunes Store is my first attempt at an application that does something actually useful. Its the Carbon Travel Tracker. I travel a lot, not as much as some but quite a lot more than most, two questions always came to mind

1) Just how…

It can happen that a Oracle VM Server somehow doesn’t want to leave a server pool. I encountered this when I removed a clustered server pool (by, of course, first de-assigning the server nodes assigned to it, and then removing the server pool). It so…

If you are not familiar with Content Presenter, please stop reading this post and look into the documentation, after that you might want to come back to this post. I guarantee it will be really useful in the future.

As you might already know now, Con…

I noticed when working on a Solaris 11 Intel machine that x11-forwarding works a bit differently than in Linux apparently. My benchmark is always:  if I can run xclock on the server, and the xclock window opens on my client (desktop) machine, then X11…

As UKOUG President I was representing us at the recent Collaborate. Although not an official meeting place of IOUC like Oracle Open World (OOW) and the Presidents’ Summits, there are always meetings arranged and the committees have public meetings to…

I recently installed several Fusion Middleware servers on Solaris 11 Intel from a client PC that was provided to me. I installed the OFM on JDK7. It was running Windows 7 and had the Xming X-server installed. I noticed that when using the Fusion Middle…