Read and monitor Oracle related blogs and news sources, all in one place.
I have decided to write up some posts for my first couple days’ experience with Glass. I am not planning to go deep into the technical details regarding Glass in these posts, but may do so if there are enough interests.
Prologue
When Google first announced Google Glass in Google (more...)
Oracle 12c is around the corner and due that I have received many questions from fellow DBAs about what was new about Backup and Recovery at 11g I have decided to write a small white paper about it.
Hope you will enjoy reading it as much I enjoyed writing it.
We ran into Floyd (@fteter) last night. His cyborg transformation is complete.
Note the serious demeanor, with Glass power comes great responsibility, or something.
Backstory, Anthony (@anthonyslai) finally got his Explorer Series Glass unit on Sunday. Funny story, its display had a few dead pixels, three (more...)
I don’t normally pay much attention to games, but after GeoGuessr showed up in both the Verge and Kottke.org, I took notice.
It’s a very simple, but difficult game. GeoGuessr drops you into a random place that Google has mapped with Street View, but without any metadata, just (more...)
What is new in SQLT? A couple of new stand-alone utilities. Both can be used without having to install SQLT. And both are only for 11g+. Look for sqlt/utl/mon and sqlt/utl/spm. The former is to monitor executions taking longer than 5 seconds (requires Oracle Tuning Pack and it uses the (more...)
Execution Plans have a strong dependency on CBO Statistics. In corner cases, a small change on the Schema Objects statistics creates havoc in an Execution Plan. If you strongly suspect the only change to your environment was a CBO Statistics gathering, you may consider restoring them to a prior version (more...)
This blog has been around for six years, and given how varied and banal a lot of what I write is, I’m stunned it’s lasted that long.
While at Collaborate in April, John (@jpiwowar) mentioned something about the blog that resonated with me. He said he appreciated (more...)
One of the aspects I like about my newish team, Applications User Experience, is access to real research. Through eye-tracking, the usability labs, ethnographic research, focus groups and a host of other tools, AUX collects data from real users to help us understand how to build better (more...)
I’ve been doing more tinkering with my development toy, the Nexus 7, and kudos to Anthony (@anthonyslai) for finding this gem.
WebKey is an Android app and accompanying service that allows you to manage your device from a browser.
WebKey (Play Store link) isn’t new. (more...)
PBS Off Book has a short and interesting look into wearable computing. Check it out, h/t MAKE and Geekosystem:
Aside from the recent, top-of-mind examples (Google Glass, Pebble), I’m amazed at how functional smart garments have become. Innovation has been happening in both the fashion and DIY circles, but since (more...)
Hi All
I have made small investigation about redo generation. From early days of my career I was remember that nologging operation is very performance effective but never try to quantify this very.
Every application can theoretically be split into 4 groups of tables (I use my personal names but (more...)
When Facebook launched Home earlier this month, it marked the first time in quite a while that I was excited to use Facebook.
What excited me wasn’t using Facebook per se, but exploring the possibilities of moving beyond the app.
Despite only being officially supported for a handful of phones, (more...)
My trip to Guadalajara a month ago was dual-purpose. First, we’re hiring there, so we had interviews. Second, we were assisting with a hackathon.
Since running the Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge at OpenWorld last Fall, Noel (@noelportugal) and I have become “the hackathon guys,” which makes me (more...)
I have a new toy, a Nexus 7, which is why I ran across the device offline issue in Android 4.2.2.
The N7 ships locked, which seems a bit odd, but no biggie. This will be a development device for me, and once I got it unlocked, (more...)
Here’s another installment in the never-ending documentation of stuff for posterity.
This chapter concerns a change made to Android 4.2.2 that could cause you some headaches if you’re an Android developer, modder or hobbyist. Google added a whitelist for USB debugging in 4.2.2 which adds another (more...)
As of last week, Anthony (@anthonyslai) didn’t mention that he had received a note yet from Google about the Glass Explorer program unit he had preordered.
Even so, he was excited at the prospect of receiving it soon.
He’ll be even more stoked now that details of the (more...)
Last week while I was traveling, I was reading a story from Wired about Firepad, a collaborative text editor that can be easily added to any web page to allow, well, collaboration. Think pair programming meets Google Docs.
A couple sentences in, I notice a quote from none other (more...)
RSS