Well, the craze at the moment is the whole ‘8 things’ thing and whilst I heartily agree with Howard about the potential this has for making the aggregators work overtime, it would be rude (and very bah-humbug) to not take my turn after being tagged by Tim Hall.
So my turn for 8 things about me [...]
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Don’t you love car insurance…
Well it’s that time of year again when I need to trawl the websites and find out which one of the ridiculously high price car insurances is actually the cheapest.
I remember when I was 19 I was told the insurance gets cheaper when you’re over 21, when I was 22 I was told it gets [...]
Unwinding in Brussels
After the training, Dimitri took me out to see a bit of Brussels (I didn’t get much time to do that during the training). I have to say I was really impressed with Brussels, there are lots of great places to visit (sadly not enough time to see them all), but there are some really [...]
It’s all in the question
These days I get quite a lot of emails from people asking general questions about Application Express, or have questions about a specific problem (ranging from installation issues through to some quite obscure, difficult to replicate situations).
Now, I do try and answer these questions as quickly as I can (which is a general rule I [...]
Clearing out the cupboards
I had a bit of a ’spring clean’ in my study this afternoon…ok, it wasn’t so much a spring clean as trying to find somewhere to put some CD’s that wasn’t already full. I found a couple of old CDs that I got from OTN a few years back.
The first CD was Oracle WebDB [...]
Regular Expressions and APEX
If, like me, you’ve ever wrestled for ages trying to understand why your regular expression isn’t doing what you think it should be doing, then you might find this application created by Flavio Casetta useful.
Of course I like the application because it’s also written in Application Express!
Hash or Crypt…Hash or Crypt?
I read this story over on the BBC news this morning and sadly it’s not an uncommon one, except perhaps this one is on a *far* bigger scale than we usually hear about.
In a nutshell, a big US retailer has had data ’stolen’ which contains customer credit card details, over 45 million customer credit and [...]
Now this is scary…
I’ve been checking for a while…and today I noticed it is finally being listed
It’s a strange feeling indeed seeing something you’ve written on there!
APEX Amnesty
I don’t usually like to advertise the services I run on Shellprompt Hosting in this blog, however I’ve had a few emails lately regarding people who are actually using the public Oracle APEX server to run production applications (that’s against one of the few rules that the public Oracle server has).
Well, to try and tempt [...]
I want one of those
I watched the Apple keynote which was released yesterday and as soon as I saw the iPhone I knew I wanted one. This ‘device’ looks absolutely gorgeous, it’s fit well in the hand unlike some of the other bulkier smartphones out there) and as you come to expect from Apple, it lets you perform the [...]