All I can say is ‘thanks Borkur’ The first evening was initially led by Mark, but after he had paid the bill for everyone at the curry house, he sneaked off for an early night.So up stepped Borkur to save the day, and the rest, as they say, is history….
Author: Adrian Ward
30 Years working on Oracle systems, specialising in Oracle analytics. Previously known as OBIEE, and before that Seibel Analytics
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A sneak preview of 11g?
I think I have found my favorite client. Not only are we analysing 4GB of data, 4 times every day, in a 10 minute ETL, but we’re adding some cool features to the dashboards. One feature is tree view. Those who use APEX will be familiar with how these work,…
iMAP the iPhone
I may be a bit slow, but I catch up eventually. Given that I am reading my emails on the iPhone I did not want to read them again in Outlook. Turns out that instead of using POP you can use IMAP, which keeps all the mail readers up to…
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Rittman Mead and Majendi Join Forces
I am pleased to announce today that Majendi is Joining forces with Rittman Mead. All my technical bogging will now be on the Rittman Mead blog, but watch out for some personal stuff on here. We finalised the deal over lunch in Zurich, a very civilised part of the world….
Me down to a tee
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The day after April Fools
I hope you all got fooled yesterday. I fell for one, hook line and sinker! Anyway, to continue with happy thoughts for a day or two longer… A man flying in a hot air balloon suddenly realizes he’s lost. He reduces height and spots a woman down below. He lowers…
New iPhone
I finally took delivery of my iPhone today. Although it 16Gb, which is more than enough for my music collection, I know it will be out of date by tomorrow. So can someone tell me what the iPhone replacement will be please! Of course on it I will be able…
MICS
“KISS is out, MICS (make it complex stupid) is hot” Great Article by Toon Koppelaars. If you are more than 21 then this will be an interesting read. Everyone else, stick to the PS3 /PSP tonight! Many of you will have heard of Jonathan Lewis – http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/who has some great…
Brilliant
The brilliant, yet undiscovered talent that is Christian Berg finally launched into the blogging world http://hekatonkheires.blogspot.com/ Good luck with that Christian. News UPDATE. Final details are being put to the announcement which will be out very soon now. Can you guess what it is yet? Market Update Who do you…
What Occuring
As usual I have been keeping an eye on the Jobs Market, checking out the availabilty of consultants and roles.As you will see from previous posts I have been guaging the state of the Oracle BI / Siebel Analytics market by the number of jobs advertised, and number consultants I…