Author: Jake

So, I’m back on track after yesterday’s detour to configure 11g and get it ready for the WebCenter schemas. I’m working off the WebCenter installation guide, by the way, Section 2.1.3 Create Schemas for Oracle WebCenter. Next step is to download and run Repository Creation Utility (RCU) which handily creates all the Fusion Middleware schemas… Read More

First, let me start off with a hearty thanks to John (@jpiwowar) for his help with my n00bism, a.k.a. Part 6 in this series. Also, thanks to those of you with DBA skills out there for not flaming me for my lack thereof. Part 6 was a bit of a disaster, but thanks to John and… Read More

Today, I hit a roadblock in my ongoing project to create a WebCenter VM. I was all ready to get started with the WebCenter install. I found the installation guide and ran the installer. Then, I hit the prerequisites. Looks like I need to create the schemas first with the Repository Creation Utility (RCU), available… Read More

Shortly after Chrome was released about 15 months ago, I remember Rich saying he had switched his wife over to it and was using it exclusively on Windows. I was skeptical. After all, I love Firefox and have used it happily for years, but Rich was also a Firefox guy. So, something must have sold… Read More

My latest kick is to catalog useful information for reference purposes, which is one reason why I embarked on a quest to create a WebCenter VM. Blogs are extremely good at SEO out of the box. So, it’s very likely that anyone searching for information on a technical topic will find a wealth of information… Read More

Ready or not, here comes another installment in my gripping series on how to create a WebCenter 11g R1 Patch Set 1 VM. In the last part, I went over the last few steps of the 11g install. This part focuses on WebLogic, which is the preferred application server for WebCenter. I don’t know if… Read More

Inspired by Chet’s comment, I’ve decided to add a few tidbits I’ve cataloged during my other project for today, rebuilding my Ubuntu box. Back when I began the WebCenter VM series, I mentioned my latest problem with Ubuntu. My bout with the flu took away all the extra time I had planned to spend on… Read More

While finishing yesterday’s Part 3, I decided to investigate how to add a swap file to my OEL 5 VM to accomodate at least one of 11g’s resource requirements. I may eventually have to bump up the physical memory allocated to the VM, which will completely cripple the host OS, but I’m bending the rules… Read More

Having been out a few days with the flu, I’m feeling a bit behind on my geeky project (see Parts 1 and 2 for background), so last night, I decided to tackle the next big step, installing Oracle 11gR2. Obviously, WebCenter needs a database, and I haven’t installed Oracle for a few years. So, this… Read More

I know very little, erm nothing really, about APEX, but I do know there’s a robust and tight-knit community of APEX developers out there, including (but not limited to) Chet (@oraclenerd) and Dimitri (@dgielis). I know this because friend of the ‘Lab Carl Backstrom talked about it a lot, like every chance he got. Little… Read More

I suppose a guy whose name means Christmas in some languages should be expected to go all out for the Holidays, but wow, color me blown away by friend of the ‘Lab Noel Portugal’s epic Christmas lighting hack. Check out the video. Like I said, *epic*. I’m not going to begin to break down all… Read More

It’s been clear for a long time now that a cornerstone of any new service is a good, open API. Twitter proved this point a long time ago. Now, everyone follows suit. Before I was felled by the H1N1, I happily reported that foursquare had publicly launched their API. I had hoped someone would use… Read More

It’s been quiet here for a while. Not sure anyone really noticed (or cared), what with the Thanksgiving holiday last week and all. Hope you enjoyed it, by the way. Anyway, I’m emerging from a week-long flu fog courtesy of H1N1. That’s right, yours truly caught swine flu, and let me tell you, it wasn’t… Read More

Earlier this week, friend of the ‘Lab Raimonds Simanovskis (@rsim) released ruby-plsql 0.4.0, which includes support for several complex Oracle datatypes and added some basic table and sequence operations for unit testing. As you know, we’re big fans of Ruby in all its incarnations, and if you’re an Oracle developer, you know PL/SQL. So, the… Read More

Right after I posted yesterday’s Part 1, I decided to try out the Oracle public yum server over at public-yum.oracle.com. I had pinged Justin over the weekend and his contact had pointed me there, and it turns out the same suggestion was also kindly added to comments shortly after I published. After following the instructions there,… Read More

I’ve managed to collect a handful of geeky projects lately. First, my move to Ubuntu 9.10 got fast-tracked. After the rocky move from 8.10 to 9.04, I figured I’d wait a bit on Karmic. But, last week, my drive filled up due to my backup package erroneously writing backups locally instead of to my backup… Read More

Paul, Rich and Chet are big fans of Jason Fried, the founder of 37 Signals. Although I’ve happily used several of their apps (Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire), until recently, I had never read their company blog, Signal vs. Noise, which frequently has interesting observations from Friend, DHH and others. Today’s installment by Fried, called “I’m a… Read More

Since last week’s post on the interwebs and fear, a couple other un-related posts have come across my reader that have me pondering the future of our beloved intertubes. First was Chris (#mrhashtag) Messina on “The death of the URL“, followed by Tim “What is Web 2.0” O’Reilly on “The War For the Web“. Both… Read More

Here’s another installment in the “we’re-a-for-reals-product-team” series. If you’re interested in WebCenter, but don’t have the time or resources to download, install and configure it on your own to kick the tires, you should sign up for a WebCenter Test Drive. Basically, the test drive will give you a hosted sandbox environment where you’ll have… Read More

If you’ve been reading here lately, you’ll know we have a crush on foursquare for a number of reasons: it’s fun and engaging to play, it’s a new shiny object, it applies game mechanics to solve a problem, etc. On Monday, they officially announced their API. I had heard around the way that there was… Read More