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A surfeit of caches

Share your cache storiesOkay, good or bad, share your favorite stories about how a cache helped you or made your life hell.

Tags: rexworld

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Avoid Oracle Portal at all costs

Any experience with other JSR-168 containers?If you've used one of the other JSR-168 containers out there, what did you think? I'd love to hear any experiences, good or bad, with the alternative products out there on the market.

Tags: application servers, oracle corp., rexworld, portal, jsr-168, oracle application server portal

Discussion threads 2007-09-01

Learning Oracle ADF: Simple JSF data view/entry form

Found it -- you have to add a Commit actionOkay I found the problem with my form. Turns out dragging over the Submit and Create isn't enough. Those actions create and submit into the model but not into the database. There's a separate Commit action you can...

Tags: rexworld, commit action

Discussion threads 2007-08-20

Odd little Oracle JDeveloper bug

Are little videos useful?Okay, so my first try at a YouTube screencast flopped--the audio track did not survive after the AVI got converted by YouTube. I'll try and figure that out before I do this again.But ignoring that, I was just hoping for some feedback on the overall appeal...

Tags: java development tools, corporate communications, enterprise software, rexworld, youtube inc., oracle jdeveloper, oracle corp., video

Discussion threads 2007-07-26

World's most useless tech support document

Your nominees for most useless tech support document are...Now it's your turn--nominate the most useless tech support document you've ever seen. It has to be a true tech support document. A posting by some person in some tech support forum doesn't count. I'm looking for an actual...

Tags: rexworld, now it, tech support document, useless tech support

Discussion threads 2007-07-19

Builder.com is dead, long live Builder.com

Anybody out there an attendee of Web.Builder?Just curious, were any of you attendees at the Web.Builder conferences in the late 1990's? If so what did you think? What did we do right, what did we do wrong?

Tags: rexworld, web.builder

Discussion threads 2007-07-11

Why I'm not looking forward to Safari's success on Windows

Am I just being a curmudgeon?Am I just being too much of a curmudgeon about Safari on Windows? Maybe I am only seeing the glass half-empty--what are some of the positives that will come out of Apple's inevitable success with Safari?

Tags: operating systems, rexworld, safari, microsoft windows

Discussion threads 2007-07-07

Sharing an identity space between Oracle databases

Any other uses for shared sequences?I'd love to hear any other uses you might have found for this ability to share sequences across database instances, or across multiple tables in the same instance.

Tags: storage, databases, rexworld, database, oracle database, oracle corp.

Discussion threads 2007-06-27

Nintendo has intentionally crippled the DS browser

Am I missing the point?So am I just completely wrong in thinking that Nintendo's DS browser has been crippled because it only works in a sub-set of available hotspots?

Tags: rexworld, nintendo co. ltd.

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

Can good debugging skills be taught or is it genetic?

Can somebody be a programmer yet lack debugging skills?Have you worked with somebody who could program yet couldn't seem to pick up debugging skills? If so what was your technique for helping them learn debug skills?Debugging is mostly experiencePatience is a big part of it too, having to sort...

Tags: development tools, rexworld, debugger, programmer

Discussion threads 2007-06-13

A (slightly) prettier multi-select

Highlighting does not seem to work in IE6Sorry I forgot to mention in the main article that the highlighting hover effect does not seem to work in IE6. It runs fine in IE7 and in Firefox 2. I'm not certain about Firefox 1.5, I think it should work...

Tags: web browsers, rexworld, microsoft internet explorer 6

Discussion threads 2007-06-07

Consistent error logging greatly simplifies PL/SQL debugging

Share your error-logging tipsOkay, you've seen how I log errors in my PL/SQL app. ow do you deal with logging errors in your database apps?

Tags: programming languages, databases, rexworld, pl/sql

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

Photos: Worst tech of 2006 (so far)

Certainly the most over-hyped technology of 2006 so farUnbelievable how much ink, both real and virtual, was devoted to the Origami launch. And it turns out the things are priced so high you might as well buy a low-end laptop.Of course Microsoft will keep chipping away and eventually they...

Tags: photos, worst, overhyped, rexworld, hardware, photograph

Discussion threads 2006-04-14

Another view

Perhaps some people will buy new computers because they won't be getting an operating system where the paint isn't yet dry. Vista could be another Windows ME.Vista delay could sting PC makersHow can this not affect Q4 sales?The part I find unbelievable is Microsoft's insistence that the Vista delay...

Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows vista

Discussion threads 2006-03-22

Reality check for the much-hyped Origami PC

Early adopters only?I'm thinking this first generation of devices looks kinda weak. Early adopters only need apply.Not saying that the concept won't work eventually. I can definitely see it catching on at some level. I know a number of people who travel frequently for work and for...

Tags: handheld, origami, umpc, ultra mobile pc, photograph, early adopters, rexworld, hardware, origami pc, pc

Discussion threads 2006-03-09

What DVD/scene to use when shopping for speakers?

What DVD/scene to use when shopping for speakers?Back in the day (i.e., pre-Internet Bubble) I was told to bring a copy of "Star Trek: Generations" when I went shopping for new speakers. The scene where the Enterprise crashes onto the planet has everything–dialogue and music playing above the gigantic booming...

Tags: speaker, speakers, dvd, rexworld, off-topic, dts, movie

Discussion threads 2006-03-06

Anything made by Canon...

Also FUJI/Finepix makes a good camera, we have had a A207 model for three years now and works fantastic.Recommendations for a small and cheap digital camera?I realized I only post photos to Flickr when I'm on vacation. But there's interesting images going on around me all the time. ...

Tags: camera, canon inc., digital camera, digital photos, flickr, photograph, rexworld, sony corp., video

Discussion threads 2006-03-01

This is a test

Please ignore, this is a test postI'll ignore itBut I'll bet that others can't.ThanksJust trying to help our engineers figure out the intermittent 404 errors we're experiencing in the Community app.Third one this weekIt's a new record for "Please ignore" postings. Rex, that's the fastest way to get a...

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Discussion threads 2005-12-21

Favorite tools for LAMP development?

So I've been dragged somewhat reluctantly back into the software development world, working on a PHP interface that lets users search our content database stored in MySQL. Basically there's nobody else available to work on this, so I'm jumping in to help out even though I kinda suck as...

Tags: apache software foundation, database, eclipse, ftp, ide, lamp, lamp development, mysql, php, phpmyadmin, programming, rexworld, tool, tools

Discussion threads 2005-12-21

Typo costs quarter-billion dollars

If you ever wondered how much one typo can cost, take a look at this story about a Japanese brokerage house:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10394551/They've lost almost a quarter of a billion dollars so far off one little typo. And it's not the kind of typo that spell-checker software would have caught.I know...

Tags: stock, rexworld, typo

Discussion threads 2005-12-09