My ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
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Every year ODTUG – Oracle Development Tool User Group – organizes a conference, called Kaleidoscope. This time it was in Monterey, California. If you have never been to …
Category: Software Development
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Oracle Enhances XBRL Reporting Capabilities with UBmatrix, Inc.
June 27, 2009
AMIS, Architecture, Database, DBA Oracle, Development Tools, Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, XML
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Oracle posted a press release about their involvement and commitment for UBMatrix XBRL technologies last Wednesday saying (among others): "To help publicly held companies facilitate the preparation, publishing and …
Fast Swap in WebLogic 10.3 (and JDeveloper 11g) – redeploy after compile in running application
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Dinsdag 16 juni – Verslag van JavaOne 2009 – in woorden, plaatjes en veel demo's
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"Hotsos Revisited", Revisited…
May 19, 2009
AMIS, Book reviews and Publications, Databases, DBA Oracle, IT, Oracle, PL/SQL, Software Development
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May 18, 2009
Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, IT, Java, Oracle, PL/SQL, Software Engineering
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It’s Monday night and a select company of DBAs and Database developers have gathered at AMIS HQ in Nieuwegein for the ‘Looking Back at Hotsos 2009’ session. It …
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IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Web/Java
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April 22, 2009
AMIS, Announce / Events, Architecture, Book reviews and Publications, Databases, DBA Oracle, Development Tools, IT, Oracle, Tools
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Begin maart 2009 werd in Irving, Texas, het internationale Oracle Performance Symposium Hotsos gehouden. Ook dit jaar stond het symposium garant voor inhoudelijke hoogstaande presentaties en discussies over performance. Vier …
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IETester: Develop and test your site for multiple versions of Internet Explorer
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IT, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Tag Cloud analysis in SQL and PL/SQL – Using Collections, Table Operator, Multiset and Collect operator
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(Dutch) AMIS kennissessie Scrum
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Management of Boilerplate Text in JavaServer Faces Applications
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IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Logging in JDeveloper 11g / WebLogic Server
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Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, PL/SQL, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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When developing an application it makes sense to add logging to this application. The Apache Commons Logging is a way to implement logging to your application independent of the …
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IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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One of the rather cool pieces of functionality that did not make it into the JDeveloper 11g Boxer release of early October 2008 is the Meta Data Service …
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January 7, 2009
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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IT, AMIS, Project Management, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools
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This is the ninth of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. The purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and …
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AMIS, Architecture, Database, Development Tools, IT, Oracle E-Business Suite, PL/SQL, Software Development
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