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Windows 8
Windows 8 Launch (Photo credit: Dell’s Official Flickr Page) If you read any of the technical reviews on Microsoft’s new operating system you will quickly come to the conclusion that Windows 8 is a...
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ADF Wow!
Disclaimer: The words that follow are my own and are not representative of Oracle nor it’s subsidiaries. While I work for one of the leaders in our industry in technology and business I do not write...
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Why I Hate Best Buy!
I need to give a shout out to two companies I have dealt with recently. Garmin; My wife bought me a Garmin Forerunner 610 GPS watch back for Christmas. In March of this year the band broke. I called...
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Long Time no Posts!
It’s been a while since I have published my thoughts on technology here in this space but I intend to change that. The reason for my absence has been 3 fold. 1.) The job at Oracle has really caused me...
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More On Find
At Oracle we do our development on Linux VMs running in one of our Data Centers. Because of this I have had to get real familiar with various linux/unix commands. I find this one particularly...
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ADF and Oracle My New World
I have made a move into the ADF world as I have returned back to Oracle to continue on my career path. The next series of articles will deal with ADF ramp up and my impressions of the technology as I...
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Grep For It
Ever try to find a file with a particular character starting a line. Try this.. grep -H -r ‘^W’ *.* This will print out the file and the text of the line that matches your regular expression. In this...
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Upgraded to Android 2.2(Froyo) for the Fascinate
After months of waiting, we have finally upgraded our Fascinate to Android 2.2. The actual act of upgrading was relatively painless, however the upgrade install and the results were typical Verizon...
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android emulator java.net.SocketException: Permission denied (maybe missing...
In order to give your Android Application access to the Internet you must set the permission within the Android Manifest File. <uses-permission...
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Carbonite Off Site Backup
So I have decided to backup my main hard drive using the Carbonite software and backup system. I say main hard drive because one of the biggest drawbacks of this method is that it doesn’t support...
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