Archive for April, 2010

A Webcenter Interaction 10gR3 install and an Oracle 11g Database walk into a bar

Portal on April 23rd, 2010 No Comments

Error accessing database! Check your config files and verify that your database is correctly scripted. It’s 2 AM, and these are not exactly the calm and soothing words you want to be seeing from PTSpy after a clean, fresh  install of your WCI portal. It is frustrating, it is alarming, and above all else, did [...]

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Function1 Welcomes Spheric to the Team

Function1, General on April 15th, 2010 1 Comment

Howdy all. This post is a bit late in coming, but exciting for me to share none-the-less. Function1 is pleased to announce its acquisition of Spheric Technologies. I could blabber on about what this means to us, our customers, and our loyal blog readers, but I’ll spare you all the pages of dialog and just [...]

On Music and Using WCI as a Corporate Communication Tool

Portal on April 8th, 2010 2 Comments

Since the age of 12 or so, I’ve had an on-going love affair with music. You know that scene in Almost Famous where William is going through the record collection his sister left him and is just blown away by the realization that all this music exists? Yeah, I had one of those moments, except [...]

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Terms of Endearment – Part 1: Understanding High Availability

Uncategorized on April 1st, 2010 2 Comments

Hello Everybody…so this is my first post of a multi-part series of topics covering terms that are often misused or generally confusing. There are a number of topics I want to cover at a general 101 level before looking at each in more detail during a 202 series. So without further a dieu, those of [...]

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