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I’m randomly up early on a Saturday morning and decided to use the time to put out this week’s belated blog post.  There are a bunch of things I probably should be writing about (including the WCI->Sharepoint migration tool we’re building…look for more info soon), but it’s before 8 AM on a Saturday, and I’m [...]

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 [...]

Look, I think we can all agree that The Godfather III sucked, and was a black mark on an otherwise amazing trilogy. The one (and probably only) highlight of the movie was Pacino giving us the sound-bite, “Just when I thought I was out, The pull me back in!”. And so we welcome Dave Paroulek [...]

In 2006, the famous (infamous? I can never get those two words straight) street artist Banksy put on a show in an LA warehouse named, “Barely Legal”.  The centerpiece of the show was “The Elephant In The Room”, a painted live elephant that seemed like, IMO,  a pretty blase metaphor all dressed up in shock [...]

Howdy all, and welcome to to the new decade.  To kick off the new year in style, you may have noticed that we re-branded our website.  New look and feel, new content, and new back-end engine:  we swapped Movable Type out in favor of WordPress.  So what do you think?  Like it?  Love it?  Hate [...]

Living in the DC area, you get used to sharing a city with the President. You see his motorcade driving down Connecticut Ave., he’s grabbing a half smoke at Ben’s Chili Bowl, your friend saw him on a random Starbucks visit.  In short, you just get used to him being around. So it wasn’t any big deal for [...]

Howdy all, It’s that time of year again.  Tens of thousands descending on San Francisco for Oracle’s annual conference.  Folks from the Function1 team will be there in force for the duration of the show.  And, like any self-respecting person under the age of 99, we’ll be tweeting the highlights, lowlights, and general oddities as [...]

Consulting can be a tough job. Sure, it all seems glamorous enough when you’re 20-something and don’t know any better.  ”You mean I get to work on new projects all the time and travel around the world on somebody else’s dime?  And get paid pretty decent to boot?  Sweet!  Sign me up”.  But then the [...]

Recently, I was helping a client upgrade their Oracle WebCenter Interaction portal from 6.1 to 10gR3 in a Solaris environment.  Yes.. this post applies mostly to Solaris installations only, so feel free to stop reading here … I won’t be offended :) Most of the upgrade was fine, but one of the servers in this test [...]

For years, Americans have enjoyed Australia’s unique exports: Hugh Jackman, with his Adamantium skeleton and rugged good looks, stole our hearts on the silver screen as everyone’s favorite X-Man Vegemite can be found on shelves of at least 2 grocery stores nationwide Outback Steakhouse has tamed the belly’s of budget-minded steak aficionados everywhere (Sure Outback [...]