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An Early Christmas Present: Free code to list Published Content Links

Uncategorized on December 11th, 2009 No Comments

Howdy all, hope this note finds you well and recovering from Turkey overload.
Warning: This is a pretty specific discussion of a pretty specific situation that occurs when you’re moving a bunch of stuff around in Publisher.  If you’re not interested in Publisher and it’s idiosyncrasies,  you should save your time and skip this post.
Anyhow, with the [...]

Running WCI 10gR3 on Windows 2008

Uncategorized on December 11th, 2009 2 Comments

Howdy all.  It’s been a long week, so this one is short and sweet.  No witty anecdotes, no flowery prose and mixed metaphors, and minimal run-on sentences.  Just the facts before I shut down my machine for a bit.
Running WCI on Windows 2008 isn’t officially supported, but it’s kind of ridiculous to have to run [...]

Oracle Open World and the Night Obama Stayed at my Hotel

Uncategorized on December 11th, 2009 No Comments

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 this [...]

WCI 10gR3 Search Server and Publisher don’t mix together on Solaris machine

Uncategorized on August 24th, 2009 No Comments

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 environment [...]

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Function1 Welcomes Jeremy Ehrmann

Uncategorized on August 24th, 2009 No Comments

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 is fake-Australian, but work with us: It [...]

Hello World?

Uncategorized on March 6th, 2009 No Comments

Howdy all….anybody still out there?  No, we’re not dead…we’ve just been hibernating.  Like the great Grizzly bear of the north, we slept the winter away.  Except, in this case, instead of sleeping, we’ve just been taking a blogging break.  But the weatherman tells me it’s going to be 75 degrees this weekend in DC, and [...]