Discusses the state of the OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence) community forum, moderation ideas, and hopes for the upcoming OBIEE 11g release.
A guide on migrating an existing ASP.NET application to the Windows Azure cloud platform, including demo code and deployment steps.
Highlights from Microsoft PDC 2009 Day 2 keynote, covering Silverlight 4 Beta, IE9 previews, and WCF RIA Services.
Highlights from Microsoft PDC 2009 keynote, focusing on the 'three-screen' cloud vision, Azure, and new developer tools releases.
A developer troubleshoots and resolves a sawserver error related to a corrupted web catalog during an Oracle BI installation.
An experimental JavaScript approach to creating elastic textareas that auto-adjust height without hidden divs, discussing browser compatibility.
Analyzing Django's error messages by replicating common typos from a Rails tutorial comparison to see how helpful they are for debugging.
A developer's critical rant about the problematic migration from Oracle Metalink to the new My Oracle Support system, focusing on poor usability and performance.
Guide to configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services Plug-in for load balancing and failover across multiple OBIEE servers.
A tutorial on localizing ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation error messages using resource files instead of hardcoded strings.
Advanced Google search techniques for finding Oracle OBIEE documentation, PDFs, and resources, including using alerts.
Fixing ORA-28001 and ORA-01017 errors when changing expired passwords on Oracle 11g using 10g clients.
A developer investigates a bug where OpenOffice incorrectly sends desktop switching signals, acting like a pager instead of a text processor.
A blog recommendation for posts covering Entity Framework errors, stored procedures, and dynamic LINQ queries with expression trees.
A programmer debates the ethics of downloading out-of-print, pirated ebooks when legal digital versions are unavailable, weighing copyright law against practical and environmental concerns.
Announcing a presentation on OpenXML document interoperability from an open-source perspective, featuring PHPExcel and OPENXML4J.
A screencast tutorial demonstrating how to use the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder to improve code maintainability and testability.
A tutorial on implementing partial page updates in ASP.NET MVC using jQuery and a custom action filter to switch master pages for Ajax requests.
Announcement of upcoming talks on Hades, a Java persistence library, at various developer conferences and user groups.
Explores the conceptual role of metadata in Java EE development, comparing annotations vs. XML and discussing separation of concerns.
