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    Oracle to Ingres migrations

    http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=12729I'm a bit curious about what the PL/SQL is being migrated to: you didn't say. If it's another proprietry format (albeit Ingres' and therefore "free") then who cares? Ok, less licence money but

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 26 May 2005

    Increasing demand for open-source developers?

    Letter to the Register in response to this"There is an increasing demand for high-value, high-paying jobs that require skills in open standards technologies like Linux,..." - what does she base this on? Where is the research?Nope, I'm still

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 25 May 2005

    Scare your users, Python

    HmmmJust got asked to remove a feature I demoed over 6 months ago because it "scares" users. Relatively sophisticated way of refining a data set with a pop-up that allows you to refine the what you can see in a column on the web page, then

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 17 May 2005

    PLS-00307: too many declarations of '' match this call

    I was getting this when I did the following: l_session_info.set_attribute( render_context_portlet.g_roi_code_preference, null ) ;This is because the procedure is overriden with multiple data types. When you give it a null it doesn't know which of the

    Comments (0) . Monday, 16 May 2005

    MySQL, Python, etc.

    MySQLDecided to move my project to MySQL because it seems to be more of a standard compared with Postgres. This is a pity because I like Postgres a lot, but you have to go with the flow and if I'm going to work on some non-Oracle skills I should at l

    Comments (0) . Saturday, 14 May 2005

    Open Source

    Lots of competent people, who think carefully about the problem, making small contributions is how it works. Don't knock it. I'm a bit jealous of people who have made a contribution, which I know is weird of me. At times I feel like I'm trying to do

    Comments (0) . Friday, 13 May 2005

    Software Patents

    In response to http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=12700This seems a very bad caricature of the open source view. The way I understand it is that the ideas behind the software can be patented rather than just the software itself. So, for

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 5 May 2005