TweetShareSharePin0 SharesAs I wrote a while back I was accepted to speak both at the User Group Leader summit at DOAG16 and at RMOUG Training Days. The first one was a short presentation where I talked about a large bug in Oracle security and the need to patch and upgrade to not have that exposure. It was great fun as it was limited to a four-minute talk. I learned a lot from preparing for it as that short time allows for […]
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Get your virtual mojo on
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesI have for a few years created a play environment in a similar way. Getting a database installed in a VM is not too hard. But I found that I did it fairly often and not always in the same way and not always without having to resolve problems I know I had solved before but since forgotten the solution for. Right, write everything down. Yes, it was time for that. So I now have my notes in order […]
Signing up for scary stuff
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesSo I subscribe to the idea that the only way to improve is to dive in on the deep end. Sink or swim. With that in mind I sent in an abstract to RMOUG and actually got it accepted. Now, this is a conference I used to attend every year when I lived in Denver. I know the quality they have in most presentations nad I know that lots of people with “important” names in the community attends. I have […]
OTN Appreciation Day – The Community
The community is the greatest feature of any Oracle product.
Getting from http to https
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesThe world is moving to https, but that was not the reason for the move. Initially I was happy to use whatever Digital Ocean (DO) supplied in the WordPress droplet. But as I explained in my last post, I had some problems with moving from wordpress.com to my self hosted site at DO. In short the problem turned out to be Chrome caching sites that accepts https making my site unavailable to every visitor that has been to my site in […]
Moving to selfhosted and failing hard
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesI had decided to move one of my blogs to a self-hosted model to get more control over plugins and other things. After reading up a bit on different vendors I found Digital Ocean to be my choice. What’s not to like with a place that can spin up a complete Linux with WordPress installed and ready for me to use? Yes, it only takes them seconds and it is powered by SSD. Adding that it costs $10 per month […]
An old dog learns a new trick
TweetShare1SharePin1 SharesReports of this blogs death have been greatly exaggerated. It has been very quiet here though while I worked on getting the Swedish part of Miracle started. It is now rocking the Stockholm market so it’s time to get back into more geeky stuff. Talking of which. I have encountered Liquibase for database versioning time after time and always come to the conclusion that it is not what a DBA want to use. I recently took it out for a […]
Is your database secure? Are you sure? Are you *really* sure?
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesA friend and at the time co-worker at Kentor AB found this bug. He found the bug and had the tenacity to track down and prove that it was a bug and not just a flaw in the logging mechanism where this first was indicated to occur. Today is the day when I can finally speak about a bug I asked for a peer review on over a year ago. I had to pull that blog post offline when […]
It’s a Miracle
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesTime to get back into blogging. I stopped a while ago and the reason was twofold. As I was leaving my job at Kentor AB I wanted to avoid any concerns with what I wrote while my three month long two week notice played out. The other reason was that once I had left life got really busy both with work for my client as well as with the new adventure I had departed on. The new adventure is […]
Google reader is dead, long live RSS
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesSo calling Google Reader dead may be a bit premature, but Google’s announcement of their intention to kill their baby all but killed it. On monday it is RIP for the reader. I’ve gone through disbelief to mourning the loss to a search for a replacement that best emulates what Google Reader does. In the end I decided to not just find something that just replaces it with a new tool providing the same exact feature only with a […]