Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

One of my team has just upgraded an OWB implementation on a customers development system. By and large most of the upgrade went well – everything was pretty much as described in the documentation. The upgraded code just needed to be called from a different shell script (we use a third-part cross platform scheduler product [...]

I finished banging Beryl in to my newly installed Ubuntu box last night. I run a dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10. The mix of IDE and SATA disks made Grub gag a bit but it all went ok in the end. I had previously installed Fedora Core (from 1 to 5) but decided [...]

Well, spring is here. Well, not exactly. The date has arrived but in sunny Belgium, we seem to have missed the whole event. It actually snowed today as we were enjoying our “Bring a plate” lunch, followed by the usual drinks (and this time even beer). These team-building are really enjoyable and everybody really seemed [...]

If there is a geek gene I have almost certainly inherited it from both of my parents. On balance this probably a good thing to have (at my age, if not necessarily when a teenager) and I have adapted my lifestyle to cope with it. But one thing that I struggle with is the ability [...]

Tomorrow is the OUG Scotland BI Tech SIG Meeting up in Edinburgh, and I’m about to get on a train up to Gatwick to fly up this afternoon. I’m doing two presentations, the PDFs for which I’ve just uploaded: Manage the DW Lifecycle using OWB10gR2 An Introduction to Oracle Data Integrator Apart from myself, Peter [...]