Off to Qatar and some ranting

Friday, September 21st, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

So, I just settled in to my first-ever trip to Qatar. I took an SN-Brussels flight earlier this evening out to Manchester and now I am sitting in the Qatar Airways A320-300 getting ready to take off. Qatar Airways has a fantastic reputation so I must say I am quite excited to experience their in-flight [...]

Managing multiple Presentation Services on the same Unix box

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

As I had mentioned, I wanted to write up a bit on how to go about setting up multiple Oracle BI presentation services, each configured to access a different repository file (RPD) running on the BI Server. The thing is that you can easily set up the BI server so that it manages more than [...]

Summer is over

Sunday, September 9th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Well, not that summer actually ever arrived here in Belgium. It’s been quite the opposite of last summer, which was very hot and sunny. So I guess in average my two first summers here were OK., right? But the summer did bring me some changes. For the last 5 weeks I have been working as [...]

UKOUG 2007 abstract just got accepted

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Last Friday I got an email from the UKOUG Events Team informing me that my abstract, titled “Implementing Access Control for the new Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition” has just been accepted for the UKOUG 2007 conference in Birmingham, come December. I got a slot on the Wednesday, Dec 5th, right after lunch. This will [...]

It rains down in Africa

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

As Mark Rittman announced last week, I have just started collaborating with Rittman Mead Consulting. As a direct result I am now sitting in my hotel room in Lagos, Nigeria after the second day of running the Oracle BI EE Masterclass for a client. This is the first time that I run this course but [...]

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