Virtually there

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 by Peter Scott

I have a couple of days between assignments so I am spending a little time doing research. Ultimately, there is a piece to write on Oracle 11g OLAP, and some course notes on aspects of data warehousing. But do this sort of thing I need to get myself set up with a database (Enterprise Edition […]

My first week at Rittman Mead Consulting

Friday, November 16th, 2007 by Peter Scott

Well, it was not spent in San Francisco!
I spent a couple of days working through some best practices for a group developing a new management information system on OBI SE-One and then spent the rest of the week trekking between home and hospital where my younger girl had her appendix removed.
I have also been setting […]

Fake Larry Ellison Starts Blogging

Saturday, August 4th, 2007 by Mark Rittman

If like me you’re a Mac owner who’s been following with interest the Fake Steve Jobs blog (try here, here and here for a sample), you’ll be amused to know that Steve’s away for a while and Fake Larry Ellison has taken over for a few weeks. According to FSJ:
“Bit of news here. Larry Ellison […]

Book Writing and Parallels Coherence

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 by Mark Rittman

I’ve been a bit remiss recently in keeping the blog up to date; what with planning for the forthcoming company seminar later in January, and writing a new article on XML Publisher in my spare time, I’ve not really had much time to keep the blog up to date; also, compared to things such as […]

OSX Parallels, ODTUG and Forthcoming Seminars

Monday, June 5th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

I’ve had the Mac now for about a week and I’m starting to get the hang of it.
Thanks to all those people who replied to my earlier posting; I’ve worked out
how right-clicking works now (why don’t they just include a second button on the
trackpad? It’s thousands of times easier than ctrl-clicking or doing the
two-fingers-on-the-trackpad routine. […]

Taking Delivery of my New Apple Macbook

Sunday, May 28th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

I
joked the other day that I was so pleased that Arsenal lost the Champions
League final to Barcelona, I was going to order one of the those
new Macbooks - well I
actually did it in the end (there’s schadenfreude for you) and it arrived
yesterday, just in time for the bank holiday weekend. Hats off to Apple
actually; the […]