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I am sitting in my hotel room, bathed in beautiful sunshine as the sun dips towards the snow-capped mountains. Better make the most of it for tomorrow is forecast to be a lot (like 19ºC) colder and maybe even a touch of snow. Not that we will see much of the outdoors from the convention […]

Up early, as I always am and met Mark for a 6:30AM breakfast. Was criticised for eating “Fruit Loops” as that’s not the sort of thing that the sane consultant eats…
Then back to the hotel room to get a little work out of the way before crossing the street to the Conference Center to get […]

This time next week I should be back in the UK (but probably still trying to find my baggage at the airport!) after presenting my first conference talk in the USA.
I have been through the slides, made a few adjustments and cut a CD copy as a backup to my laptop version (and it is […]

The proposal deadline for the upcoming Collaborate 08 was shortly before I was to leave my old employer - it was already known that I would be leaving them to join Mark and Jon (and possibly, it was known before Rittman Mead Consulting existed!) so it came as no real surprise for Mark to ask […]

There you are - I’ve mentioned it. But I have not downloaded it yet.
One of the things I do with any new release is to read some (no, not all) of the documentation. The new features documentation, of course, is a given and enough of the of the other stuff to have a good idea […]

Well I’m back in the UK now, and I’ve had yesterday and this morning to myself before the family gets back from Ireland. We’re all back at work tomorrow (well school and nursery for the kids, we haven’t got them working as chimney sweeps yet) so I’ve been earning a few brownie-points giving the house […]

An early night for me for once, as I’m back now from the Oracle Press event and catching up with the last few presentations of the day. In the end I went to the Server Technology Beta Program event, then the Oracle Press event, and I got a chance to spend some time with Arup […]

I woke up this morning with the mother of all hangovers after spending the evening in an Irish Bar around the corner from the Moscone, but at least my bag was still with me with my laptop still in it. Compared to leaving your laptop in a bar, sorting yourself out with a strong coffee […]

I’m sitting now in the Speaker Ready-room down in the Moscone South mezzanine, in between sessions on Oracle Database 11g and the BI Suite Enteprise Edition & Standard Edition presentations later this afternoon. The morning started off with the Chuck Rozwat keynote on Oracle’s database technology, a run through of the new 10g products launched […]

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I wanted to take a look at SCD2 and 3 handling using OWB10gR2. This was prompted by the fact that up until now I hadn’t really looked in detail at this feature, and I’d been reading a few articles and blog postings that suggested the way it […]