Oracle is making an IE Toolbar November 21, 2006
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It seems that the limited space on browsers wasn’t crowded enough. Or Oracle believes that we don’t have enough IE toolbars with pop-up blocker function yet.
Apparently, Oracle just announced its own version of Toolbar for IE – Oracle DBA Toolbar
The Oracle DBA Toolbar (available for Internet Explorer only at the
moment – yeah, yeah, we know; a Mozilla/Firefox version is forthcoming)
gives you one-click access to key DBA resources on OTN.
Features
- Pop-up Blocker
- Integrated RSS Manager
- OTN Search
- One-click access to SQL*Plus install, Downloads, MetaLink, and more
- Online Support
Another Pop-up blocker?! What if I already had Live/Google/Yahoo/eBay/…
Well, I think I will pass this one.
FYI: It IS a feature which you don’t find in Firefox July 6, 2006
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There is a interesting article on ZDNet Australia: Windows shortcut ‘trick’ is a feature: Microsoft.
The article suggested that it was a security hole to run an executable throught IE. Microsoft said that it is a feature!
That is right! It is a feature, it is a unique feature of IE which you don’t find it in other browser. And
we’ve been using it in our company.
Heard of .Net’s no touch deployment? This feature of IE gave us the
ability of hosting our executalbe apps on server. No installation on clients,
just open IE then type in the path to .exe. The feature saved us time to go around and install apps on client computers. Best of all, everytime we revised the apps, such as fixed bugs, all we need to do is just recompile the apps on the server. That is it! Next time when the user tries to run it, it will automatically refresh with the latest version. I just love it.
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Microsoft’s SourceForge – CodePlex May 18, 2006
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Microsoft is undertaking a project that aims to spur community development around the platform, Called CodePlex,
the site will host projects by parties that would be made available
under a variety of licenses, including Microsoft Shared Source and the
GPL, among others.
Currently 19 projects are hosted on the
CodePlex site. These include a Commerce Starter Kit that allows
developers to use ASP.NET 2.0 to access Paypal; IronPython, an
implementation of the popular Python programming language for .Net; and
Turtle, Open source client for Visual Studio Team System. “You can use
CodePlex to create new projects to share with your fellow developers
around the world, join others who have already started their own
projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback,”
Microsoft says.
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Implementing Ctrl + F in Oracle Fomrs 10g April 3, 2006
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Q:
I have a button on a form, which I want
to be accessible using the
keys Ctrl + F – Is this possible?
A:
in forms 9i/10g you have to edit the fmrweb.res-file.
The notation in the document is described in the upper section.
# FMRWEB.RES is the key definition file for webforms. The syntax is:
#
# JFN : JMN : URKS : FFN : URFD (whitespace ignored)
#
# JFN = Java function number
# JMN = Java modifiers number
# URKS = User-readable key sequence (double-quoted)
# FFN = Forms function number
# URFD = User-readable function description (double-quoted)
#
# JAVA FUNCTION NUMBER
# 33 = PageUp
# 34 = PageDown
# 35 = End
# 36 = Home
# 37 = LeftArrow
# 38 = UpArrow
# 39 = RightArrow
# 40 = DownArrow
# 65 – 90 = Ctrl+A thru Ctrl+Z (These will always have the control
# modifier explicitly included, as well as any other
# modifiers that might be used.)
# 112 – 123 = F1 thru F12
# 9 = Tab (Ctrl+I, without the control modifier)
# 10 = Return (Ctrl+J, without the control modifier)
#
# JAVA MODIFIERS NUMBER
# Equal to the sum of the values for the modifier keys:
# 0 = None
# 1 = Shift
# 2 = Control
# 4 = Meta
# 8 = Alt
#
# FORMS FUNCTION NUMBER
# The Forms function numbers match the function numbers found in a
# typical Forms key binding file.
#
# USER-READABLE STRINGS
# The double-quoted strings appear when users click [Show Keys], and
# are used for this purpose only. These strings can be translated as
# needed. Note that the strings do not affect what actually happens
# when end users press a particular key sequence.
#
The rest of the file represents the key-mappings of all shortcuts. e.g.
9 : 0 : “Tab” : 1 : “Next Field”
9 : 1 : “Shift+Tab” : 2 : “Previous Field”
85 : 2 : “Ctrl+U” : 3 : “Clear Field”
…
…
121 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F10″ : 82 : “Function 0″#112 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F1″ : 83 : “Function 1″
113 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F2″ : 84 : “Function 2″
114 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F3″ : 85 : “Function 3″
115 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F4″ : 86 : “Function 4″
116 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F5″ : 87 : “Function 5″
117 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F6″ : 88 : “Function 6″
118 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F7″ : 89 : “Function 7″
119 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F8″ : 90 : “Function 8″
120 : 3 : “Shift+Ctrl+F9″ : 91 : “Function 9″
in your case you have to add
70 : 2 : “Ctrl+F” : 83 : “Function 1″
In this case you match the hotkey Ctrl+F with the internal forms-hotkey “KEY-F1″
Now you can write your code in forms in a KEY-F1 trigger.
IMPORTANT Note : The KEY-F1 trigger has normally nothing to do with the hotkey F1 !
Technorati Tags: Oracle, programming, Oracle Forms, Oracle 10g
VMware freed GSX Server February 6, 2006
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Feb 6, 2006
VMware annouced an free version of their GSX server- VMware Server
VMware Server, the successor to VMware GSX Server, enables users to
quickly provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server
into multiple virtual machines, bringing the powerful benefits of
virtualization to every server.
VMware Server is feature-packed with the following market-leading capabilities:
Support for any standard x86 hardware
Support for a wide variety of Linux and Windows host operating systems, including 64-bit operating systems
Support for a wide variety of Linux, NetWare, Solaris x86 and Windows
guest operating systems, including 64-bit operating systems
Support for Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors
Quick and easy, wizard-driven installation similar to any desktop software
Quick and easy virtual machine creation with a virtual machine wizard
Virtual machine monitoring and management with an intuitive, user friendly remote console
http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/server_beta.html
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Express Everywhere January 30, 2006
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Are you a Database programmer? If the answer is yes, you might have a chance to work on one of those free version of mainstream database before, such as SQL Server MSDE 2000/Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express, Oracle 10g Express (XE). Now here’s a newcomer, IBM DB2 Express-C, the IBM version of free database.
BM is set to deliver a free version of its
enterprise DB2 database software on Monday, following in the footsteps
of competitors Oracle and Microsoft as they fend off the adoption of
open source offerings MySQL and PostgreSQL.IBM DB2 Express-C
only limits the hardware that the database can run on, but is otherwise
identical to the full-fledged DB2 release. The software can be
installed on machines with up to two AMD or Intel processors, and
utilizes up to 4GB of RAM. There is no limit as to the size a database.<script language=”javascript”
src=”http://ads.betanews.com/adserve.iframejscript/www.betanews.com/MPU@Top?433553473″></script>Oracle’s free XE edition,
meanwhile, is limited to systems with a single processor, 1GB of RAM
and 4GB of database storage space. The company says it is targeting
students, small organizations and software developers looking to
integrate a database into their applications.Microsoft introduced
SQL Server 2005 Express with the product’s launch in November, which
available as a free download and is designed specifically for testing
with Visual Studio.The release are a response to free, open
source offerings like MySQL and PostgreSQL that have gained immense
popularity among smaller companies and individuals without big pockets.
MySQL is used by a number of major Web companies including Yahoo and
Google.
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