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How to sucess. A 3 minute lecture that could change your life

by on March 20, 2007 in Uncategorized

This must be the best, when not the only, lecture you will have to understand in life. These simple “rules” can be applied to your everyday software development as well as to your dealings with people and goals in life.

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Get Column Name and Data Type from Oracle with SQL

by on March 15, 2007 in Oracle

Just a short tip on how to retrieve the Column Name and the related Data Type with SQL. Simply issue the following SQL within Oracle:

select column_name, data_type
from all_tab_columns
where table_name = ‘YOURTABLENAME’

This will return you a output with the column name and the data type for it. Remember that Oracle is case sensitive and the table names are all in uppercase in your where select for the table!

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Converting a BootCamp Windows installation into a Parallels Virtual Disk Image

by on March 15, 2007 in Apple

In my previous post I wrote about using Parallels together with a BootCamp partition. Now I decided to save on the 32 GB partition and use its space for my Mac OS related stuff by converting the BootCamp partition into a Virtual Disk one. Actually the steps doing so are very trivial thanks to Parallels Transporter. Here are the steps:

  1. Boot into the BootCamp Windows partition.
  2. Download the Transporter package.
  3. Install the Transporter package (the installer tells you that the Transporter agent is already installed, but with me I could not connect to the Windows partition until I installed the complete Transporter package!).
  4. Reboot Windows.
  5. Start Transporter on your Mac OS.
  6. Select the Windows partition (I had to use the IP address of the BootCamp Windows).
  7. Wait for a long time (took me about 45 minutes on a MacBook Pro with 3 GB Ram).
  8. Once done shut down the BootCamp Windows.

Now, test that the Virtual Disk works fine within Paralells and all your applications work (My Oracle and ColdFusion installation still worked fine and Oracle is quite tricky on the Hardware part). If you are sure, you can delete the BootCamp partition. But hold on, don’t just start up Disk Tool and delete the Bootcamp partition, use the BootCamp Assistant.

  1. Start the BootCamp Assistant.
  2. Chose to remove the BootCamp partition.

Now, how easy was that to move Windows around and free up a lot of “wasted” disk space?

On a side note, the performance of Windows within BootCamp and Windows as a Virtual Disk is about the same. Actually, I like to have Windows as a Virtual Disk much better, since I can “Frezze” (Pause) Windows and it comes up within a second. Plus it saved me 15GB of space.

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Great new Video Technology for advertisers

by on March 15, 2007 in Uncategorized

I just came across an interesting Video technology from a Company called VideoClix (http://www.videoclix.com/) from Vancouver.

They managed to take any Quicktime movie, put a layer over it to create clickable areas which then displays information on the object you clicked. Sounds strange? Well, head over to their example page and see it for yourself.

I think they have a huge potential in the market and will see where they are heading in the future,

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