Archive | January, 2008

Office 2008 on syncing Entourage and cleaning up duplicated events

Entourage 2008 allows you to turn on syncing. With this feature your contacts, calendar events and notes will sync with the same repository used by the System Address Book, iCal, and then iSync, iTunes and .Mac syncing.

The problem with this, very useful feature, is that it does not work correctly and in most of the times generates duplicates of your address book. I mean there are not only copies of your address entries, but there will be a couple of duplicates. Some reported that their address book, consisting of 400 addresses, grew to 30000 entries!

In this case, the best is to disable this functionality for now until the Mac Unit of Microsoft brings us a fix. For those with duplicates you can find a solution right here.

(reposting a post from Cortig.net) Jolly Roger posted a very useful script on microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage. The script finds and deletes duplicated events in the calendar (not discriminating what calendar they are from). The script is written for Entourage in English and you can find it on his site. You can install this script in your Entourage Script folder.

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Configure the JDBC driver for Oracle on ColdFusion 8 Standard Edition

We have had a lot of people asking us if they could use the Oracle database with their ColdFusion Standard Edition. Of course, Adobe would prefer to sell you the Enterprise Edition for using Oracle, but fortunately ColdFusion is based on Java and thus we can use the free and existing Oracle JDBC Driver.

Note: If you do go with the Oracle JDBC “Thin Client” option you will NOT be able to return result sets from stored procedures. So, if you depend upon PL/SQL stored procedures for returning queries, then you will be out of luck without the ColdFusion Enterprise Edition. On the other hand one could also buy the same JDBC drivers as Adobe is using from DataDirect.

Now, before you will be able to use the JDBC Driver you will need to download the appropriate JDBC Oracle Driver. Make sure, that you download the correct driver for the correct version of your database. They are not all the same! Also, download the “ojdbc14.jar” file, since this is for the JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5.

Grab the “ojdbc14.jar” file and copy/move it to “ColdFusion8/wwwroot/WEB-INF/lib”. Once done, you will need to restart the ColdFusion Server.

Go the the ColdFusion Administration and go to your “data sources”. Add a new “data source” and choose “Other” from the Database driver options.

On the following page enter “jdbc:oracle:thin:@10.10.10.11:1521:ORCL” in the “JDBC URL” Textarea. In the “Driver Class” textfield enter “oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver”. Of course, enter your username and password. Once done you should connect to your Oracle database without fail.

Here is a screenshot to visualize the above.

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Does this excite you?

I am sorry, but I can’t help myself to note that the new BMW X6 is just a ugly car. Of course, taste is individual, but I really can’t imagine that this will be a success.

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Oracle acquired BEA Systems

Don’t know what is going on today, but Sun acquires MySQL and now Oracle announced that it finally acquired BEA Systems!

Oracle pays 19,375 Dollar per share this time. Ellison said in the past that 17 Dollar per share would still be too much to pay for BEA Systems.

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