The institute of higher learning that I work with has a fleet of vehicles. We haven’t got yet I suppose a Global Positioning System (GPS) to track all the vehicles. When we have trips we sign a paper to log the time start and end and also the distance traveled as recorded in the vehicles […]

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1, dubbed as Gran Paradiso is out already; not as an official release though. This beta release is intended for testers who would like to try out the new Firefox browser. Beta testers give feed back to the developers of any bugs for corrections prior to final release. I have downloaded the […]

Running a small business does not allow one to hire a full time person to handle computer data. This is where most small business get into trouble. People take for granted the value of the data they work in until they are smacked dead when their computer goes dead. A solution for such scenario would […]

Google is one of those companies that never tires in innovating. Lately, I received a notification that Google have added a new feature to their chatting software gtalk. Gtalk allows one to chat with somebody on their mails contact list. The newly announced feature is Group Chat; which will allow one to chat with multiple […]

Computer business is the main thing why I got hooked up with computers. I was a student then and I could remember being lured into computers as our family runs a computer center. It’s not a big one but one that stores like 15 to 20 desktop computers. There are six employees doing shifts daily […]

Sometime browsing the net is kind of a monotonous task. To pep up my browsing during the wee hours of the morning, a little of music on the background will help. I tried to experiment with the Firefox browser add-on for playing music called FoxyTunes. It’s very versatile for a small media player browser plug-in. […]

Holiday is just around the corner and there are things people would like to buy. Computer geeks are not excluded to this kind of craze. I for one have been thinking of getting some computer stuff to pep up my old time arsenals. The list would maybe start with upgrading the web hosting into more […]

Installing HP Laser Jet 1200 Series PCL is very tricky. One needs a CD with the driver and printer programs to use it. How about if the printer’s CD installer is not available? One way to install a remote HP Laser Jet 1200 Series PCL printer without installation CD is to create a local printer […]

People get short of cash every now and then. Some things come up out of the blue; emergency expense as we call it. When this happens, one could easily avail of payday loans. I remember before in our small computer business we also fall short of cash. The flow of the money is not just […]

I have uninstalled Oracle Database Release 10.2.0.1 using the Oracle Universal installer but have noticed that after restarting the computer there is still one service listed OracleDBConsoleorcl. I checked the service properties and found it to be residing in c:\oracle folder. I deleted the oracle folder where the executable file reside and restarted the machine. […]

Oracle Application Express Post-installation task: Restart Processes(ex. listener, etc.. ) Choose the HTTP Server Configuring the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway run apex_epg_config.sql passing the file system path to the base directory where Application Express was unzipped. if apex_3.0.zip was unzip in C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\ ex. @apex_epg_config C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1; Unlock the ANONYMOUS account ALTER USER ANONYMOUS ACCOUNT UNLOCK; Verify Oracle […]

Just as a preliminary, to work around the access to “apex_admin” you can perform the following steps: (1) Go to you ApEx installation folder (where apexins.sql is located. (2) log into sqlplus as sys (3) ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA = FLOWS_030000 (4) @builder/f4050 *note, I also ran @builder/f4550 and @builder/f4700 by accident and these were […]

Steps in installing Oracle Application Express: Download apex_3.0.zip file Unzip apex_3.0.zip Copy extracted directory “apex” to $ORACLE_HOME\ ex. $ORACLE_HOMEC:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\  Change working directory to apex ex. cd C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\apex start sqlplus and connect as SYS ex. sqlplus sys/ as sysdba run apexins.sql with the following five arguments - password - password of the Application Express Administrator (ex. […]

Having a laptop is useful. I can go places with it and do some web development; I can also use it in class trainings. It’s very handy and the features are the same as desktop computer. One moment during the training class I have with some Mongolian folks, I need to show a video clip […]

Outlined below are the possible topics for Oracle Application Express Developer’s Guide Session: Creating Reports Generating Reports Using Wizards Editing Report Attributes Adding Links in Reports Saving or Printing Reports in Different Formats Creating Forms Creating a Form on a Table With a Report Creating a Tabular Form Creating a Master-Detail Form Editing Form Attributes […]

Oracle Application Express can be installed in different operating system platforms. Outlined here are the installation requirements in Windows XP environment. Topics: Oracle Database Requirement Browser Requirement HTTP Server Requirements Disk Space Requirement Oracle XML DB Requirement Oracle Text Requirement PL/SQL Web Toolkit Oracle Database Requirement Oracle database release 9.2 or higher is the required […]

Oracle Application Express an introduction to aspiring application developers. Topics: Oracle Application Express a Synopsis Architecture of Oracle Application Express About Application Express Environment User Roles in Application Express Oracle Application Express a Synopsis Oracle Application Express is a free web application development tool for Oracle database. Just by using a web browser and armed with a […]

The old photo frames or photo albums are becoming a thing of the past. Photos are one of the most treasured things we have at home and we keep tons of it. But we do seldom have the time to open it up and look at them. We only have the time to open them […]

In many growing companies or businesses communication and collaboration are difficult areas to respond. This is especially when the offices spans different geographical location. For example satellite centers of higher education spread throughout multiple locations definitely will have some collaboration barriers. There are problems like the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with various regional […]

People are going crazy about PageRank. It seems that it’s everything, maybe for those living based on it. Google’s latest PageRank update really did hit a lot of people. Most sites that have links or ad links we’re hit by PageRank penalty. My site was not spared, before I have PR5 but now it’s down […]