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For years I’ve been using a Logitech Squeezebox as my music system. First with the server software (slimserver) running on a Linux Box and later-on on a Synology NAS device.
As Synology stopped supporting the SqueezeboxServer it’s time to move the software into a Docker container. This way I’m able to use everything the way I used to and move the software towards another server (or run it at the Synology box via Docker).
Continue reading “Creating a SqueezeboxServer container”Sometimes you need to use unicode characters in messages / strings you output from PL/SQL code. However sometimes the automatic installation procedures of a customer might use a different or weird character-set when installing your code into the database. What happens is that the character within the source (in a constant for example) becomes mangled and appears as a “character not recognised question mark” in the output.
Continue reading “Using unicode characters in PL/SQL”Sometimes you have the need to quickly spin up an Oracle Apex install to test something out or to just have a “clean” instance. Luckily this is quite easily done with Docker.
Continue reading “Quickstart Apex with docker-compose”For a lot of things I’m using docker and docker-compose. With one of my docker hosts I noticed something odd. Sometimes it took a while to fire up docker-compose. I could see the command was being executed by the shell but I had to wait (sometimes up to a minute) before docker-compose seemed to “react”. This kept me quite puzzled.
Continue reading “Solve a “hanging” docker-compose”Submitting a concurrent program via selfservice can be quite cumbersome for users. It’s possible to make their day a bit better by shortening the submission procedure…..
Continue reading “Quick submission of concurrent program in selfservice”When you want to copy developed (functional) items from one instance to another, for example from the acceptance environment to production, FNDLOAD is a great tool to use. Everything is copied in an instant and you’re quite sure that it is exactly as the set-up you had in the other environment.
Continue reading “Using FNDLOAD from within Ebs”For the customer i had to create a solution which generated PDF files out of the data of the appraisal (HR) module. These files need to be imported into another system so another requirement was the fact that meta-data has to be provided. The meta-data needs to be provided as a flat text-file.
Continue reading “Creating text files with bursting”Sometimes there are certain actions that need to be performed before an XML report is produced. Or certain actions have to be performed after an XML report has run (updating values in a table, kicking off the bursting engine, etc).
Continue reading “Using triggers with XML Publisher”When you look closely at the page where you can upload you’re data templates and bursting control files you’ll notice an odd thing…… There’s no delete button.
Continue reading “Remove bursting control files”