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Disorienting Data Visualizations

Brandon Jones — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:24:41 +0000

Visualizing data has always been valuable, but in the ever growing world of “big data”, it is necessary for visualizations to be both aesthetically pleasing and easy to understand. Today, it is common to see visualizations that -- though they “look good from a distance” -- are entirely too complicat...

Resolving “MySQL Workbench has stopped working” Error Message – Workbench v5.2 Windows Event ID 1026 and 1000

ashok.aggarwal — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:17:26 +0000

Description - I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. - Installed MySQL Workbench 5.2 Issue - Worked fine for a while, but as soon as I start the program now, I get a message box saying “MySQL Workbench has stopped working” Anlaysis I checked Event Viewer and see two logs: Event ID: 1026...

A Strong, Secure, Complex Password That Even I Can Remember!

john.king — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:53:09 +0000

In the wake of the LinkedIn password theft, I would like to offer up a simple process for creating strong and memorable passwords. These would be less susceptible to cracking if a maliciuous group got their hands on a hashed password list, as they would likely be at least in the 1% toughest to crack...

SQL – Nested Selects

ashok.aggarwal — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:09:29 +0000

I like to ask this series of questions in interviews when people say that they “know” Oracle SQL. Granted, none of this exemplifies the hardest parts of SQL, but it’s nice to see how hard someone is thinking when they answer. Question 1: Can you nest a select inside the from clause...

Google Analytics Integration with Oracle ADF 11g

ashok.aggarwal — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:02:58 +0000

There are occasions when we desire to view the usage statistics of our webpage. Some of these metrics might include: active users currently viewing our web site/application user’s web browser user’s operating system pages visited per session average time spent on web site/application per...

Check Point VPN – SSL Network Extender – Windows 7 or Windows 2008 64-bit

ashok.aggarwal — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:33:15 +0000

If you come across an issue where your Check Point VPN SSL Network Extender (SNEX) fails to initiatize (as seen below), try downloading a new version of the Check Point client made to work with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 64-bit. The client you want to download is SNX R71 HFA 1 with support for Windo...

Oracle Identity Management vs. Oracle Identity and Access Management

ashok.aggarwal — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:27:41 +0000

Many of our customers get hung up on the terminology for Oracle’s Identity and Access Management offerings, and perhaps rightfully so. There are more names and acronyms given to these products as there are people implementing them. Following is a quick breakdown of the latest version of both 1...

Edit Environment Variables in Windows – Quick Screenshot Steps

ashok.aggarwal — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:23:25 +0000

I have been asked this question so many times that I thought I might as well post a proper screenshot with all the steps (starting with the “Start” button) for how to get to your system environment variables in Windows. I used Windows 7, but intentionally followed similar steps to those ...