Oracle Certified Professional, At Last

Just passed my Oracle Admin II exam.  That was the last of my exams and I’m now officially an Oracle Certified Professional. The best part is tonight I don’t have anything to study for the first time in over two years.

Summer 2009 DOUG Newsletter

The Summer 2009 DOUG Newsletter is now up and online at http://www.fiocci.com/newsletter/summer2009/summer2009.html. This edition, we have the results from the 2009 DOUG member survey, Tony Reed’s motivational presentation on the Achievement Equation, Emmanuel...

Amazing Live Performance by K.T. Tunstall

This is the live spot on Later with Jools Holland that launched her career. It’s amazing to watch such a diminutive person deliver such a powerful performance. When she takes the stage, you expect her to do a folk song but the song builds upon itself throughout...

Evolution of the Fiocci Site

Fiocci actually started out back in 1998 as Desolation Angels.  It was initially developed in NetObjects Fusion 3.0 at a time when I was just getting my fingers wet with HTML.  Below are a few screen shots from that early endeavor. I had taken the title from a Jack...

OCP Kickoff Meeting – Monday, April 27th

We will hold our first OCP kick-off study group meeting on Monday, April 27th between 6pm and 8pm. This study group is for those people pursuing their Oracle Certified Professional designation and is focused on taking the 10g Administration II exam. For this first...

Notes from the DBA Consortium Aftermeeting

Held at the Marriott on November 21, 2008 Attendees: Emmanuel Delpierre Jose Boban Ricky Burke Jim Blood Jeff Sun Chris Frost Zdima (sp?) Background Emmanuel and Ricky started discussing this idea back in 2001, but it had always been on the back burner. Then, Jose...

GCF Presentation in Dallas

Attached is the presentation that I gave at SETA Dallas this past week. It deals with the Generic Connector Framework and touches on both the External Authentication Service and older CPIP Connector. We are currently running Luminis IV.0.1.17 and have hooked Luminis...