Archive for April, 2005

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Accessing and Oracle Server behind firewall

Wow this was far too difficult. Here is the situation: I have Oracle 9i installed on a Windows 2003 Virtual Machine running on Virtual PC with a host machine with 784 M Ram and a 1.4Ghz Ahtlon processor. The whole thing is hosted by adelphi.com and is behind a router/firewall combo.
Keeping in mind I always [...]

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New Classes and more work

The next couple of months are sure to be interesting. I am teaching CIS 405 at DeVry University in Phoenix this term, which is a class which can go a couple of ways. In some ways the book leads you towards a class dedicated to Oracle, Oracle forms etc. The curriculum guide provides a different [...]

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DeVry Students getting more jobs!

Most people know that the company I work for currently employs 6 DeVry graduates and has employed more than 20 over the past 5 years. Most have left for better and brighter things and very few have left under poor circumstances. But Business Integration Group can’t employ everyone who is a capable programmer from DeVry.
Today [...]

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Building our application

Well I really mean a build of the application I current work on. This is to say I am not talking about the actual construction of the application, but the putting together of the bits.
As it stands right now I have developed the process to deliver 4.0.0.??? to the client. This number and package will [...]

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Google videos (uploading my videos)

I signed up for the video hosting by google. So far it is pretty much the same interface and standards that I have come to expect from google. Behind the scenes they are currently doing some verification processes, but I am sure the video will be approved and out soon.
I haven’t found yet how to [...]

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OneNote 6 month trial offer

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/offers/details.aspx?displaylang=en&OfferId=8E946D82-596F-42BB-AC7A-3546C8F814AA
It is worth it. I have used OneNote for about a year now. It is a great tool. I still use it for note taking although I am no longer a student I did use it through my MBA.

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Huber Audio Blog is finished (almost)

Well it is finally up at http://www.kristinhuber.com. The idea came to me last Friday night or Saturday morning. I presented the idea during a class and somehow everyone thought it was a good idea. Later that day I had the recorder written and I was working on the FTP side of things. The idea is [...]

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Recent Reassurance

Sometimes it is just nice to be reassured that everything is going well. We have found a new doctor after this and this.
He asked for another ultrasound and we went in. Baby is doing well and you can see some pics by visiting http://www.carolhuber.net
This is public information, so those of you that know me in [...]

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ATOM vs. RSS, RSS vs. ATOM

Recently I had a question posted:
Comment by kevinthespears.com Do you know what the differences between atom and rss 2 are? I did a couple of quick searches but only really found a couple of sites saying that basically Google is the only thing keeping atom going. I couldn’t find anything to show why one was [...]

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What is a Blog? Students and Educators

Here is a article I am working on for the DeVry newspaper:
What is a blog?
A Web Log is a blog. Really it is that simple? What makes a blog different from a normal web page or discussion group?
1. A blog normally has only one author and many people can comment.2. A blog is updated rather often, sometimes [...]

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Installing Mappoint 2004 on Windows XP

This might seem a little dated, but I regularly reinstall my laptop and I end up reinstalling Mappoint along the way.
Back with Mappoint 2002 there wasn’t a problem. 2004 came a long and I cannot search addresses without an error. I enter any address and press search and Mappoint closes with a fatal exception. I [...]