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    Holiday post

    Went to a friends birthday party on 21st in Shrewsbury. Had a nice time there and drank some wicked punch. We sat and heard the fire works from the end of the flower show.On the Sunday we went up to Lauder (Scotland). We arrived there in the afternoo

    Comments (0) . Monday, 30 August 2004

    Calling Oracle Workflow functions from Notifications

    This is a bit annoying (but see breaking news at the end):You can create a function that will be called when you leave a notification, it says quite specifically in the manual that if you do this it will be called twice; once in RESPONSE mode and onc

    Comments (0) . Friday, 13 August 2004

    Cops arrest you for farting too loudly?

    Quoting from this site:Acpo vice president Chief Constable Denis O'Connor welcomed the consultation on the power to take fingerprints by the roadside and take footwear impressions without consent. But he sounded a "note of caution" on plans

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 12 August 2004

    Feeling depressed? Try here.

    Quoting from this site:In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the java.

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 10 August 2004

    What distance?

    Imagine a world where everyone is the victim of an illusion. Where the apparent separation of subject and object, of self and other, is simply not real. Instead, everyone clings to the illusion because of fear and ignorance, which is in turn masked b

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 10 August 2004

    Diary entry

    It's nearly midnight and I'm a little wired, to be honest. Just discovered that one of Rosie's friends has cancer. I didn't know what to say but did my best to show some loving kindness. Ultimately that's all you can do. Struggling with motivation at

    Comments (1) . Friday, 6 August 2004

    Oracle workflow 2.6 installation hassle

    Joy!When you invoke the workflow configuration assistant as supplied with 2.6 you get:Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: WfFrame        at WorkflowCA.main(Compiled Code)Good, innit? You can also run the assist

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 4 August 2004

    Activity Diagrams in JDeveloper

    I suppose beggars can't be choosers but in Rational Rose and all of the books the swim lanes go down the page, not across, which means that you can get a lot more on a page. Makes me think that they cribbed the tool from Designer, which did swim lane

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 4 August 2004

    Back in harness with Oracle Workflow

    We used workflow to manage creating documents and wanted to be able to create management reports on top of it. I remember having to create some horrible views to allow you to work out where you were in the workflow and what step was next so you could

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 3 August 2004