I've created two webpages

It's snowy and cold here in Salt Lake City, but since my last posting (which was also my first posting), I have been busy.  I took a day off for the New Years holiday and another day to go skiing.  There are four ski areas less than a half hour from my house, and I figure that if I am going to live someplace where I have to shovel snow and wait for the bus in the freezing cold, then I may as well get some benefit out of it.

But, I digress...

During the past week, I created two webpages to help you along with developing reports in BI Publisher.  Both of them are specific to layout templates.  Later on, I will have a lot of content for you on the subject of Data Templates.  I have been doing a lot of work on that topic, and I hope to be doing a couple of presentations on it within the next couple of months.  I even submitted a presentation on Data Templates for consideration by OAUG at Collaborate 2008 in Denver in April, but as yet I haven't heard back from them.

I am using free webspace provided by Tripod for my pages.  I'm not sure how I like it because it  plasters the top and bottom of the page with banner ads and spawns a few annoying pop-ups along the way.  Please don't let that deter you.  The ads keep the content free for you and me.  Of course, Tripod is hoping that I'll get tired of the ads, and switch to their pay hosting service.

 

Without further ado, here are the two new pages with links:

MATH IN A LAYOUT TEMPLATE, Posted Jan 2, 2008

AUTOFORMAT FOR MS WORD TABLES, Posted Jan 8, 2008

 

¡Hasta luego! 

 

 

First Posting

Well, it's the last day of 2007, and finally I've decided to do something that I've thought about doing for a while: take my miscellaneous accumulated knowledge and experimentation with Oracle technology and share it with others who have similar interests.

Some people might think that I have had too much time off during the holidays this year because I spent the past two weeks writing some lessons on BI Publisher templates decided that my work needed an outlet.  I also took inspiration from some other independent blogs on similar topics that I have discovered in the past month, notably BIPgirl (dedicated to all things BI Publisher) and Gareth Roberts (who blogs on Oracle Applications).  Of course, there's also Tim Dexter's blog -- he's got the the best information because he's an insider.

In this space, I hope to share some of the things I have learned about Oracle development.  I have particular knowledge with Oracle Workflow (which I recognize is a dying application), and am feverishly coming up to speed with BI Publisher.  in the past couple of years, I have presented at Oracle Open World, IOUG, and OAUG with a couple of different Workflow topics, and at our local users group (Utah Oracle Users' Group) on both Workflow and (what was then called) XML Publisher. 

I hope to be able to post a new topic at a minimum of once per week.  So, I'll cross my fingers and hope for the best...

 

Happy New Year!