SwitchBL8’s gebazel

I’ve installed the BPEL Process Manager into my local AS (10g R2). The installation is rather straightforward, with the exception of one thing. Why for the love of {some divine being} do I need to run several SQL scripts before I can do the installation? The installation is quite sophisticated, and it even checks whether your did run the SQL scripts. If the installer detects when they were not run, why not present the option to run them now? How difficult can that be?
Of course, large companies have seperate DBA’s, but if I’m going to install the BPELPM into my AS (absolutely no pun intended), and I have several passwords of privileged users (you have to specify them when you run the scripts), why not ask for them in the “real” installation. No, we always have a “Pre Installation Tasks” section in our Installation Guide, so we cannot leave that blank. That’s the ONLY reason I can think of. And yes, I did my share of DBA work, know how to install and maintain the AS, and now want to play around with BPEL.

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OUI script writers SUCK.
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PSPad is a very good freeware text-editor, useful as a notepad replacement. It also integrates with the shell, so you can right-click on a file and specify to open it with PSPad.
What annoyed me is that the installation does not create the proper registry entries. The documentation says the keys will be created at the first startup of the program, but that is not the case.
So, do a regedit yourself and add: HKCUSoftwarePSPadPSPadPath yourself and have it point to the directory where you installed PSPad.

Finally Trolltech has made Qt available to a non C++ platform. Jambi is their Qt product especially for the Java environment. At the moment it’s still a technology preview, so not production ready yet, but knowing Qt that moment will not be far away. Their goal with the Qt products, including Jambi, is to create high-performance yet cross-platform components. Since Jambi is practically identical to the original Qt product, developer switching from C++ to Java will have no trouble using the new product.
The documentation is still far from complete, but because of the almost identical structure, Trolltech expects that the C++ documentation will be enough for most developer for now.
Here are some examples of Qt Jambi in use, and do take a look at the demo’s.

Qt Jambi requires Java 5 (both SE and EE are supported).

When you get the following error message when starting JDeveloper 10.1.3:

The ordinal 3724 could not be located in the dynamic link library LIBEAY32.dll.

Then you probably downloaded and installed the Versioning Support Extension, without actually having support for a version-control system. In Tools->Preferences->Extensions clear the checkmark before “Versioning support” and restart JDeveloper when asked to.

Did you ever had that annoying Windows message “Cannot delete file: It is being used by another person or program” while you know you are the only one using your PC and you’ve closed all programs that might use the file you are trying to delete?
Unlocker solves that problem. Unlocker integrates into the Explorer, so you can right-click on the file or folder being locked and take appropriate actions: kill the process actually locking the file/folder or just remove the lock.