Oracle’s price lists

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list.pdf

and more generally -

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/pricelists.html

I found these on Oracle’s site while catching up on what’s new and exciting at my old company. I seem to remember this being a closely guarded secret, but it seems times are a’ changin…

Of interest is that ‘Named User Plus’ pricing is actually pretty cheap for a lot of the database products. Of course, what you’ll really want is the processor based licenses for production, but NUP seems to be an inexpensive way to get supported software for development. Cool.

Oracle releases SQL Developer Data Modeler

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/datamodeler/index.html

Apparently this dropped on July 1. Not sure how I missed it. And although its a free download, it is not a free product. Licenses are $3000 per seat. Not that many will be paying this price I suspect.

I downloaded the free trial and took ten minutes to play around with it. A good, inexpensive data modeling tool would be a welcome addition to my toolkit. To get a feel for it I tried importing a schema from an open source blogging platform I’m evaluating. The database was mysql so I had to get the MySQL JDBC drivers and install them first. Thankfully, this was as easy as it should be, and from there importing the schema was just a matter of selecting the right menu option and walking through a short wizard.

The schema imported without any errors, but I’m disappointed that there’s no relationship data in my reverse engineered model. This is probably due to the lack of foreign key information in the MySQL schema, but I’m now over my allotted 10 minutes. Overall though it seems like a useful tool that deserved further examination. Another thing to put on my list…

just figured out how james’ tree works.. between the template tag, template, view_object and jquery code. …well, not quite the jquery code yet. started deleting stuff to see how it’d break, and when it did it was kind of obvious – i’d seen something wrong on my initial scan and never revisited it.

added caching to the news page – used django template fragment caching w/file based backend.. super simple, very effective for this demo

learning some new words -
semiotic – of or relating to the study of symbols and codes
gestalt – when the whole is more than sum of parts

spent most of today looking into couchdb – it looks very cool. I need to find a use for it – I don’t think it’ll be that hard.

why is it so hard to generate a table dynamically from a queryset in django? i can’t query the qs for it’s column names?

went to start Coda and found it was corrupted earlier. This had happened a week or so ago and I had restored it with Time Machine. Strange, but now that I think about it it may be related to the fact that my wireless is on the fritz… bit errors (or worse) on my disk and faulty wifi hardware could actually be related.

thingking about stealing this flash gallery – http://www.jimdo.com/tour/.. dunno where they got it from, can’t buy it… started looking into a simple swf decompiler to find metadata but then thought – “why?”

started the day trying to help get the aop stuff in line, but just sent my speaking proposal to wayne for css, and updating my resume with all of my standards, speaking and publication information.. probably need to do some more personal marketing today as well, before getting back into yescrm deep.