Dec 2, 2022Easily retrieve big files from Oracle Cloud Object StorageThis must seem a familiar scenario for us engineers. You have big files stored in Object Storage — in this case Oracle Cloud Object Storage — and you need to have them on your Linux Server. …Object Storage3 min readObject Storage3 min read
May 15, 2020Oracle Cloud (OCI), Oracle Autonomous Linux, Ansible and Cloud-Init Mash UpOps Server Setup Recently I needed to deploy a new server in my Oracle Cloud OPS environment to run some daily scripts. Off course, by now I run everything under the “Infrastructure-as-a-Code” principle. So, having setup my Ansible Playbook, using Oracle Ansible Modules, the server deployment is child's play. I am using Oracle…Ansible3 min readAnsible3 min read
Apr 20, 2020Setting up Wekan with Docker, OAuth2 and Oracle Identity Cloud ServiceWekan Wekan is an open-source kanban board which allows a card-based task and to-do management. It is an ideal solution if you cannot make use of Cloud based solutions like Trello due to, for example, corporate information security or data locality policies. In those kinds of situations you might want to…Wekan9 min readWekan9 min read
Mar 25, 2020Building and running Oracle Database 19.3.0 EE Docker ContainersThis article is based on an older post written by Gerard Venzl, maintainer of the Oracle Database Docker build files. Original post dates from Nov 2017 and can be found here. Also the the documentation provided on Github is a good reference. I decided to replace one of my Oracle…Oracle Database8 min readOracle Database8 min read
Mar 23, 2020JavaFX error with Oracle SQL Developer on Mac OS?Update November 12th th 2021: tested with MacOSX Catalina 10.15.7 and Oracle SQL Developer 21.2 Update February 8th 2021: tested with MacOSX Catalina 10.15.7 and Oracle SQL Developer 20.4. Update November 6th 2020: tested with MacOSX Catalina 10.15.7 and Oracle SQL Developer 20.2. Recognise this error? I have had this error quite a…Sql Developer3 min readSql Developer3 min read
Mar 16, 2020Web Scraping in a corporate environment — has my page fully loaded?What did we solve in my last post? Now in my previous post you could read how to get data from a page generated by Oracle Business Intelligence 12 Enterprise Edition (EE). Behind the scenes, when calling the bookmarked URL, a lot of things happen. In fact, depending on the size of your companies dataset and/or the load…Python4 min readPython4 min read
Mar 11, 2020Web Scraping in a corporate environment — The ScraperProject — The Scraper I decided to to bundle my efforts, at least the tangible code part, under the code name The Scraper. Working for an engineering company, I have this natural urge to automate & engineer my own work processes. Let’s talk about my project. Basically I have a web based reporting system…Web Scraping4 min readWeb Scraping4 min read
