Catherine: pyOraGeek

When I present at a meeting, I like to use plenty of live demos. I can get away with this, because I type very, very well. (I did get into...

I decided that I should make myself a list of questions I've never been able to resolve, or that were very difficult to research, becaus...

Hooray! - to the Dayton .NET Developers Group for putting together the Code Camp on Jan. 21, 2006 - a whole day of community-provided semin...

My article on LibraryLookup has been published in the October 2005 issue of Technology First , a tech newsletter for the Dayton area. (I...

Why do almost all contracts and job postings specify exactly the software that they want you to use (or to have used)? When they want to in...

Q. How do Dayton-area users of Oracle stay in touch with one another and find out what's going on in their community? A. They don't....

Naturally, after getting Oracle working, my next move was to get it Python-powered by installing cx_Oracle . Installation seemed to go OK, ...

I love my new Ubuntu Linux (version 5.10). I love how easy it was to install, how it picked right up on my wireless card. Oracle doesn...

For my upcoming Oracle - Python talks at OOUG and (maybe) COLLABORATE 06 , I want to write a nice Python script in realtime, before the ver...

I had a great time at Ohio LinuxFest . Highlights, in my book, were Jorge Castro 's Ubuntu talk. He pointed us to a lot of great stuff...

I just submitted a proposal for a technical session ("Python and Oracle: Coding that Cooks") at COLLABORATE 06 , the IOUG's co...

A Python script, for your use and suggestions. Sorry, I know this is awfully long for a blog post - I have to figure out a better place to p...

Do not smash your head against a problem for consecutive hours. Instead: Ask for help. It doesn't matter whether you ever send the req...

I've been invited to present at the Oct. 27 Ohio Oracle User Group meeting in Columbus. Hooray! After I've practiced at a local g...

I'm now using sqlite to support an Oracle production database. I love it! When I first went to download sqlite, I went away frustrated...

The problem with my XML-generating views is that they break down for rows whose XML is longer than 4000 characters. Meanwhile, the troubles...

My coworker and I want to query some nice, simple XML from my Oracle table. For example, from the table CREATE TABLE pet (name VARCHAR2(22)...

Click me! I've written up an aggregator script (Python, of course) that browses an assortment of event announcement webpages and parses ...

IOUG posted my article, Python for Oracle Geeks , and referenced it in their 7/20/2005 "5 MINUTE BRIEFING: Oracle" e-mail . Ah, ...