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How to extract all pictures from your Flickr account

Patrick Sinke — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:07:32 +0000

I’ve been a Flickr Pro user for many years in a row. Lately, I haven’t been using the site so much. I think Yahoo! has been missing the boat by not making any big improvements to their services and forgetting mobile altogether (their current Flickr app is a sorry excuse for social software). When my [...]

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Installing Guest Additions on Oracle Enterprise Linux

Patrick Sinke — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:54:57 +0000

When installing Oracle Enterprise Linux in VirtualBox, or downloading one of the available images on Oracle Developer Days, it can be tricky installing the Guest Additions. I was struggling with those, until I found a very useful blogpost by R.Wang. This worked like a charm for me! Only thing you might want to check, is the [...]

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“X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication”. Now what?

Patrick Sinke — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:20:21 +0000

[weblogic@server ~]$ xclock X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X connection to localhost:12.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). If you get this annoying message, you probably need to start an X11 application (for instance, for running the OUI or Oracle Universal Installer) from Unix or Linux. And you are here because you don’t [...]

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Creating mockups for iPhone, iPad and Android

Patrick Sinke — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:39:07 +0000

Last week I posted about the new productivity apps in Google Drive. There’s another little gem hidden there. If you’re interested in making mockups or prototype drawings for iOS and Android, go and check out the Cacoo app in Google Drive. There’s a whole section of UI elements for iPhone, iPad and Android devices under [...]

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More productivity apps for Google Drive

Patrick Sinke — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:01:53 +0000

Google just gave you one excellent reason for making more use of their Google Drive (Formerly Known As Google Docs). In fact, this might me a killer feature. When you open Google Drive, and click “Create”, there is a new option “Add new apps”. A popup appears where you can choose a myriad of apps. [...]

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Some tips on deployment of Application Express applications

Patrick Sinke — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:10:13 +0000

I wrote a blog entry on my company’s Blog about deploying Application Express applications. It describes the pitfalls on manual and automatic deployment, and hopefully some useful tips. You can find it here on the Whitehorses blog. If you have any comments or questions, feel free to place a comment and I’ll update the blog.

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fixing column width of password field in Internet Explorer

Patrick Sinke — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:26:01 +0000

A small annoyance, but in Internet Explorer the password field is a bit smaller than a regular textfield, causing them not to line up neatly. Firefox and Safari behave nicely here. I found a simple trick to make them equal size: set the same font on the fields with CSS. The easy way is to [...]

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How to copy users to new workspace in Application Express

Patrick Sinke — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:20:28 +0000

In Application Express, there is no standard way of copying users in an existing workspace to a new workspace. Everytime you create a new workspace, all developers and users must be added manually. Here’s a little script that does the work for you. Just replace the WORKSPACE with the name of your own workspace where [...]

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Adding custom tooltips to Apex with qTip2

Patrick Sinke — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:37:30 +0000

a basic example of what you can do with qTip2 in Oracle Application Express to spice up your UI.

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2 quick Apex tips – LOV’s and Autocomplete

Patrick Sinke — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:50:32 +0000

Here are 2 simple tips for Application Express. Watch the short videos for a hands-on tutorial. 1) creating a Shared LOV from a LOV in an item. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQv9DDcZt4U This is especially useful if you created an item LOV and discover you want to use it in othet places too. 2) Create a dynamic autocomplete field. [...]

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