When Turn 10 offered Forza Motorsport 2, I bought an XBOX360 just to play this game. And I didn’t regret it. During more than two years I played approximately 3.000 games online, most of them in the public lobby system that Forza Motorsport had. I’m not a good racer, but I improved over time. I [...]
InstantOLAP is a lightweight reporting and OLAP system. It’s made for OLAP reports. But if we have a non-aggregating query, we can still list all the rows by using the ROWNUM() function, which helps iterating over the result set. But we’re not able to use a dimension for grouping the rows of the result set.
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I have heard of Google Chrome for the first time on September 1st. A comic strip about Chrome was leaked on the Internet. At that time, there was no software download available. Rumors soon followed about the early availability of a beta version and a Google press conference the next day. This press conference actually [...]
I’m part of a team that builds a data warehouse for our client, an international recognized car and motorcycle manufacturer. Right now, the data comes from various sources, most of it is provided in CSV files. As a first step, these files are loaded into a staging area. It has been decided to accomplish this [...]
While working on an AJAX web application a couple of weeks ago, a co-worker asked me what I know about Wicket. Not much at that time. I knew it was some kind of component based web framework, but only in the sense like everybody knows that Porsche is a German car brand.
During the recent holidays [...]