I’ve wanted to have a local and always running database to play with for a while and though cloud databases are interesting and appealing for a variety of reasons, my already documented love of the Raspberry Pi led to the […]
Why Install Oracle 21c on OL8 via RPM?
Far too often in home lab situations, where there’s some interesting idea to be explored, efforts get derailed as a result of sinking too much time into the environment setup particularly when something like Oracle Database is involved. Maybe the […]
Using Hubot with Slack
Slack is the latest hip tool that technology teams have come to depend on. Based on an idea eerily similar to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) that was extremely popular back in the mid-nineties, Slack allows teams to collaborate in web […]
Solving Problems with Chatbots
Employee engagement is a big issue for any company, put simply disengaged employees leads to departing talent, so it’s vital to constantly be looking for ways to develop teams, especially those working with technology, in ways that result in high […]
SQL Developer – IO Error: Got minus one from a read call
The IO Error: Got minus one from a read call error is caused by the SQLNET.ora file on the database server being configured to only allow connections from certain computers on the network (as identified by their IP addresses).