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Speed, Innovation, and Flexibility in the Ring

First Steps by Neal Whitten

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Less-experienced project managers sometimes struggle with how to be an effective leader. Here’s a starter list to get you up to speed quickly and avoid some common pitfalls. Seasoned project managers may also want to review the list as a refresher.

Nice list Neal

Oracle Webcenter 11g Install in VMWare Player

Hello, I've just installed Oracle Webcenter in VMWare for getting to know the product.

Below is a brief transcription of the process because I couldn't find one on the net.
- Downloand and install VMWare player as described here.
- Download Unbreakable Linux from Oracle.
- Create a new empty virtual machine for Oracle Linux. Give it enough memory (at least 3GB) and diskspace (40GB)
- Add as much virtual CD/DVD as needed for the installation and let them boot.
- Start the new VM and Oracle Linux is installed like in a "normal" install process.
- When Linux is running, install the VMWare Tools. They are handy to size the width and height of the screen fe.
- Add the public yum server for missing packages and updates.
- Follow the procedure as described here(Thanks Mr Maggessy!)
- When Webcenter doesn't start after install, install the latest patch of the Webcenter Suite from Oracle. This is the upgrade and a mandatory install if you are using weblogic 10.3.3. If you are using weblogic 10.3.2 than this step is not needed. (Thanks Mr Ongena for the tip)

Foresee minimum 6 hours to do all this from scratch and count on a download of at least 3GB in total.

Enjoy Webcenter!


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Delete dead links from Delicious

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I have a lot of links saved at Delicious and I was wondering how many of those are still valid links.
I didn't feel like checking every link out one by one. (I had 950 links!)
Since Delicious doesn't provide a way to do this automatic, I decided to write something myself with the use of the Delicious API.
I made a drawing of the procedure I followed.

I have a Linux machine, so fetching all my links in an XML file was easy using Curl. That was step 1.
Step 2 was building a PHP/JQuery page to load the XML file and launch every link to see if the link is still valid.
Step 2.5 is checking the links that my PHP script returned as invalid.
Step 3 is deleting them.
For now I will describe step 1.
  1. start a Terminal on Linux
  2. go to the directory where you want to store the PHP scripts and enter this command: curl -v https://username:password@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > del.xml
  3. That's it!
Replace username:password combination in bullit number 2 with your Delicious credentials.
The result will be stored in the file del.xml

The next blog item will discuss step 2.
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