Apr 14 2009

Oracle Application Server extract Database Password

Navigate the following by starting at OracleContextn and working you way down to PORTAL you will get the password to the Oracle Database used by the portal. Using Oracle SQL-developer you can used the JDBC connection string to connect and view the database.

OrclResourceName=PORTAL,orclReferenceName=YourDomain.YourDatabase,cn=IAS Infrastructure Databases,cn=IAS,cn=Products,cn=OracleContext

ldapsearch -h -p -D “cn=orcladmin” -w -b “cn=IAS Infrastructure Database,cn=IAS,cn=Products,cn=OracleContext” -s sub “orclresourcename=PORTAL”  rclpasswordattribute


Apr 13 2009

Ip Geo Location free

I stumbled upon http://www.hostip.info/dl/index.html…it has a free API or you can download the entire database as a sql script. Very nice if you plan to do Geo targeting. It can even go down to a city level on certain ip’s.


Apr 13 2009

Asp.Net finaly gets charting

As i was catching up on Scotts Gu’s blog. i came across this posting http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx about the new charting control in asp.net. And i thought to myself….finally. With ASP.net mvc going 1.0 and Silverlight3.0 beta announced this probably got very little attention.

download here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EE8F6F35-B087-4324-9DBA-6DD5E844FD9F&displaylang=en


Apr 9 2009

2009 internet advertising competition award – berkleevalencia.org

Award: http://www.iacaward.org/iac/winner.asp?eid=6258

Website: http://www.berkleevalencia.org

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