Bar Solutions WebLog

On October 27th and 28th the combined OPP (Oracle PL/SQL Programming) and APEXposed conference is coming to Europe. To Brussels to be exact. I have had the privilege to attend these conferences since the first one in 2005. The nice thing about this conference is that it is the only conference (at least that I [...]

At AMIS they are working on teaching a lot of us about the fundamentals of SOA. We just had the first couple of events in which Lucas and Peter taught us stuff about XML and BPEL. To get an idea of what SOA and webservices actually are and how we should work with them.

Jornica tagged me. Thanks for the invitation. Here are a couple of things you may, or may not, know about me.

My nickname was given to me about 13 years ago, by a friend. Patch is shorter than Patrick.
I am married to Dana.
We have 3 kids, Quinty (9), Kayleigh (7) and Mitchell (4).
I [...]

Steven has arrived in The Netherlands. After having his flight from Oslo canceled due to technical problems (did they loose a wing or something like that) he arrived at Schiphol airport around 21:30. About 2 hours later than expected but definitely on time for the events scheduled for tomorrow.
First there is the TOAD User [...]

I was having trouble using Windows Live Writer in combination with my Wordpress blog. When I uploaded a post including pictures I got an error. Searching the web I came across this post which gave me an idea on how to resolve this issue. Unfortunately I was not able to implement the fix myself, [...]