"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party."

Presumably every (good) student of informatics has learned to know the above phrase as filler text or as exercise on handling multiple editors, fonts etc. just like Cicero's famous Lorem ipsum - nothing more than a typing drill described by Wikipedia.org here -> Filler Text.The real meaning goes back to the American Revolutionary Period, when Patrick Henry stirred the seeds of discord with his famous Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death speech to the Virginia Assembly in 1775. It is quoted her to explain my long break in writing about databases and programming. Far from Henry's fervent ...

Watch Starwars with Docker

ASCII Version of Starwars

Found in "Orchestrating Docker" by Shrikrishna Holla   - I love this book. Here is the code.

Train Data Guard with Docker 1.10.1 and Docker Compose 1.6.0

Important tech news brought us to  change our Docker Data Guard Project. Please see my posts Start Oracle Data Guard Training with Docker and Docker managed via upstart, too.  The actual Docker release is stable. NOTE: the daemon used to be started with "/usr/bin/docker -d". From now on you start it - manually - like that

root@Thinkpad4:~# docker daemon > docker.session 2>&1 &
[1] 2422
root@Thinkpad4:~# ps -ef | grep docker  | grep -v grep
root      2422 10277  8 14:52 pts/8    00:04:40 docker daemon

Google donates 25.000 laptops to refugees in Germany

Changing the world through the power of technology and collaboration - this  is the way which I admire and support - see Net Hope. One recent project is called Project Reconnect. By now, the description is only in German, an English version does not seem to be available, so translate it with your browser or alike programs.

I am a German IT Consultant and appreciate very, very much what NetHope and Google do for my country. I repeat: they do it for my country. Important German organizations - governamental, technical, social, educational  - have already joined in - see Presentation in Berlin .