Happy Halloween!!!!!!

Remember that the Walking Dead premieres on AMC tonight. We’re finally going to have a zombie mini series! I’m so hoping that it runs over christmas.

Also Ghost Hunters is doing their annual live show. Sadly i learned that the Ghost Adventures crew isn’t doing a live show this year

Whatever you’re doing… enjoy the day!!!! Have fun, get scaried, get candy and if anyone went to Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights this year; please leave links to your blog with some pictures. I didn’t get a chance to go this year because of work, but last year was amazing and would LOVE to see what they did for this one.

And now a blast from the past!

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Art work from Joan Stark

Connecting Railo Express to Oracle XE

Follow the instructions to installing Oracle XE and configure a database user.

1) Copy ojdbc14.jar from “C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\jdbc\lib” to “C:\railo\lib”

NOTE: for some reason with the jetty version, you need to place the driver in:

<railo-dir>/lib/ext/railo-server/context/lib

2) Start Railo Express

3) Go into Server Administrator and choose to create a new datasource

4) When configuring the database, use the following:

Driver: Other – JDBC Driver
Class: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
DSN: jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:XE