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Daily Archives Thursday, July 2008

7 Useful Links for 2008-07-17

Links to interesting, educational, informational, or just plain fun websites…

Posted 17 July 2008 † Eddie Awad § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Some Thoughts on iPhone Apps

Maybe you missed it, but Apple released a bunch of new iPhone stuff last week. Who knew?
The 7.7 release of iTunes added the App Store, and the 2.0 firmware now allows me to run the first apps on my iPhone, w00t!
Reviews have begun to arrive, and apparently, the most popular price point has risen from [...]

Posted 17 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

WordPress 2.6 upgrade successful, home test server not so good

That wasn’t even painful. There are some cool new features from an authoring perspective too. (Not that I author enough to make good use of some of the new features, but I’m trying to write more often.)
I’ve got another post in the queue, but needed my VMWare Server at home to finish it up. Then [...]

Posted 17 July 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Easier Linking for OTN Forums

Anyone who answers a lot of questions on the Oracle OTN Forums knows that a lot of the answers are just links to Documentation, Blog posts, or other Forum posts.  There are 3 tools that I use on a regular basis to make posting links easier.
Firefox “CoLT” (Copy Link Text) Add-on
CoLT is a great add-on [...]

Posted 17 July 2008 † Tyler Muth § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

jQuery Datepicker and APEX

APEX includes a great datepicker, but it is a popup window and there are a number of newer, better looking options out there.  One of my favorites is from the jQuery UI project (direct link to datepicker section).  If you haven’t worked with jQuery yet, it’s well worth a look as it’s very well documented [...]

Posted 17 July 2008 † Tyler Muth § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °