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Daily Archives Wednesday, July 2008

Light the App Bar or Not?

So, I promised to blog Rich’s UI mockups for the OpenSocial UI changes we’re planning, and even though posts about what we actually do here at the ‘Lab get way less traffic and comments than fun posts about which O/S would win in a fight, I’m keeping that promise.
Rich has made a lot of progress. [...]

Posted 30 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Synthesis

This summer Idaho has had the loveliest profusion of wildflowers I’ve ever seen, the product of a healthy snow pack, full reservoirs and a late spring. Happily enough, many wildflowers have seeded themselves in my rock garden, which is far…

Posted 30 July 2008 † mary.ann.davidson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Resource Manager Enhancements in 11g…

I’ve just put another Oracle 11g new features article live:

Resource Manager Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1

Cheers
Tim…

Posted 30 July 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Instead of adding a comment to Jake’s post on his Ubuntu experience to-date, I thought I’d just blog my perspective.
Here’s my backstory with Apple, MSFT, Linux, and others:

Mid to late 80s: Timex Sinclair 1000… loved writing programs on cassette tapes!  How many of you Web 2.0 kiddies can say that?
Early to mid 90s: had an [...]

Posted 30 July 2008 † Rich Manalang § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

My Dell laptop lives again…

I’ve been having a little trouble with my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop. Every few minutes the screen would go really dim, like it was in power save mode. Switching it to standby and back or remote desktoping to it would kick it back into gear, but that’s not exactly helpful.
Yesterday I rang Dell to see [...]

Posted 30 July 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

!$title$! É um bug

Or at least that’s what Google Translate says “it’s a bug” means in Portuguese.
So, maybe you noticed recently that this blog and others produced a feed item or a couple called “!$title$!”. I believe this is a bug associated with WordPress 2.6 because the timing coincided with our upgrade to 2.6.
Plus, several blogs whose feeds [...]

Posted 30 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °