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Wim has one….

Posted 30 September 2008 † sergio.leunissen § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Facebook Hits the Mainstream

If you read here, you’re probably on the leading, if not bleeding, edge of the early adoption curve. Bit of a mixed metaphor, so let’s say early adopter scythe.
Anyway, Facebook is old news. For about the last year or so, I’ve rarely logged into Facebook; I guess the sheep-throwing and incessant poking and super-poking got [...]

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

Search Through Region Source in Application Express

As I was working to migrate an application and its theme over to Application Express 3.1.2 from 2.1.2 I needed to move some images around and update the references accordingly. I remembered that the Application Builder has a feature…

Posted 30 September 2008 † sergio.leunissen § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Could they at least APOLOGIZE for f#@king up our country?

For years now, people on the left have declared the US economy a “house of cards” built on debt and by transferring wealth from the middle class and poor to the rich. I include myself in this group, as you can verify by reading back through my blog.And…

Posted 30 September 2008 † Steven Feuerstein § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

It’s been busy and $700 billion bail-out

Hi there,
It’s been busy. I couldn’t even made it to OOW this year (even though I was given the approval to attend). I looked at the various draft post that I have had (never did get a chance to finish) over the last 12 months, it has been horrendous. Anyhow, just wanted to put in a couple of points re: $700b bailout asked by the Bush Administration. Wow! $700b! That’s more than the GDP (

Posted 30 September 2008 † Peter K § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Burleson BS 1

If you make use of the blogroll I’ve got at the right of this page, you’ve probably visited Greg Rahn’s blog a few times. If so, you may have noticed that Don Burleson has decided to pitch in and throw some mud around because he feels threatened by Greg’s choice of example in a posting about [...]

Posted 30 September 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Why Stickers are My New Business Card

With the memory of OpenWorld fading, I wanted to riff on one thing I noticed and found interesting last week.
Stickers, or rather the lack of them.
Rich and and I whipped up a last-minute plan to produce some stickers right before OpenWorld, and many of you were the beneficiaries last week. I added the AppsLab sticker [...]

Posted 29 September 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW 2008 Presentations

I noticed via H.Tonguç Yılmaz’s blog that some of the presentation slides have started to appear.

1) Go to http://www28.cplan.com/cc208/login.jsp

2) Username/Password is cboracle/oraclec6 (Updated later - actually, maybe this doesn’t work for unregistered attendees yet)

3) Search for sessions

4) Click link in right hand column where the presentation exists

5) You might be prompted for the same username/password again

Posted 29 September 2008 † Doug Burns § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rodney Update

Thanks to Frits Hoogland, here are some better pictures of the appreciation event.

See, it was me who did all the hard work really! Not really, you can see Marco is standing in another queue, waiting to help.

You can almost imagine this bear’s thoughts. ‘Mmmm, so this is where my future lies, with a drunken bum …. What was your name? Mark? Any chance I could come back to your place instead?’

Posted 29 September 2008 † Doug Burns § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Fleece Update

To those who have been badgering me about this for the best part of a week (they know who they are), it’s time for more information about this year’s Oracle ACE OOW gift.

It’s not right.

First of all, it’s sophisticated black. What was wrong with emergency flare red?

Second, it’s not even a fleece but a Stormtech waterproof! All of the chaps at work will have to revise their fleece jokes and they just won’t sound right any more. In fact, one or two of the cyclists were worryingly interested in it, but there ain’t no Oracle ACEs round there, so they’d have to get busy with a thread unpicker.

Third, have you seen how small that ACE symbol is? How on earth are snipers or stone-throwers supposed to aim at that?

I suppose I’ve only got myself to blame after taking the mickey out of last year’s fleece, but I’m starting to miss it now. I’m not sure the rest of Edinburgh will, though.

Still, this version is much more sober than the version that the true technorati, the ACE Directors, get. If you check out Mogens’ in this blog entry, you’ll see they have a dinky little crown on their ACE Symbol. *That’s* more like it! Much more embarassing!

As usual, I’m only kidding. Justin, Vikki, Emily and all those at OTN know what I’m like and I do appreciate all the organisation they put into everything. The OTN lounge and ACE dinner are two of the better features of OOW (although I hope the latter might be a bit more stand-up-and-mingle in future years).

Oh, and finally, the DUDE was showing disdain for the ACE program to Marco and I prior to the conference because of my red fleece. He’s a black-only guy. We tried to explain to him how cool the fleece that you are sent is so, just for the DUDE …

In your dreams, man!

P.S. My other half *hates* me making that gesture when I’m having my photo taken (that’s what it’s for - to discourage photograhpers) but she wasn’t there, so it was the ideal opportunity.

Posted 29 September 2008 † Doug Burns § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °