I’ve met people before who’d rather drink muriatic acid than admit a mistake. I don’t cotton to such folks none too purdy good. This is a post about perfection and imperfection.
Cost Based Optimizer
There is no such thing as a perfect cost-based optimizer (CBO) and the expectations placed on cost-based optimizers run rampant. If the [...]
For a few months now, I’ve been planning to write a post on how to get involved in your local tech scene.
I caught a tweet from Matt earlier today. He was on his way to Startup Rockstars DC#3.
Sounds like fun. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen me tweet about any number of [...]
In the last five years I’ve visited more than thirty different countries and seen a lot of wonderful sights - some natural,some man-made. But Sunday was the first time I’ve walked into a hotel room and been overwhelmed by the view.
I was in Athens, staying at the Hilton, in a room facing the Acropolis - [...]
For those of you who know me, you know that I like to keep an air of professionalism both in my work and in my online communications. However, this was just too good to pass up…The Register has given us the best double entendre I’ve ever seen in an Oracle related article:
Actual Headline: [...]
I’m not sure why it has taken this long, but I recently started getting about one email per week that was intended for a well-named member of the UK’s Parliament: Dan Norris. After communicating with Mr. Norris’ office, I found that we both found one another via Google Alerts that we’ve apparently both set up [...]
Links to interesting, educational, informational, or just plain fun websites…
Today I started with a visit to Darling Harbour.
From 2008_Sydney
I’m a sucker for aquariums, so I ended up at the aquarium. It’s a bit bigger than AQWA in Perth, but the main difference was that the seals were swimming.
From 2008_Sydney
Next I walked across the bridge.
From 2008_Sydney
That’s not me. I didn’t walk over the [...]
I’m currently having a bit of fun hunting around the JDev 11g production release for features that weren’t in the earlier TP releases. Today I stumbled across the af:noteWindow tag within ADF Faces RC.
The af:noteWindow tag displays a speech bubble popup similar to the tooltips on other components. The following screenshot shows the af:noteWindow displayed via a mouseOver af:showPopupBehavior tag:
The following code demonstrates how I achieved the above:
<af:panelGroupLayout layout=”horizontal”>
Contact
<af:spacer width=”10″ height=”10″/>
<af:commandLink text=”SAGE Computing Services”>
<af:showPopupBehavior
popupId=”sagePopup”
triggerType=”mouseOver”/>
</af:commandLink>
<af:spacer width=”10″ height=”10″/>
for more information.
</af:panelGroupLayout>
</af:panelGroupLayout>
<af:popup id=”sagePopup”>
<af:noteWindow>
<af:panelGroupLayout layout=”vertical”>
<af:image source=”/sageWeb2.0LogoSmall.gif”/>
<af:group>Contact enquiries@sagecomputing.com.au.
</af:group>
</af:panelGroupLayout>
</af:noteWindow>
</af:popup>
According to the documentation the af:noteWindow must be located as the direct child within a af:popup tag.
I guess the primary benefit of this component is to display help text inline within a page.
