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Transparent Development? We Has It.

You may have noticed more talk about what we’re doing and why lately.
Comments are down, so either this is exceedingly dull to you, or you completely agree and have nothing to add. Either way, as we move forward with our plan to deploy Connect as an OpenSocial container and update the UI to support OpenSocial [...]

Posted 25 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Mix Updates and New Features

Recently, even though we’ve been focusing on Connect and OpenSocial, but Mix hasn’t been standing still.
ENTP has been working to fix bugs and build features for Marketing that will be showcased heading into OpenWorld.
Last night, a slew of bug fixes and a new feature or two were deployed to Mix. If you’re a regular Mix [...]

Posted 25 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle AppsLab 2008-07-24 22:37:51

So, Noel Portugal is at it again.
He has expanded his pet project, OraTweet, to include OraTweetBot, which he says is:
. . . an XMPP/Jabber bot built with Java that will listen for tweets and post them to Twitter or to a database.
I never use the XMPP/IM Twitter integration, but I know it’s more popular than [...]

Posted 24 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Voting Lessons Learned

Now that the suggest a session for OpenWorld campaign has ended, it’s time to reflect on what we learned.

First off, thanks to everyone who submitted a session idea. There were 281 submitted before the deadline, and someone even figured out how to create a session after we closed the nomination form. Bonus points for ingenuity.
Now [...]

Posted 23 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

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Posted 22 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

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Posted 22 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Big Changes are Afoot

I spent the day today with my AppsLab brethren sequestered like a jury in the Thunderball conference room in sunny Pleasanton, CA. Or maybe it’s Dublin.
Anyway, Paul called us all together to hunker down on some design work. Well, some new design and some redesign.
If you’re interested in the future of the Connect and eventually [...]

Posted 22 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Congratulations to the OpenWorld Session Winners

It’s finally official.
The winning sessions have been announced over at the OpenWorld blog. Congrats to the winners. The Events team selected the top 25 vote-getters, and Lisa Stuart has already begun notifying the submitters via Mix.
Here are the winners ordered by number of votes. I’ve included links to the bloggers I know.

Security: Writing Custom Authentication [...]

Posted 21 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Word of the Day

I learned a new word today, nerdcore. Here’s how the Urban Dictionary defines it:
Any form of music that is made by nerds, for nerds, or about nerdly things. Nerdcore can be made in any style of music, but most people identify it in either its pop-punk or hip-hop forms.
With the important caveat:
Nerdcore should not be [...]

Posted 19 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

More iPwnage

Disclaimer: Honestly, I love my iPhone. It still rules, and I wouldn’t own another smartphone. However, the cynical misanthrope in me loves to deconstruct the hype that surrounds the “God phone”.
On today’s agenda, two items: 1) the “Best phone for business. Ever.” claim and 2) more 3G nonsense.
For Business? Not yet.
Beyond the brazen, marketing claims [...]

Posted 18 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °