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WebCenter Tips and Tricks, Part 3

Editor’s note: Here’s the third installment of WebCenter tips and tricks from Matthias Müller-Prove (@mprove). Check out the first two here. Tips’n’Tricks for WebCenter #3: How to display custom page titles in Spaces by Matthias Müller-Prove If people don’t know where they are in the web, they tend to get lost in cyberspace. This can be prevented [...]

Posted 13 January 2012 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

A WebCenter VM, Revisited

A couple years ago, I took on a geeky project, creating a WebCenter VM. The goal was to get WebCenter running so I could kick the tires and build something. It didn’t end well, thanks to a variety of factors, but one good thing that came of the effort was a conversation with Justin (@oracletechnet) [...]

Posted 13 January 2012 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

WebCenter Tips and Tricks: Parts 1 and 2

Editor’s note: New friend of the ‘Lab and former Sun guy Matthias Müller-Prove (@mprove) has posted the first two installments of his WebCenter Spaces tips and tricks. He initially posted these internally to Connect, which he uses as his internal blog, an unintentional feature we created a long time ago. Not so long ago, the [...]

Posted 12 January 2012 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

The Agony of Paying for Apps

Before the New Year, I ran across two separate posts about free apps, and as with many of my posts, this coincidence got me thinking and writing. The first was by Dan Ariely (h/t Slashdot), who writes about economics and stuff, two of my favorite topics. Plus, he referenced a favorite Oatmeal comic of mine, which [...]

Posted 10 January 2012 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °