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OpenSocial’izing Our Apps

Now that Jake has exposed our next venture, I thought I’d flesh out some more details on what we hope to accomplish by building our own OpenSocial container.  When OpenSocial came out, it all took us AppsLab’ers by surprise that Oracle was a founding member.  It wasn’t really a surprise that Google was building something [...]

Posted 17 April 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

JRuby Meetup!

For those of you who are live in the Bay Area (East Bay in particular), I’ll be speaking at the East Bay Ruby Meetup next Tuesday.  Here’s the talk abstract:
JRuby is fast becoming a solid (and possibly preferred choice) for deploying Rails apps. Rich Manalang from Oracle will talk about how he and a small [...]

Posted 10 March 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

JRuby on Rails: Oracle SSO Integration

Laurent reminded me that I promised a write up of how we accomplished the Oracle SSO integration for Mix.  So, I’ve created an Oracle Wiki page that has details on how it works.  If you have any experience with Oracle SSO and Rails (or is working on a project that requires this), please add your [...]

Posted 27 February 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Mix President’s Day Release: JRuby 1.1RC2 and a bunch of other stuff!

Since U.S. based Oracle employees don’t get President’s Day off, Anthony and I decided to deploy some new changes while everyone is off enjoying their day off.  Actually, that’s not true, we deployed the new Mix changes early Sunday morning.  What should have taken 10 minutes lasted 2 hours — it was a big release.
We [...]

Posted 18 February 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

JRuby RC2 Released; What’s Next?

If you’re curious about RC2’s performance, log onto https://mix.oracle.com. As of this morning, Mix is running on RC2!

Posted 18 February 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Super Tuesday

Today is a big day. Not only because it’s Super Tuesday in the U.S., but also because it’s Super Tuesday here at the AppsLab. Last night, Anthony and I rolled out some major changes to Mix that many people have been clamoring for. The main feature we rolled out is RSS feed [...]

Posted 05 February 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

PeopleSoft Tech Blog

This must have slipped our radar — Jeff Robbins and his crew of PeopleTools experts started a blog back in October last year.  However, looks like they need some traffic sent their way.  There are a few other PeopleSoft related blogs out there.  Here are some that pop into mind:

Jim’s PeopleSoft Journal — Jim Marion [...]

Posted 09 January 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Tagged!

I’m it — Floyd tagged me. So, here are my 8 things (for context on what this is, read this):

January 6th marked my 11th year at Oracle (8 w/PeopleSoft and 3 w/Oracle). Seems like a long time to be in a company. The cool thing is that I’ve managed to wear many [...]

Posted 09 January 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rails Is A Ghetto

I’ve been following Zed’s rant since he posted it… it’s an absolutely entertaining read. Good thing he’s got nothing against the JRuby team. I’m glad that he’s refreshingly honest about the way he feels.

Posted 03 January 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °