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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 † Jake § ‡ Comments Off °

When you’ve too much time…

On the way back to the hotel I recorded a little video with my camera. As I’m away from family I played around with iMovie (a great product which you get with OSX).I put some music on it and tried to get it on YouTube. It’s a matter of a click in iMovi…

Posted 25 July 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § ‡ 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 † Jake § ‡ Comments Off °

Blogger Meetup - Oracle OpenWorld 2008

Are you an Oracle-related blogger? Are you attending Oracle OpenWorld this year? If you answered yes to both questions, then you are invited to attend the yearly blogger meetup at the ThirstyBear Restaurant and Brewery, Tuesday September 23rd at 7:00 PM.

Mark Rittman has been the person organizing the blogger meetup events for the past few [...]

Posted 25 July 2008 † Eddie Awad § ‡ Comments Off °

This Bug Brought To You By The Letter “U”

One silly bug. Ah ah ah ah!
Bugs come in all shapes and sizes. Big bugs, little bugs, bugs that crash your database, bugs that make a query run oddly. Some believe there are even bugs in human existence.
There is a running joke that has been around forever regarding bugs vs. features. [...]

Posted 25 July 2008 † The Oracle Alchemist § ‡ Comments Off °

A Useful Recruiter’s Blog

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

I wrote the other day about how recruiter’s and it folk can work together. Tonight I was contacted by a recruiter looking for Java programmers. Besides me already taking another job, I’m not a java guy. I’m a database guy who does some java. So, I wrote hi

Posted 25 July 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § ‡ Comments Off °

Will the Optimizer development team be at Oracle Open World?

The largest gathering of Oracle customers, partners, developers, and technology enthusiasts will happen in September when Oracle will host its annual user conference Open World in San Francisco and the Optimizer development group will be there! You wil…

Posted 24 July 2008 † Optimizer Development Group § ‡ 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 † Jake § ‡ Comments Off °

I Know Nothing About Data Warehouse Appliances and Now, So Won’t You - Part IV. Microsoft takes over DATAllegro.

It looks like my blog entries about DATAllegro (such as this piece about DATAllegro and magic 4GFC throughput) are going to start to sound a wee bit different:
Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Posted 24 July 2008 † kevinclosson § ‡ Comments Off °

Adding New Facts and Dimensions to the BI Apps Data Warehouse

I’ve been working with Informatica 8.1.1, the Oracle BI Applications and the DAC (Data Warehouse Administration) for a while now, and over this time I’ve tried to post a few techniques I’ve picked up whilst putting the tools through their paces. I’m going to round up the current set of postings now with one on [...]

Posted 24 July 2008 † Mark Rittman § ‡ Comments Off °