Monthly Archives: September 2007

Six Apart - News and Events: We Are Opening the Social Graph


Top 10 Reasons Why Ruby Sucks Ass

a counterpoint to the previous post

Top 10 Reasons Why Java Sucks Ass

Longer title: Top 10 Reasons Why Anything and Everything Related to Java Programming and Open-Source Frameworks Sucks Major Ass in Comparison to Anything and Everything Related to Ruby and Rails

Top 10 Reasons Why Ruby Sucks Ass

a counterpoint to the previous post

Top 10 Reasons Why Java Sucks Ass

Longer title: Top 10 Reasons Why Anything and Everything Related to Java Programming and Open-Source Frameworks Sucks Major Ass in Comparison to Anything and Everything Related to Ruby and Rails

McAfee’s Own 9x Problem

As I sat this week at the Gartner conference, I had the opportunity to hear Andrew McAfee speak about Enterprise 2.0. One of the things I enjoyed hearing live was the 9x problem. He has written about it before, but the phenomenon is that we tend to overestimate the value of current solutions [...]

Sun surprises at RailsConf Europe 2007

"He even went as far as to say that developing web applications in Java after working with Rails would probably not be a particularly pleasant experience for him. Wow."

Sun surprises at RailsConf Europe 2007

"He even went as far as to say that developing web applications in Java after working with Rails would probably not be a particularly pleasant experience for him. Wow."

Rails and the Enterprise

"Most enterprise developers believe that Rails is a toy framework, or have a religious devotion to the familiar and tend to fear change."

Rails and the Enterprise

"Most enterprise developers believe that Rails is a toy framework, or have a religious devotion to the familiar and tend to fear change."

New Applications Strategy Blogs

It’s my pleasure to welcome a couple new(ish), Applications Strategy blogs to the Oracle blogosphere.

Financials Strategy, written by the Financials Strategy team
Project Directions, written by the Projects Strategy team

In case you didn’t know (read the About), we (AppsLab) are part of the Applications Strategy organization, so these are teams we work with frequently. Whether or [...]

Faceforce = Creepiness + Spam

I’ll start by saying what I like about Faceforce, the unofficial mashup between Salesforce.com and Facebook.

It’s a great example of ad hoc collaboration between two companies in what seems to be an unofficial way. Clara Shih, an AppExchange Product Manager at Salesforce.com and Todd Perry, a software engineer at Facebook, built this integration.
It’s a nice [...]

Oracle OpenWorld 2007 - Social Networking, Twittering, Flickring and Unconferencing < Eddie Awad?s Blog

Many ways to follow and contribute to OOW 2007.

Oracle OpenWorld 2007 - Social Networking, Twittering, Flickring and Unconferencing < Eddie Awad’s Blog

Many ways to follow and contribute to OOW 2007.

Oracle OpenWorld 2007 - Social Networking, Twittering, Flickring and Unconferencing < Eddie Awad’s Blog

Many ways to follow and contribute to OOW 2007.

Oracle OpenWorld 2007 - Social Networking, Twittering, Flickring and Unconferencing < Eddie Awad’s Blog

Many ways to follow and contribute to OOW 2007.

Oracle OpenWorld 2007 - Social Networking, Twittering, Flickring and Unconferencing < Eddie Awad’s Blog

Many ways to follow and contribute to OOW 2007.

Oracle OpenWorld Unconference: Wow!

This year an unconference will be running in parallel to the official show agenda.

Oracle OpenWorld Unconference: Wow!

This year an unconference will be running in parallel to the official show agenda.

Salesforce to Launch Community Platform for Clients

This wisdom-of-the-crowds tool is now being extended to all Salesforce clients, and will be fully available early next year.