We just got site analytics installed on Mix. It would have been nice to see the traffic patterns the week of OpenWorld. Sometimes duh stuff like that takes longer than anticipated, but oh well. We’re about three weeks in, give or take a holiday, so I figured I’d check out the ideas and share some… Read More
Month: November 2007
Human Computation
Very cool stuff: Paul put me on to this, David mentioned it too, video lecture from the creator of the ESP game, image labeling keyword game
Human Computation
Very cool stuff: Paul put me on to this, David mentioned it too, video lecture from the creator of the ESP game, image labeling keyword game
Talk the Talk
This post from Mashable got me thinking about something that’s eaten at me ever since I got into tech many moons ago. Watch the clip from “CSI”, observe the Twitter plug, chuckle at the pithy dialog. Some people just don’t value privacy. They don’t expect privacy; they value openness. Whatever. The best part, aside from… Read More
What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?
Eddie’s Oracle People Map got me thinking about what I like about social networks and why some are more valuable to me than others. Data visualization is cool, and seeing where people are geographically is a trip. I had coffee with Rick Turoczy, the Silicon Florist, today to talk about the tech scene in Portland,… Read More
In Defense of Gen Y Workers – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership
Wow, the comments are even more interesting than the article, but why won't anyone comment as themselves
In Defense of Gen Y Workers – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership
Wow, the comments are even more interesting than the article, but why won't anyone comment as themselves
Great Customer Service
Ok, this post may not be what you expect from our blog, but I had to share two great examples of excellent customer service that I experienced recently. It is my opinion that excellent service is ever important in this time of low switching costs and doing it right has approximately zero marginal cost. Example… Read More
Hug a Developer
First off, sorry for sending spam and bacn, the other inbox meat, all over the place. I’m trying to build a community here, so mind the dust. Remember Puneet from Life in the Bullpen? His comment on an idea of mine got me thinking of another reason why you should use Mix. The network humanizes… Read More
Mix Rake Stats
Artem Vasiliev asked for the Mix rake stats… here they are: +———————-+——-+——-+———+———+—–+——-+ | Name | Lines | LOC | Classes | Methods | M/C | LOC/M | +———————-+——-+——-+———+———+—–+——-+ | Controllers | 1825 | 1504 | 22 | 145 | 6 | 8 | | Helpers | 248 | 217 | 0 | 28 | 0… Read More
Dilbert Comic Strip Archive – Dilbert.com – The Official Dilbert Website by Scott Adams – Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers!
Dilbert on Agile (Extreme!!!!) Programming
Dilbert Comic Strip Archive – Dilbert.com – The Official Dilbert Website by Scott Adams – Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers!
Dilbert on Agile (Extreme!!!!) Programming
Help Populate the AppsLab Event Widget
A few months ago, I blogged about the events widget that appears directly under the Archives section in the left-hand column of this blog. The list of events posted to the Upcoming appslab group is getting a little short, so I went through and posted a bunch more, including Web 2.0 Expo in April, which… Read More
Mix is for Everyone
Paul announced our new community, Oracle Mix, during OpenWorld. Rich blogged about the experience he and ThoughtWorks had building Mix in 4-ish weeks. Depending on whom you ask, Mix took anywhere from 6-3 weeks to execute, so it was a classic agile project. Oh yeah, in case you didn’t know already, Mix is built in… Read More
Welcome Two (Now Four) More Bloggers
OpenWorld followed by Thanksgiving have really put a damper on my blogging, but today, my plan is to get back on track. First off, I want to welcome two new bloggers to the blogosphere. Part of my job is getting Oracle people comfortable with blogging and encouraging them to start blogs. It’s a tough cultural… Read More
Product pages: so much suck, so easy to fix
we need to apply these concepts to Mix' front page
Product pages: so much suck, so easy to fix
we need to apply these concepts to Mix' front page
Mix, JRuby on Rails, Small Teams, Agile, and it’s Effects on the World
A week after going live with Oracle Mix, we’ve gotten a considerable amount of buzz and interest from every aspect of Mix. Most everyone we’ve talked with are really happy to see Oracle becoming more transparent. Mix is a huge part of that. There are a lot of tool heads out there who are really… Read More
Something Cool from OpenWorld
I forgot to mention this in my OpenWorld recap post, but it’s probably just as well. It might have been lost with the rest of the content. Dan Norris was talking about what he does, apparently he works, and he mentioned the Fall Saver. I guess Dan works with Piocon, and Piocon won a Titan… Read More
Back from OpenWorld
Sure, I got back from OpenWorld last Thursday, but I’m only now willing to get back in the saddle and blog about it. As I mentioned to a few of the Enterprise Irregulars who attended, OpenWorld is a marathon. Imagine a full day sessions, quietly sitting and listening, tons of walking around San Francisco, meeting… Read More