Monthly Archives: November 2007

Mix So Far

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 thoughts.
Most [...]

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 wondering if Drummerboy19 [...]

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, and [...]

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 1: [...]

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 the software [...]

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 |     5 |
| Models               |   [...]

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 we [...]

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 JRuby [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 award [...]

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 a [...]