Comments on: We Heart Hackers

By: manalang

manalang — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:14:36 +0000

Scorn PL/SQL? I don't scorn PL/SQL… Jake put words in my mouth. I've never even touched PL/SQL. Anyway, I do dislike the thought of a proprietary language. For the same reason, I never really liked PeopleCode. I want to learn things that I can take to any job. I suppose PL/SQL is pretty pervasive. Also, I prefer OO languages that help me get things done very rapidly.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:58:40 +0000

I'll Rich answer for himself, but if I had to guess, it's due to his PeopleSoft roots

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:19:02 +0000

Out of interest, why does Rich scorn PL/SQL? I'm probably way out of my league asking, but I was interested to read that, considering Rich's techy background…

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:58:43 +0000

Two of the ways we discussed as easy wins for a Twitter-style status tracking app. Tweet @ the project name with updates, use Twitter to get in touch w/distributed teammates. Beautiful.

Have you tried out Noel's OraTweet? Avoids the confidential information on the 'Tubes bit.

By: topperge

topperge — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:00:39 +0000

I actually use twitter for keeping track of my teams time already. They tweet tasks their working on to a central account and I grab all the user's messages for the week. I just need to make a way to interface it with the internal time management app and expenses. It's nice for quick trouble shooting questions too between the team members.

By: davidhaimes

davidhaimes — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:24:34 +0000

Hi my name is David and I like PL/SQL - nothing to be ashamed of, but it has such a bad rep, I want to come out in support of good on pl/sql

Noel,

I'd love to use OraTweet for 1. above; Tasks Status updates. I talked about this with the AppsLab possee a while ago and was pleased that one of my team had the same vision, we tried the wordpress twitter like blog template
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/introdu...
but it wasn't quite right. I think my team's appetite for new technology is more than filled with the Fusion middle ware (we keep buying more technology… it's tough to keep up) so nobody has wanted to tackle this - I'll get in touch so we can check it out.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:45:23 +0000

Great work from both Noel and Marcelo. Keep up the hacking.

By: Marcelo F. Ochoa

Marcelo F. Ochoa — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:35:44 +0000

Hi Jake, I have posted a similar hack for sending XMPP message from Oracle in my blog two months ago (http://marceloochoa.blogspot.com/2008/04/can-or...) following the example of Lucas Jellema (http://technology.amis.nl/blog/).
But Noel go one step further.
Best regards, Marcelo.

By: noelportugal

noelportugal — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:33:45 +0000

Thanks Jake for the post. I am currently working to get this project live internally, and also will be available for download as an APEX packaged application (like ARIA).
As noted in this article http://hivetalk.info/2007/07/28/7-enterprise-us... here are a few examples of using Twitter (OraTweet in my case ) in the Enterprise.
1. Task status updates from team members.
2. Real-time presence status for IM.
3. Informal timelog.
4. Assign tasks while away from the office.
5. Notify of important wiki updates.
6. Update everyone on last-minute schedule changes.
7. Process IM in batches.