I mentioned a few weeks ago that OraTweet, Noel‘s mirco-blogging package built in APEX, would soon be released to the public after he made some tweaks to get it production-ready. Today, he unveiled it. You can download OraTweet here. It’s provided free of charge, as-is, and requires Oracle 10g or 11g and APEX 3.1.x or… Read More
First off, thanks for hanging in there while I caught up on my R&R. I came back today to hear the happy news that OraTweet will soon be available to anyone who wants to give it whirl. Noel is prepping the final package for distribution, but if you’re interested now, head over to oratweet.com and… Read More
Our buddy Noel (who has a new blog) got some mainstream news coverage today from Michael Hickins at Information Weekly. Hickins mentions OraTweet, calling Oracle as the “unlikeliest company to launch a product of this nature”, and quotes Noel in his post. Very cool indeed for Noel, whose little side project is all grown up… Read More
I’ve spent a bit of quality time with Noel’s OraTweet this week, mostly because of Ed’s OpenSocial app development adventures. Noel really has done a lot with OraTweet since June, when he first showed it to me. It’s got all the Twitter features you’d expect, and it has “groups”. Don’t get too excited, it’s more… Read More
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… Read More
Blogging and long-form content seem so tedious to me nowadays, but if you’ve read here for a while, you’ll recall that I used to post several times a week. One of the reasons I’ve kept this blog running in the era of ever-shorter content is that it keeps a historical record of this team’s work and… Read More
OK, it wasn’t me exactly. It was more like some of my software-based representatives. Hi, I’m Ed (@edhjones). And I’m not one of the AppsLab folks. But I’m always interested in the work they do, so I try to hang out with them whenever we’re co-located. I was intrigued then when, a couple of months… Read More
Want to learn more about the Internet of Things? Are you attending Oracle OpenWorld 2016 or JavaOne 2016? Then you are in luck! Once again we have partnered with the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) team to give OOW16 and JavaOne attendees an IoT hands-on workshop. We will provide a free* IoT Cloud Kit so you can get your feet wet on… Read More
After a quiet Summer during which I hear he was busy getting married, Friend of the ‘Lab John Sim (@jrsim_uix) of Fishbowl Solutions (@fishbowle20) has unleashed a torrent of good technical posts over on his C4 blog. The four c’s are content, context, collaboration and community, if you’re wondering about the blog’s name. ADF WebCenter… Read More
In case you missed it, the WebCenter (@oraclewebcenter) blog has been featuring stories about Social at Oracle this week. These are five stories about how teams at Oracle use social for everyday work stuff; there are more that would be fun to read, and maybe someday, they’ll do another week or two. Anyway, here’s a… Read More
Editor’s note: This is cross-posted from the Oracle WebCenter (@oraclewebcenter) blog for posterity. Stay tuned to that channel for more stories about social at Oracle. Peter’s (@peterreiser) tribute to SunSpace has inspired me to tell the story of Oracle Connect, Oracle’s internal social application. Social enterprise is all rage now, and this trend has grown out of… Read More
When a side project takes on a life of its own, you feel both intensely gratified and frightened all at once. This has been my experience with all the side projects I’ve been involved with anyway. On the one hand, the reason you build product at all is to solve a problem users have, ideally… Read More
In yesterday’s afternoon keynote, the Oracle Social Network was officially announced. Check out friend of the ‘Lab Peter Reiser’s (@peterreiser) coverage for details. A few of you who’ve been reading here for a while have asked if this new product is any part of the socials apps we built and operate internally, Oracle Connect and… Read More
I’m having a spirited debate about tagging with Matthias Müller-Prove (@mprove) on OraTweet, and I thought it would be interesting to open it up to long format and other viewpoints. Plus, we’re flooding OraTweet, which I’m not sure people appreciate. Setting the Stage I like tags. They’re quite valuable and provide an easy way to… Read More
I spend most of my time thinking about new and upcoming technology, but sometimes, it’s nice to reflect. The social enterprise is big news this week, and I’m glad this idea’s time has finally come. If you read here, you’ll know we were early proponents of socializing work, launching the IdeaFactory, which became Oracle Connect,… Read More
I’m happy to announce that AppsLab has grown by one, and we’re pleased to welcome Noel Portugal (@noelportugal) to our little family. If you read here, you’ll recognize Noel’s name. I first met Noel back in June 2008, when he reached out to me to show me OraTweet, his Twitter clone built with Oracle APEX.… Read More
Mobile is super hot now and has been for a while. I know, duh. If you’re in development, you’ve been thinking about mobile, or at least, your users have been pushing you to do that. We’ve dabbled with mobile a bit, e.g. Anthony’s (@anthonyslai) Android app for WebCenter, but being Android guys, we tend to build… Read More
Forgive the mix of movies. Secretly, you know you love mashups of your favorite movies, like peanut butter and chocolate. Anyway, I was chatting over OraTweet with a pal here at work about this unbelievable but true deal from Amazon on the Droid family of phones. She’s in India, making the deal unavailable, but the… Read More
On the heels of our bookmarklet for sharing to WebCenter, today we were designing another other way to help people interact with WebCenter from the browser without interrupting their workflow. We’re building browser extensions, first for Firefox, then for Chrome and possibly the newly released Safari 5. If you read here, you’ll know we’re an… Read More
So, the iPhone OS has had the ability to take a screenshot since 2.0, simply hold down the sleep and home buttons for a couple seconds, and click, you’ve got a screenshot. This is a great feature, and one lacking from Android’s base OS, i.e. there’s no button combination or included app that takes screenshots.… Read More
