Vi Rules!

Published on September 30th, 2008 16 Comments

… and you know it.  I’m sure we have enough geeky readers here that know what I’m talking about.  For those that don’t (you suck) — Vi, simply put, is the best damn text editor ever created. A couple of weeks ago a poll was started on OraTweet regarding Vi vs. Emacs: How could there [...]

AppsLab Stickers!!!

Published on September 19th, 2008 2 Comments

Another last minute update… at 10:56am PDT today, Jake suggested we get stickers for next week.  I thought it was a fabulous idea.  So, I immediately went to work at creating a sticker design.  In a few minutes I cranked this out: This design was set at 1″ x 2.5″ — a perfect size to [...]

delicious blog ” Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here

Published on July 31st, 2008 Leave a Comment

The best and most effective redesign I've ever seen

delicious blog ” Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here

Published on July 31st, 2008 Leave a Comment

The best and most effective redesign I've ever seen

delicious blog » Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here

Published on July 31st, 2008 Leave a Comment

The best and most effective redesign I've ever seen

OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Published on July 30th, 2008 7 Comments

Instead of adding a comment to Jake’s post on his Ubuntu experience to-date, I thought I’d just blog my perspective. Here’s my backstory with Apple, MSFT, Linux, and others: Mid to late 80s: Timex Sinclair 1000… loved writing programs on cassette tapes!  How many of you Web 2.0 kiddies can say that? Early to mid [...]

Ruby on Rails and BEA AquaLogic

Published on June 12th, 2008 Leave a Comment

About 40 minutes ago, Chris Bucchere posted a OpenWorld session proposal on Mix. His session is called “Building Web 2.0 Social Applications in Ruby on Rails using BEA AquaLogic Interaction.” The session will also cover optimizing your application for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). Anyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails on enterprise scale [...]

CommunityOne 2008

Published on April 30th, 2008 Leave a Comment

Those of you looking to beat the Monday blues (this coming Monday) should come out to CommunityOne 2008 in San Francisco. I’ll be part of the Ruby panel that’s being chaired by Tim Bray. Should be a good event. Best part… IT’S FREE!!! The Ruby panel I’m on will be joined by Mark Driver, Gartner, [...]

OpenSocial’izing Our Apps

Published on April 17th, 2008 Leave a Comment

Now that Jake has exposed our next venture, I thought I’d flesh out some more details on what we hope to accomplish by building our own OpenSocial container.  When OpenSocial came out, it all took us AppsLab’ers by surprise that Oracle was a founding member.  It wasn’t really a surprise that Google was building something [...]

JRuby Meetup!

Published on March 10th, 2008 Leave a Comment

For those of you who are live in the Bay Area (East Bay in particular), I’ll be speaking at the East Bay Ruby Meetup next Tuesday.  Here’s the talk abstract: JRuby is fast becoming a solid (and possibly preferred choice) for deploying Rails apps. Rich Manalang from Oracle will talk about how he and a [...]

JRuby on Rails: Oracle SSO Integration

Published on February 27th, 2008 2 Comments

Laurent reminded me that I promised a write up of how we accomplished the Oracle SSO integration for Mix.  So, I’ve created an Oracle Wiki page that has details on how it works.  If you have any experience with Oracle SSO and Rails (or is working on a project that requires this), please add your [...]

Mix President’s Day Release: JRuby 1.1RC2 and a bunch of other stuff!

Published on February 17th, 2008 14 Comments

Since U.S. based Oracle employees don’t get President’s Day off, Anthony and I decided to deploy some new changes while everyone is off enjoying their day off.  Actually, that’s not true, we deployed the new Mix changes early Sunday morning.  What should have taken 10 minutes lasted 2 hours — it was a big release. [...]

JRuby RC2 Released; What’s Next?

Published on February 17th, 2008 Leave a Comment

If you're curious about RC2's performance, log onto https://mix.oracle.com. As of this morning, Mix is running on RC2!

JRuby RC2 Released; What’s Next?

Published on February 17th, 2008 Leave a Comment

If you're curious about RC2's performance, log onto https://mix.oracle.com. As of this morning, Mix is running on RC2!

Super Tuesday

Published on February 5th, 2008 12 Comments

Today is a big day. Not only because it’s Super Tuesday in the U.S., but also because it’s Super Tuesday here at the AppsLab. Last night, Anthony and I rolled out some major changes to Mix that many people have been clamoring for. The main feature we rolled out is RSS feed support. Now you [...]

PeopleSoft Tech Blog

Published on January 9th, 2008 8 Comments

This must have slipped our radar — Jeff Robbins and his crew of PeopleTools experts started a blog back in October last year.  However, looks like they need some traffic sent their way.  There are a few other PeopleSoft related blogs out there.  Here are some that pop into mind: Jim’s PeopleSoft Journal — Jim [...]

Tagged!

Published on January 8th, 2008 8 Comments

I’m it — Floyd tagged me. So, here are my 8 things (for context on what this is, read this): January 6th marked my 11th year at Oracle (8 w/PeopleSoft and 3 w/Oracle). Seems like a long time to be in a company. The cool thing is that I’ve managed to wear many different hats [...]

Rails Is A Ghetto

Published on January 3rd, 2008 Leave a Comment

I've been following Zed's rant since he posted it… it's an absolutely entertaining read. Good thing he's got nothing against the JRuby team. I'm glad that he's refreshingly honest about the way he feels.

Rails Is A Ghetto

Published on January 3rd, 2008 Leave a Comment

I've been following Zed's rant since he posted it… it's an absolutely entertaining read. Good thing he's got nothing against the JRuby team. I'm glad that he's refreshingly honest about the way he feels.

The Great Ruby Shootout | Zen and the Art of Ruby Programming

Published on December 3rd, 2007 Leave a Comment

JRuby following behind Ruby 1.9. I can't wait until JRuby uptakes 1.9!

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