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 higher. [...]
Five minutes after I posted my Google Wave analysis, I ran into Dion Hinchcliffe’s excellent analysis of Google Wave. A must read for Enterprise 2.0 folks.
This is exactly what I’m envisioning happening with Google Wave in the enterprise. It will become the “glue code” for the user experience. It won’t replace existing back-end apps, but [...]
Last week’s Google I/O left me feeling very optimistic for what’s to come in the world of web apps. I don’t have a whole lot to add to the coverage of Google Wave and the other cool things disclosed at I/O. However, after seeing the demo of Google Wave, I couldn’t help but think of [...]
So, Rich and Anthony are at Google I/O today, and I’m hearing everyone was blown away by Google Wave.
Rich tweeted, IM’ed and finally called me to say how awesome it was. I’m now waiting to watch the hour-and-a-half demo that rocked so hard.
I’m hoping Rich’s session went well. He was bummed that they conflicted with [...]
As promised, here’s the riveting second installment of my sort-of recap from WebVisions last week.
On Friday last week, I went to the OpenID panel discussion, hosted by Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb and starring Scott Kveton, vice-chair of the OpenID foundation board of directors and bacon enthusiast, Chris Messina, community advocate for OpenID, OAuth, and open [...]
A quick note, Rich will be presenting at Google I/O this Thursday on a panel called “OpenSocial in the Enterprise“.
He’ll be sharing our experiences with OpenSocial and Connect. Although we haven’t yet released our OpenSocial container, Rich and Anthony have been tinkering with it for over a year and have a sandbox environment we’ve been [...]
Last Thursday and Friday, I attended the 2009 iteration of WebVisions, a conference held here in Portland focused on the future of web design and development.
As with last year, my goal for attending was to gain new design perspectives. Web design is constantly evolving, and we use many of the innovations present on the consumer [...]
I’m so far behind on my reading, having been on vacation and currently attending WebVisions.
Still, I noticed a post to the Disqus blog from last week announcing their support for sign-in via Twitter. You may recall they also support Facebook Connect, which I enabled back in March, and now you can also use your Twitter [...]
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 sign [...]
It’s nearly over, you made it. I’ll be back soon to answer all your comments, right after I catch up on thousand or so emails.
We didn’t really start blogging until June 2007, so technically it’s 23 months, but here’s the archive from June 2007.
Googleforce.com Coming Soon?: My very first post and it still hasn’t happened. [...]
Third installment, you’re past halfway there now. I know you miss me. I’m probably jonesing for the ‘tubes right now. Enjoy.
Here’s the archive from November 2007.
Talk the Talk: Even if they got it wrong, CSI was at least a year ahead of the curve with the Twitter reference. You can’t turn on the TV without [...]
The second installment of the wayback digest, a.k.a. the “I’m gone, but I want to keep the content fresh” series. Enjoy.
Here’s the archive from May 2008, a mere twelve months ago. Feels like an eternity, looking over the posts. Anyway . . .
My First BarCamp: I’m a fan of the unconference format. Hoping this year’s [...]
So, I’m headed off the grid for a while. In my absence, I figured I’d keep the content fresh by recycling some old stuff.
A bit ironic, but bear with me. Blogging for me is very tied to what’s happening right now.
We’ve been around for a little over two years now, but it seems like a [...]
Update: Twitter founder Biz Stone has posted exactly the explanation we (all 3% of us) wanted, and I completely understand the hurry to rush out without fully thinking through the loud ramifications of the squeaky 3%. Kudos.
You’ve probably heard about the Twitter @replies fiasco by now.
Marshall has a good recap and explanation of the “fix” [...]
As I mentioned last week, we’ve released the 4.0 version of Connect, which includes a boat-load of new stuff.
Our main goals for this release were:
Put the focus on people, not on objects.
Make it dead simple to share anything.
Aggregate information by supporting multiple sources.
Provide intelligent filtering for easy viewing.
Consolidate output of the information we aggregate.
Give groups [...]
So, Canonical released the latest version of the Ubuntu distro recently, Jaunty Jackalope, version 9.04.
I played with Jaunty in a VM a bit when it was in alpha, and I didn’t notice many new features, compared to Intrepid, aside from the new login splash screen and the Growl-style notifications.
I waited a few days, then last [...]
Well, our big redesign of Connect, version 4.0, is finally live. Anthony and Rich are knocking out some final issues, but we cut over earlier this afternoon.
Luckily, it’s the weekend. So, our users aren’t using right now.
Unluckily, it’s the weekend, and everyone on the team has plans.
Next week, I’ll fill you in on the new [...]
This is a new one for me.
Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported (via Wikileaks) that hackers had compromised a Virginia state prescription web site, deleted the eight million records and replaced the home page with a ransom note.
The ransom demand, $10 million.
Apparently, this isn’t the first case of datanapping, which doesn’t surprise me. I [...]
I started this post before the New Year, and it sat in drafts for a long time.
It was never meant to be a prediction post, so the title makes it feel a bit funny. Still, I kept it because this year, the side project seems more common than ever.
Maybe it’s a function of Portland or [...]
We’re currently working on a redesign for Connect, and like any project, waterfall, agile or otherwise, we have a testing phase.
I’ve been designing and building software for a long time, assuming you consider mid-90s a long time, and testing has always been the toughest part of the process.
I’m talking about system testing, which means banging [...]
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