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What is WebCenter, Part 2
In case you’re following along at home, Vince has posted the second installment in his “What is WebCenter” series. You can find the first part here.
So far, he’s kept it pretty high level, which makes sense. I expect that in future parts he’ll dive into the nitty gritty details a bit more, e.g. he says [...]
My iPhone Dilemma
If you follow me on Twitter (@jkuramot), you might already know that my iPhone, the OG version, is failing.
I noticed last week it wasn’t charging or syncing over USB. I performed all the usual tests to trap the problem–swapped cables, swapped ports on the Mac and on my USB hubs, swapped ports on my Ubuntu [...]
You Asked What is WebCenter . . .
A little while back, Chet (@oraclenerd) asked the Oracle WebCenter account (@oraclewebcenter) over Twitter, “What is WebCenter?”
Makes sense since Chet, and many others out there, are general Oracle practitioners, meaning they may specialize in a specific product, but are always curious and eager to expand their knowledge to other Oracle products, which is very easy [...]
Email Address Matters
Thanks to Reader, today I found this piece (h/t Slashdot and Lifehacker) by a freelance writer asking whether her aol.com email address was hopelessly square and dated.
I noticed this post initially because I can’t think of a single contact of mine with an aol.com address. I used to help a friend with AOL about five years [...]
Twitter as Plumbing
Cue the jokes.
So, Chet (@oraclenerd) floated this notion, originally proposed in the NYT, and it’s completely true. Check the evidence: $25 million from Google and Microsoft to pump the firehose of tweets into search results, a full ecosystem built around the Twitter API, even an apps marketplace, Oneforty, built around the ecosystem.
Incidentally, Oneforty, the brainchild of [...]
Checkin to Foursquare by Taking a Picture
I know I predicted that geo would be left at the altar 2010, but I think there’s huge potential in geo services.
Dissecting my prediction, I’m forecasting gang-busting growth for the “where-am-I” use case. Along those lines, I give you Photocheck.in (h/t TechCrunch), which hits two of my favorite things: geo and APIs.
In very simple terms, [...]
The Best Enterprise 2.0 Use Cases Haven’t Been Discovered, Yet
I noticed a comment came on Connect this week from a skeptic. Someone had posted this video of Seth Godin, and among the positive comments was one skeptic.
The skeptic correctly identified Seth’s bent toward consumer use cases and the general lack of enterprise use cases when talking about Enterprise 2.0 or Social Media or whatever [...]
Who Owns Your Online Identity?
Tired of social media? Maybe you’re like Rich, and you want to delete your Facebook account.
Well, there’s an app for that, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (h/t TechCrunch). Yeah, it’s a web app, but work with me here. Somehow I doubt this one would make it past Apple’s censors.
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine can permanently [...]
Unexpected Innovation
Channeling Seinfeld a bit, what’s up with stop lights lately?
I don’t know much about stop lights, aside from using them, and I wouldn’t immediately think of them as a hotbed for innovation.
Well, it’s a good thing that’s not my business because I’ve seen two separate innovations related to stop lights in the last month.
The first [...]
Join the EBS Challenge
About a month ago, I mentioned John P’s install EBS posts over at ORACLENERD. A few other people have decided to follow along for giggles, prompting Chet (@oraclenerd) to declare a formal “EBS Challenge“.
So far, here’s who’s participating:
Chet
Ted Simpson [blog|twitter]
Marcin Przepiorowski [blog|twitter]
Floyd Teter [blog|twitter]
Interested in joining? Feel free, and let Chet and Twitter know by retweeting. [...]
2010 Predictions
I’m stuck in this yearly cycle of wrap-up, prediction review and new predictions.
John B. made an interesting point about predictions yesterday:
Regarding tech predictions, the fascinating part isn’t WHETHER the predictions were right or wrong, but WHY they were right or wrong.
I agree, especially since my track record is spotty. I guess the whys keep us interesting beyond [...]
Assessing 2009 Predictions
Not entirely sure why I decided to predict events for 2009, probably because I did for 2008, which isn’t really an answer. I don’t recall why I ever decided to do predictions, but now it seems like a tradition.
Anyway, since I did, why not dissect them and see how I fared in 2009?
To recap, I predicted:
Twitter [...]
Goodbye 2009
With 2009 winding down quickly, I’m pleased to present you with that good old blogging tradition–the year-end wrap post.
2009 was an eventful year for us. Mostly noteworthy: we joined the WebCenter development team to work on the internal rollout of WebCenter 11g, validating our work on Connect and Mix and minting us as a bona-fide [...]
Epilogue: Create a WebCenter VM
So, after failing to bring this project home before Christmas, I picked it up again yesterday, unfortunately with the same results.
I reached out to some people on the WebCenter team who could help, and the consensus was that I don’t have enough system resources to run the full stack on a single VM. Further examination [...]
Facebook Should Be Better at Search
I don’t use Facebook much anymore. It’s become polluted with spam and annoying social games, not really my cup of tea.
Even so, as far as I know, Facebook is the de facto way to connect with people you’ve lost touch with over the years. While attempting to do this for a few people from the [...]
Foursquare for the Holidays
Happy holidays everyone. I got you a heat map. Do you like it?
I’m technically on vacation this week, but I cannot take a vacation from the Interwebs. While browsing feeds yesterday, I saw this post from Gizmodo titled “Foursquare, As Seen by the Predator”.
My crush on foursquare is well-documented, and I’ve always liked “The Predator“, [...]
Geeky Project Part 10: Create a WebCenter VM
I really, really, really wanted to bring this whole project home with a triumphant ending today, erm late last night.
It started out as a lark and has been a great learning experience, but it’s been hanging over my head since before Thanksgiving. I’ve got other, more important work to do, and I’m sure you’re sick [...]
Geeky Project Part 9: Create a WebCenter VM
So, I’m in the home stretch installing WebCenter.
Here’s the installation guide, if you’re following along at home. Yesterday, I got through the “Preparing to Install” steps, which consist mostly of running RCU to create the WebCenter schemas.
I’m skipping the installation of JDeveloper for the time being. If I were using the VM in the future, [...]
Geeky Project Part 8: Create a WebCenter VM
So, I’m back on track after yesterday’s detour to configure 11g and get it ready for the WebCenter schemas.
I’m working off the WebCenter installation guide, by the way, Section 2.1.3 Create Schemas for Oracle WebCenter.
Next step is to download and run Repository Creation Utility (RCU) which handily creates all the Fusion Middleware schemas for you, [...]
Geeky Project Part 7: Create a WebCenter VM
First, let me start off with a hearty thanks to John (@jpiwowar) for his help with my n00bism, a.k.a. Part 6 in this series.
Also, thanks to those of you with DBA skills out there for not flaming me for my lack thereof. Part 6 was a bit of a disaster, but thanks to John and Time [...]
