OraTweet Ready for Flight

By Jake • Published on June 2nd, 2009 • View Comments

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. [...]

OraTweet Leaves the Nest

By Jake • Published on May 21st, 2009 • View Comments

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 [...]

APEX in the Cloud

By Jake • Published on March 12th, 2009 • View Comments

This post about running APEX in the cloud by Jason Straub came across OraNA last week.
I’m surprised Chet didn’t pounce on it, being the APEX devotee that he is. Basically, you can now run APEX on Amazon EC2 for 60 cents.
Oracle has recently been rolling out more offerings with AWS, including database and backup images [...]

On OraTweet and OpenSocial

By Jake • Published on July 24th, 2008 • View Comments

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 more popular than [...]