Another pair of iPhone apps came to my attention today, making it four for the week, and it just so happens one is brought to you by Oracle.
Oracle Business Approvals for Managers
Steven Chan put me on to this one, which looks like an iPhone app that surfaces a lot of the worklist notifications EBS users [...]
Now that the dust has fully settled on OpenWorld 2008, it’s probably time to start planning next year’s iteration.
Justin and I spoke recently with the people who manage the Blogger Program to debrief about the event, how the program was received and ways to improve it for next year.
If you read that sentence carefully, you [...]
While Jake is busy working on his super secret project he’s asked me to fill the rambling spot for him. Hopefully, I can make this a regular place to spout my technolutionary thoughts.
In a previous life I did a lot of work with Oracle’s Location and Spatial products. There really is nothing like putting a [...]
So now OpenWorld 2008 is over, and San Franciscans rejoice as Howard Street reopens between 3rd and 4th, or at least it will soon.
I missed my Wednesday recap, since we spent Thursday sequestered in that same old conference room in Pleasanton. Not a lot happened for me on Wednesday.
Rich and I trolled the exhibit floors [...]
Tuesday was a lighter schedule for me, but not without its drama.
My geek-speak Unconference session, which continues to bounce around Indian blogs, was at 10 AM, and I arrived in the room 40 minutes in advance, JIC. Good thing because I had forgotten the Mini DVI-VGA adapter for my Macbook.
For those who haven’t run into [...]
As is typical for me, the Monday of OpenWorld was the busiest. Now that it’s over, I can relax a bit. Yesterday was an action-packed day, so let’s hit the highlights. Roll the tape.
Our official session “Web 2.0 Technologies In the Enterprise: Lessons Learned, Tips, and Tricks from Oracle AppsLab” went pretty well. I’m not [...]
Rather than blog the events of an entire day, I’ve decided to dump my thoughts periodically.
This is more effective for me anyway, since to remember anything lately, I feel like I need to forget something else. So, a memory dump will happen eventually, better (or worse, depending) to get it recorded before the inevitable happens.
Here [...]
To avoid overlapping with Larry’s keynote on Wednesday afternoon, as promised, I have rescheduled my Unconference session, “Are you insulting me? Essential geek-speak, FTW!” to Tuesday morning at 10 AM in Moscone West, 3rd floor, Overlook C.
If you’re interested, check out the slides on SlideShare.
If you make it, stop by and say hello.
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On my way to PDX, I caught this tweet from the OCP Advisor (aka Mohan Dutt):
Naturally intrigued, I clicked through on the link to find an “idea” from Debra Lilley called simply:
Get me out of this lift, please , stuck in lift #11 at the Marriott
Eagle-eyed users of Mix, namely John Bedford, an Oracle employee, [...]
By this time tomorrow, I’ll be winging my way to the Bay Area for OpenWorld.
One of the first things I need to do tomorrow is race to the Unconference onsite signups in Moscone West and move my Essential Geek-Speak session to a better time, like say one that doesn’t overlap with Larry’s keynote.
You may recall [...]
So, yet another last-minute OpenWorld announcement, but that’s how we roll. We’re going to host an informal hackathon at the OTN Lounge during the conference.
The OTN Lounge will be in Moscone West, Third Floor, coincidentally right near the Unconference sessions, which should work out well.
So, we’re calling it informal because Rich, Anthony and I will [...]
Justin teased this earlier in the month, and today, Oracle Listens took over oracle.com.
I’m glad they overcame the hiccups that initially postponed its launch, and I’m nervously waiting for a flood of email to hit our support distribution list.
If you read here, you’ll remember that we’ve shifted our focus to Connect, our internal social platform [...]
A few weeks ago, I huddled with Matt and Eddie to chat about how we could do some whizzy-social-2.0 stuff for OpenWorld this year.
The outcome was a lot of “this would be cool” and “just don’t have the time”. Well, Matt made some time anyway, and he’s soft-released Collok.com to help you manage your OpenWorld [...]
Inspired by Eddie, who blogged his schedule for next week, and others, I decided to wade into the OpenWorld show guide to set up my week.
I had planned to use the Schedule Builder, but I guess that’s not for employees. So, I started combing the Content Catalog and soon got a headache trying to read [...]
Late last week, we decided to do another session at the Unconference next week. Egad, is it that soon?
If you read here, you know we’ve been plugging away with OpenSocial for several months. Since we’re not a product, we’ve been able to do all our work on the Connect+OpenSocial project in the open. So, we [...]
So, I just finished my first cut at my slides for my OpenWorld Unconference session, which I’m tentatively calling, “Are you insulting me? Essential geek-speak, FTW!”.
If you’re interested, check them out and give me feedback, comments, keeping in mind my goal is to educate by example, not give a comprehensive history. And to have a [...]
The Unconference at OpenWorld continues to fill up; Tuesdays advance slot are all full, and Wednesday is quickly filling up too.
I noticed Raimonds added a session last week called “Using Ruby on Rails with legacy Oracle databases” on Thursday at 10 AM. If you’re still at the conference on Thursday, I highly recommend checking out [...]
Rich has finished a few more mockups of the changes we’re making to support OpenSocial.
Since our last episode, he’s finished the Profile page. Take a look.
One thing (other than location data, which will return soon, promise) people have been missing since we upgraded Connect to the Mix JRuby code line is status. More people than [...]
The SEO of blogs is so good.
The post I did a year ago about the wiki I started inside the firewall to collect iPhone tips and tricks still comes up in the top few results for the keywords “oracle iphone“.
That post is in the top five all time for us, based on traffic metrics.
It also [...]
If you’ve been away, welcome back, and by the way, I’ve been blogging our design process for the changes we need to make to support OpenSocial in Connect.
Today, Rich posted a few new mockups today of his vision for our Connect (and ultimately, Mix) OpenSocial UI.
The first mockup shows Rich’s vision for the OpenSocial app [...]
