For a few months now, I’ve been planning to write a post on how to get involved in your local tech scene. I caught a tweet from Matt earlier today. He was on his way to Startup Rockstars DC#3. Sounds like fun. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen me tweet about any… Read More
Month: October 2008
Find Paul at the Communities Exchange Summit
Paul will be one of the featured presenters at the 2008 Communities Exchange Summit, next week. His presentation is called “It’s Not About the Tools: How Oracle Builds Customer Communities”. There’s a teaser Q&A session posted, if you want more incentive. If you’re in San Jose next week and want to check it out, here’s… Read More
Is Simple the New Black?
Thanks to Matt for covering Geode. I have to agree with his assessment of location as awesomesauce when mixed with Intertubes. Continuing my mission to slog through all the unread feeds I have left over from the week of OpenWorld, I noticed an item from Mashable about the simple and elegant Umbrella Today? The concept… Read More
Location, location, location. It’s all about location..
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… Read More
ORA-01403:no data found
Curious? That seemed like a clever title, given the subject, and my lack of pithy title for the post. I’ll back up a bit. I’m still slogging through feeds from before OpenWorld, which is pretty tough considering Paul’s got me cranking hardcore on a new project. I plowed through Slashdot today and found an item… Read More
Why Flickr Rules, Part 2
Wow, after a slew of posts from other people, it’s back to just me. I’ve documented my affection for Flickr in the past. Recently, Rich put me on to another reason to love Flickr. Groups. While I was at OpenWorld, I was chatting with Rich about a little iPhone hobby I have. I like to… Read More
20% of My iPhone Apps Are Worthless
Our guest blogger, Matt Topper, is a friend of the Lab, an ex-Oracle Ace, turned Oracle employee who always has something to say. He’s currently running the identity management team for Oracle’s National Security group, playing with Collok in his free time to fix the conference experience. The other day Eddie tweeted that he was… Read More
While we’re talking about design…
I’m a code geek that likes to tinker with design and illustration. My weapon of choice is Xara Xtreme. Most people in this arena choose Adobe Illustrator, but Xara works for me. It’s also faster, easier to use, lighter and cheaper. The only drawback is that it’s Windoze-ware only. Actually, there is a Linux version… Read More
Adventures in Bad Design
I am a bit of a closet designer. No I don’t have the funky glasses, but I appreciate great design and get a good laugh at poor design. Sometimes I run across designs that I just don’t understand. Here are two of my recent gems: The first is this novel coffee mug from Delmonico’s Steakhouse… Read More