Author: Rich Manalang

T-minus 7 days (August 26th)… until my final day at Oracle, that is. tl;dr; On January 6, 1997, I launched my career in enterprise software with PeopleSoft. I spent my early days traveling around the US, Canada, and Australia as a PeopleSoft consultant, implementing PeopleSoft HR/Benefits/Payroll. I even wrote some COBOL, however, you won’t find… Read More

I have a self-diagnosed, self-proclaimed disability that doesn’t exist in any clinical textbooks (I think… not that I’m an expert). I call this disability Attention Overload Disorder (AOD). Don’t bother looking it up — it doesn’t exist outside of my head. Although, I think there are a lot of people like me (probably including Jake… Read More

<scratched><itch id=”twitter” class=”mine own”/></scratched> As much as I like dedicated Twitter clients, it seems wrong to me.  I would much prefer a better experience on twitter.com, but since that hasn’t happened and is likely not going to happen (at least in the near future), @anthonyslai and I decided to take things into our own hands… Read More

Sorry for the lame title.  This is just a quick note about Swype, the much hyped slide-your-finger-to-type keyboard that got a lot of buzz in 2008 at the TC50. Since I saw the demo a few years ago, I’ve always been intrigued by how awesome it would be to be able to type fast on… Read More

Getting tired of all the EVO/Android/iPhone love Jake’s been spewing lately? How about something a bit more dry and developery?  As promised in a prior post, here’s a more technical writeup of how I built the WebCenter sharing bookmarklet.  I was hesitant to write about this because it’s not like writing a bookmarklet is new… Read More

Fresh out of @twitter’s oven is @anywhere, one of the big features they announced recently.  The service is now live at http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere.  @jkuramot and I (@rmanalan) just implemented it on this blog.  To see it in action, hover over any of the @twitter names.

In an IM conversation I had with Paul this morning, I decided to embark on an experiment. I’ve decided to drop out of all things social (online) for a few weeks. This includes Twitter, Buzz, Facebook, blogging, etc. The only thing this doesn’t include is email and IM — those are essential. My online activities… Read More

It’s been a few days since Google Buzz was born and it’s time for an AppsLabber to review it, so here are my thoughts. Day one It was a lonely experience — akin to showing up to a party you knew was going to be fun, but you ended being one of the first ones… Read More

I need to watch what I say when I’m with Jake, else I’ll be asked to blog… what a chore 🙂 Anyway, just a few thoughts from last week’s craziness known as #oow… Congrats to Raimonds Simanovskis for winning the coveted Oracle Developer of the Year award.  Raimonds’ is known in the Ruby and Rails… Read More

When I first saw Google Wave, it was like experiencing a messiah. For a web/tech geek, @larsras‘ and @twephanie‘s 80+ min demo was a spiritual affair that I’ll probably remember for the rest of my life [in software].  I even spread the love on this blog. After Google I/O (where Google Wave had it’s coming… Read More

Just testing out a collaborative sudoku gadget from Google Wave. Update: you’ll only see this if you have a Google Wave account. 7 invites left. First 7 to comment gets an invite! Update: All my (Jake’s) invitations are gone, not sure where Rich is with his batch. Also, the Wave script seems to be borked.… Read More

Jake and I have grown tired over our bland red, black, and white theme.  I finally had a bit of time to carry out a simple redesign.  Here it is.  We wanted something super simple that was easy on eyes and had a nice font.  To spruce it up a bit, I added some drop… Read More

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,… Read More

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… Read More

I’m finally fed up with all the standards based, open source browser, google chrome-whatchamacallit, firefox, safari bs crap.  I don’t want choice in browsers anymore.  Especially since my ERP apps works better in IE than in any of the other crappy browsers out there. So, today, I’m switching back to the browser who made the… Read More

Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy) – (37signals) How can you apply Getting Real-ish ideas inside a big company? Here’s an idea: Go rogue. Pick something and do it under the radar. Create something in a few weeks that normally takes a few months. Do something in a way that works… Read More