Category: general

Sometimes I get ideas in my head that I can’t shake until I execute them, like last week when I suddenly decided I would give Windows 8 another try, after reading Jakob Nielsen’s review of the OS. I know, counterintuitive, given the review. Somewhere about halfway through that process, another idea wiggled into my head,… Read More

Evan Roth’s Angry Birds All Levels is an art exhibit showing the ink tracings of the finger swipes required to complete all the levels of Angry Birds. From Science Gallery: [Angry Birds All Levels] comments on the rise of casual gaming, identity and our relationship with mobile devices. Consisting of 300 sheets of tracing paper… Read More

I’m working through a Windows 8 upgrade right now and plan to report back on that after it finishes. In the meantime, I wanted to share some recent newsworthy items from my new team, Applications User Experience. Introducing the New Face of Fusion Applications At OpenWorld 2012, the Apps UX team showed off a new… Read More

If you’ve used Google Reader for a long time, like I have, this is huge news. Google adds ability to download Latitude and Google Reader data from Takeout data porting center A year ago, Google revamped Reader’s UI and removed the sharing features in favor of G+ sharing. I’d been using Reader shares for several… Read More

This comic from Matt Inman, a.k.a. the Oatmeal (@theoatmeal) is delightfully insightful. Some thoughts and musing about making things for the web I toyed with some cool adverbs to add to insightful, e.g. surprisingly, inspiringly, but they all seemed to cheapen his work. So, I chose delightfully because everything is better with a side of… Read More

You’re probably familiar with the term big data, which tends to be difficult to define precisely, but always pertains to the analysis of huge data sets. Over beers with my pal Rick (@turoczy) earlier this week, I used the term little data to describe the potential I see for Internet of Things. After some discussion… Read More

Netflix continues to feed my obsession with documentaries, and I finished “Objectified” over the weekend. Objectified is the second installment in Gary Hutswit’s design trilogy, the sequel to “Helvetica” and the prequel to “Urbanized.” I really enjoyed Helvetica, and so watching Objectified was an easy call. Objectified focuses on industrial design and includes commentary from… Read More

As of today, I’ve joined Jeremy Ashley’s Applications User Experience team. I’m sure many of you are familiar with Apps UX and the work they do, and I’m excited to join the likes of Erika (@erikanollwebb), Misha, Ultan (@ultan) and the many other very smart people that comprise that organization. My role is pretty loosely-defined and will evolve over… Read More

Noel (@noelportugal) shared some high-level details of his Halloween project for this year, as well as video. From chatting with him, I know there’s SMS in there somewhere, but I don’t know much else. Stay tuned for details.

I’m sharing this as a historical record for myself and to help anyone facing the nebulous wifi connectivity issues that have irritated Macbook Pro owners for several years. The short summary of the problem is that since I bought my MBP last year, the wifi has been spotty. With Lion, anything with internet connectivity would… Read More

For your reading enjoyment today, over the weekend, or whenever, I give you some tidbits I found on the interwebs. WebCenter goodies To help you plan for mobile development, Friend of the ‘Lab John Brunswick (@johnbrunswick) has a detailed roundup of the various options for WebCenter: Mobile Development Platform Strategy Chart – ADF Mobile, WebCenter… Read More

After a flood of content after OpenWorld, I decided to take a brief respite here. This post is a collection of miscellany that may or may not interest you. Among other things, I’ve been tackling the nagging wifi issue my Macbook Pro has. On that front, I decided to call Apple Care to get their… Read More

On the Saturday before OpenWorld, Noel (@noelportugal) attended a Raspberry Pi meetup at Noisebridge. As you may have guessed by now, Noel has become something of an evangelist for the Raspi and like any good maker, wanted to see what others have done with the little powerhouse. On Sunday, he showed me a video of… Read More

Dimitri Gielis (@dgielis), who, along with Martin D’Souza (@martindsouza), won the Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge we ran at OpenWorld, has detailed the integration he and Martin built between Oracle Social Network and Oracle Applications Express, a.k.a. APEX. Check out his post for more and see his code on GitHub if you’re so inclined. After the Challenge ended,… Read More

I love watching documentaries, and Netflix feeds that pastime nicely. Over the past few months, “Indie Game: The Movie” has been bouncing around my head. I’d heard of it by way of several blogs I read, and I nearly bought it from iTunes to watch on a plane ride. This weekend, I saw it was… Read More

I’ve covered all the entries we had for the Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge, the winners, Dimitri and Martin, HarQen, TEAM Informatics and John Sim from Fishbowl Solutions, and today, I’m giving you bonus coverage. Friend of the ‘Lab, Bex Huff (@bex) from Bezzotech (@bezzotech), had an interesting OpenWorld. He rebounded from an allergic reaction to… Read More

Today, I give you the final entry in the Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge, held last week during OpenWorld. This one comes from Friend of the ‘Lab and Fishbowl Solutions (@fishbowle20) hacker, John Sim (@jrsim_uix), whom you might remember from his XBox Kinect demo at COLLABORATE 12 (presentation slides and abstract) hacks and other exploits with… Read More

Here comes another Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge entry, this one courtesy of TEAM Informatics (@teaminformatics). As their name suggests, their entry was a true team effort, featuring the work of Jon Chartrand, Deepthi Sanikommu, Dmitry Shtulman, Raghavendra Joshi, and Daniel Stitely with Wayne Boerger doing the presentation honors. Speaking of the presentation, Wayne’s laptop wouldn’t project… Read More