And now back to the Apple Watch content. If you’ve read here for a while, you might remember we used to be part of the WebCenter development team, and we worked with Oracle Social Network, affectionately OSN. We even ran a developer challenge for OSN at OpenWorld back in 2012. Yesterday, longtime friend of the… Read More

So, if you read Part 1, you’re all up to speed. If not, no worries. You might be a bit lost, but if you care, you can bounce over and come back for the thrilling conclusion. I first showed the Taleo Interview Evaluation Glass app and Android app at a Taleo and HCM Cloud customer expo… Read More

Sometimes, I get to share something awesome. A post about how Oracle Social Network can be used by Oracle ERP Cloud users happens to be something awesome. Let me explain. Despite assumptions to the contrary, accounting is a very collaborative exercise in many enterprises. Ultan (@ultan) does a great job explaining why in his post… Read More

As Anthony (@anthonyslai) mentioned yesterday, we’ve been experimenting with his new toy, Google Glass. It’s our job as a research team to investigate emerging technologies and explore how they might affect the users of Fusion Applications in the near and long-term future. So, don’t get ahead of yourself, this is a research project, not product.… Read More

I’ll be at Collaborate 13 this year. If you read here, you probably know what Collaborate is, but just in case, it’s a mega-conference co-organized by three Oracle users groups, the OAUG (@oaug1), IOUG (@ioug) and Quest (@questusergroup). If you’re not into acronyms, that’s Oracle Applications Users Group and International Oracle Users Group. Oh, and Quest is the international users group for… Read More

Friend of the ‘Lab Bex Huff (@bex) is running an interesting experiment. He’s soliciting ideas for the deep dive he and Bezzotech will be giving at Collaborate 2013, which is April 7-11 in Denver. This session will be on Sunday of the show, hosted by the IOUG’s WebCenter Special Interest Group. I like this idea because… 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

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

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

I teased this before OpenWorld, and for those of you who didn’t make it to the show or didn’t come by the Office Hours to take the Oracle Social Network Technical Tour Noel (@noelportugal) ran, I give you the Flying Monkey Smart Target. In brief, Noel built a target, about two feet tall, which when… Read More

Yesterday, I told you about the Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge we’ll be hosting at OpenWorld (@oracleopenworld) next week. If you’re attending OpenWorld or JavaOne (@javaoneconf) and want to get hands-on experience with Oracle Social Network and show off your coding chops, this is the event for you. Go ahead and register. I’ll wait. But wait,… Read More

Noel (@noelportugal) and I have been working on something new for OpenWorld (@oracleopenworld) for quite some time, and today, I got the final approvals to go ahead with the Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge. The skinny. The Challenge is a modified hackathon, designed to run during OpenWorld and JavaOne (@javaoneconf), and attendees of both conferences are welcome to join and… Read More

I’ve been mum about our plans for OpenWorld, but that should change this week, fingers crossed. Noel (@noelportugal) posted a picture today, and I figured I’d share it as a teaser for those of you attending the show who might be interested to see what we’ll be doing. If you read here, you’ll know that… Read More

After a quiet Summer during which I hear he was busy getting married, Friend of the ‘Lab John Sim (@jrsim_uix) of Fishbowl Solutions (@fishbowle20) has unleashed a torrent of good technical posts over on his C4 blog. The four c’s are content, context, collaboration and community, if you’re wondering about the blog’s name. ADF WebCenter… Read More

Peter (@peterreiser) alerted me to a new feature of Google Chrome. Starting in Chrome 21, the browser will no longer allow installation of extensions via the .crx file. Instead, you’ll get a message that extensions can only be installed from the Chrome Web Store. This is a bummer if you have an extension you built… Read More

I just realized that friend of the ‘Lab, John Brunswick (@johnbrunswick) has a webcast tomorrow, an installment in the Oracle Social Business Thought Leader Webcast Series, called 6 Counterintuitive Best Practices for Social Collaboration Adoption. If you’re familiar with John and his work, you’ll know he’s not only an expert, but he’s a really nice guy. Check… Read More

While Noel (@noelportugal) is off exploring South America on the OTN Latin America Tour, I too had a conference, just across the river, the annual conference of the Northwest Oracle Users Group (NWOUG), here in beautiful Portland, Oregon. NWOUG represents Oracle users in Washington and Oregon, with some members hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, Idaho and… Read More

Over the years, this blog has been dominated by yours truly. For better or for worse, I account for nearly 90% of the posts here. I’m hoping to change that over the coming months by offering (read begging) some Friends of the ‘Lab to let me repost some of their best content here and ideally,… Read More