I’m going to try an experiment on all of you. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt, much. I’ve just installed Panels, which is a newly launched beta service, on this blog. Panels adds, well, panels to your blog links. From their blog: With the addition of panels to your site/blog your readers are given all the… Read More
Tag: blogs
!$title$! É um bug
Or at least that’s what Google Translate says “it’s a bug” means in Portuguese. So, maybe you noticed recently that this blog and others produced a feed item or a couple called “!$title$!”. I believe this is a bug associated with WordPress 2.6 because the timing coincided with our upgrade to 2.6. Plus, several blogs… Read More
Connect as a Blogging Tool
Since we started down this road last year launching Connect to go with the IdeaFactory, one common ask has been blogs. Blogs are a cornerstone of Web 2.0, allowing anyone to publish content and anyone to participate. We discussed very early on whether we should provide a blogging platform, like multi-user WordPress or MoveableType, for… Read More
Making Your Blog Faster and Greener
I’ve been meaning to blog this for a while now. On June 6 at Beer and Blog here in Portland, Jason Grigsby gave an informal talk about how to make your website/blog faster and therefore greener. Sounds a bit like voodoo, but the logic is sound. Cheap and plentiful broadband and iron have made website… Read More
Running Water or Cell Service?
Puneet has a great post called “Cell Phones Leapfrog Drinking Water” over on his personal blog. The juxaposition in this picture sums it up nicely. Great stuff. Check out his blog. I enjoy what he has to say and would like to keep him blogging.
Because We Care
Here at the ‘Lab, we listen to you. When you wanted more, we gave you more. So, when I got a suggestion from Jim, I listened. Jim wanted us to provide email subscriptions to this blog, like Steven Chan does, so that he could stay informed when new content is available, on his terms. This… Read More
Puneet Strikes Again
The final installment in my “cool stuff from last week that I forgot to blog” series comes from our pal Puneet. He used our Google Reader OPML files (published on the About page) and his own to demonstrate three ways to view the subscriptions without a messy import into Reader or another feed reader. Behold… Read More
David’s Excellent Adventure
Another blog-worthy happening from last week was a long chat I had with David. He, and our friends over at TalentedApps and Financials Strategy are a few of the people who have taken the blogging plunge to share the knowledge locked away in their heads. David and I talked about some of the cool side-effects… Read More
PeopleSoft Tech Blog
This must have slipped our radar — Jeff Robbins and his crew of PeopleTools experts started a blog back in October last year. However, looks like they need some traffic sent their way. There are a few other PeopleSoft related blogs out there. Here are some that pop into mind: Jim’s PeopleSoft Journal — Jim… Read More
New Oracle Digg Clone
Matt Topper, a friend of the ‘Lab, launched an Oracle Digg clone on Friday at ora-click.com. He’s using Pligg, an Open Source Digg clone, as the backend, with a nice 2.0-style front end. I could live without the ads, but I know power/ping/pipe aren’t free. We toyed with Pligg a while back when we were… Read More
It’s That Time of Year
To usher out 2007, it’s time to do the retrospective. Cue the music. Looking back on this past year elicits “wow” moments for me. This time last year, I worked in a different team, Fusion Financials Strategy; I was neck-deep in the requirements for Secure Enterprise Search integration into Apps. I lived in a different… Read More
Imitation as Flattery
Steve Chan sent me a note today asking me if I’d seen this blog, called Oracle Applications DBA APPSLab. Apparently, the blog’s owner, Famy Rasheed, was asking Steve to list his new blog on Steve’s blogroll. Steve is a very conscientious (and popular) blogger, who has been plagiarized in the past, so he was doing… Read More
Publish Your Blog to Twitter
I’ve noticed that a lot of people use Twitter to promote their blogs and the blogs of their colleagues and friends. Twitter is a social network, so this is expected behavior. I find myself clicking on the TinyURLs in tweets out of curiosity more often than not. A tweet like this one from James Governor… Read More
More on the Blog Council
Following my post Friday on the newly minted Blog Council, I got a response in comments from Andy Sernovitz, who runs the overseeing authority of the council, GasPedal. Apparently, they reached out to Oracle and Sun when the council was formed. Anyway, joining the council falls under Justin’s jurisdiction, not mine. I’m just a blogger.… Read More
2.0 Support Groups: Blog Council
So, thanks to Twitter, I found out that a bunch of big companies started the Blog Council, this week. As background, some of the people I follow on Twitter work for or are linked by relationship to SAP, and SAP is one of the member companies of the Council. As noted previously on this blog,… Read More
More Apps Blogs
By way of Justin, it seems that Jeremy Ashley and his team are now blogging about Applications user experience at usableapps. They’ve launched a full site around user experience, including design and research articles. I expect they’ll get a lot of comments and traffic, since everyone has an opinion about UI. It leaves a lasting… Read More
AppsLab Interviewed by The Feature
Marian Crkon writes The Feature, an E-Business Suite focused blog that also sometimes features the written styling of our pal, Floyd. You can find The Feature at the always entertaining URL, itsafeature.com, which alludes to its authors backgrounds as consultants. Coincidentally, another guest writer for The Feature is Nancy Chung, who wrote a piece on… Read More
Welcome Two (Now Four) More Bloggers
OpenWorld followed by Thanksgiving have really put a damper on my blogging, but today, my plan is to get back on track. First off, I want to welcome two new bloggers to the blogosphere. Part of my job is getting Oracle people comfortable with blogging and encouraging them to start blogs. It’s a tough cultural… Read More
Back from OpenWorld
Sure, I got back from OpenWorld last Thursday, but I’m only now willing to get back in the saddle and blog about it. As I mentioned to a few of the Enterprise Irregulars who attended, OpenWorld is a marathon. Imagine a full day sessions, quietly sitting and listening, tons of walking around San Francisco, meeting… Read More
A Can of Worms
If there was any remaining doubt that this blog has slipped into Seinfeld territory, I am sealing the deal by blogging about the comments on a seemingly innocent post from Friday called “Bloggers at OpenWorld“. The issue at hand is about providing recompense for time lost/expenses incurred for attendees. Here are the arguments in no… Read More