Right after I posted yesterday’s Part 1, I decided to try out the Oracle public yum server over at public-yum.oracle.com. I had pinged Justin over the weekend and his contact had pointed me there, and it turns out the same suggestion was also kindly added to comments shortly after I published. After following the instructions there, [...]
The Word from the Web – 11/27/2009 As the holiday season officially begins, we’re thankful to find you still talking about this year’s Oracle OpenWorld. Many are taking the information they got at the Moscone Center and building upon it. Take a look at how these discussions have developed in our last Around the World [...]
I’ve managed to collect a handful of geeky projects lately. First, my move to Ubuntu 9.10 got fast-tracked. After the rocky move from 8.10 to 9.04, I figured I’d wait a bit on Karmic. But, last week, my drive filled up due to my backup package erroneously writing backups locally instead of to my backup [...]
Photo by xmatt on Flickr used under Creative Commons Paul, Rich and Chet are big fans of Jason Fried, the founder of 37 Signals. Although I’ve happily used several of their apps (Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire), until recently, I had never read their company blog, Signal vs. Noise, which frequently has interesting observations from Friend, DHH [...]
Photo by davidseth on Flickr used under Creative Commons Since last week’s post on the interwebs and fear, a couple other un-related posts have come across my reader that have me pondering the future of our beloved intertubes. First was Chris (#mrhashtag) Messina on “The death of the URL“, followed by Tim “What is Web [...]
Here’s another installment in the “we’re-a-for-reals-product-team” series. If you’re interested in WebCenter, but don’t have the time or resources to download, install and configure it on your own to kick the tires, you should sign up for a WebCenter Test Drive. Basically, the test drive will give you a hosted sandbox environment where you’ll have [...]
Rhonda Nelson, Senior Usability Engineer, Applications User Experience Ultan Ó Broin, Director, User Experience The Oracle Applications User Experience (Apps-UX) team recently facilitated a focus group of mobile device users to understand how messages1, alerts2, and help3 (user assistance) for business applications on smartphones should be designed. An initial survey about user assistance on mobile [...]
A Brief Note of Gratitude to Our Readers Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the U.S., a day where we gather with friends and families to appreciate the large and small gifts that we get to enjoy every day. While we’re sharing these moments, we wanted to let you, our loyal readers, know that we’re glad [...]
Nishant just posted a blog asking "Can OAuth do what SPML hasn't?" in particular in regards to "federated provisioning". Just to make sure everyone understands what we are talking about – let's use an example use case where federated provisioning could be required:Acme Medical Tools has entered an agreement with an online CRM provider. The [...]
Security solutions that are poorly designed and difficult to use don’t work, if security presents a significant hurdle for user adoption, it simply won’t get used and people will just workaround it. With this in mind, I had an excellent meeting this week with a customer interested in Oracle IRM. Right from the start they [...]