OpenWorld Tidbits

Photo by good friend Eddie Awad from Flickr used under Creative Commons A couple items of note heading into OpenWorld. Current students can get into JavaOne and Oracle Develop for free.  There are a few qualifications: You must be enrolled in an accredited nonprofit institutions of learning during the Fall semester/quarter of 2010, taking a [...]

Square is Very Cool and Super Useful

You’ve probably heard about Square (@square) by now. I mentioned it last week apropos of Alex Payne’s (@al3x) departure from Twitter; Square is the brainchild of Jack Dorsey (@jack), one of Twitter’s cofounders. Some of the Square team was at Google IO (@googleio) last week, and I had a chance to chat with them and get my [...]

Oracle Begins Beta Testing For New "Oracle Application Express Developer Certified Expert" Certification

Video for Oracle’s new Oracle Application Express Developer Certified Expert certification. (3:28)

Re: deploying ViewController project, problem with: OrdHttpResponseHandler

Hi, in this case I think its better to check the JHeadstart forum here on OTN. I’ve not seens this eror messages in my deployments so far. Frank

Surround Yourself with Smart People

Photo by edwaado on Flickr used under Creative Commons In a matter of days, the AppsLab will turn three years old. Coincidentally, I’ve been reminded lately just how smart the people around me. So, indulge me for a few hundred words as I brag about my team. The sense of deja vu has been heavy [...]

Surround Yourself with Smart People

Photo by edwaado on Flickr used under Creative Commons In a matter of days, the AppsLab will turn three years old. Coincidentally, I’ve been reminded lately just how smart the people around me. So, indulge me for a few hundred words as I brag about my team. The sense of deja vu has been heavy [...]

Software is Hard

Photo by jared on Flickr used under Creative Commons I’m convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is great for enterprise software. I’m similarly convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is terrible for enterprise software. Reading Marc Benioff’s post “The Facebook Imperative” on TechCrunch last week reminded me of [...]

Launched: CloudJetty – a community guide to the latest "cloud" services and applications on the web

Time to drop the cloak of stealth from a new web application I’ve had in production for the past month or two.. CloudJetty is a site born from my own frustration in trying to find out what was really available in terms of business applications and services delivered “in the cloud”. How do you find [...]

Learning from Buzz

In life if something doesn’t work out, at least you can learn from it.  That is the power of doing.  The beauty of being a human being is that we are exceptionally good at learning from others.  As I watched Google launch Buzz, and the ensuing mess, it got me thinking.  Why did a project [...]

And Now, Google the ISP

So, Google has been busy announcing products this week. Lost in the Buzz news was this bit that Google is planning to build its own high-speed fiber network. Mmm, fiber. Their goals are: We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll [...]