Facebook Lists and the Enterprise

This article on TechCrunch reminds me of how much I dislike enterprise systems that require you to recreate many of the relationships that are inherent in an organization using constructs that are available and remain unused in many popular consumer social sites. Tonight at a Facebook Developer’s Garage meeting at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, [...]

Facebook Lists and the Enterprise

This article on TechCrunch reminds me of how much I dislike enterprise systems that require you to recreate many of the relationships that are inherent in an organization using constructs that are available and remain unused in many popular consumer social sites. Tonight at a Facebook Developer’s Garage meeting at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, [...]

Facebook Lists and the Enterprise

This article on TechCrunch reminds me of how much I dislike enterprise systems that require you to recreate many of the relationships that are inherent in an organization using constructs that are available and remain unused in many popular consumer social sites. Tonight at a Facebook Developer’s Garage meeting at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, [...]

Oracle Database SQL Expert (1Z0-047)…

I can see this post degenerating into a rant, so I would like to preemptively appologize to anyone involved in the production of this exam. I’m guessing it’s a real pain to develop these exams, especially when some ass like me starts moaning about them. Added to that, I’m guessing the word “Expert” means slightly [...]

Programming for specific device platforms

The goal of the ADF Mobile Client framework is to provide you with a framework where you can develop your applications once and deploy them to any platform.  We understand that there are differences between platforms that sometimes requires some platform specific operations and conditions.  Here’s how you do it: In your pages: To do [...]

Oracle E-Business Suite Platform Smörgåsbord

Yes, we have a Smörgåsbord!One of the definitions of smörgåsbord is “a set of a great number of opportunities to combine.”  This brief article (corresponding to my entrance into the world of blogging) describes the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) platform smörgåsbord.  While ‘platform’ can mean different things to different people, here it means an “operating [...]

Conversations were center at DIDW

My Digital ID World was all about conversations. Much more useful to me than the sessions was the opportunity to brainstorm with some very smart, very committed (some insanely so) people in the identity community. The sessions were good, and some managed to inspire some original thought. But the hallway conversations (so to speak) were [...]

Directories vs. Virtual Directories? Really?

Still picking my jaw up off the floor from this comment from Alex @ the ApacheDS project on Jeff Bohren’s blog. Seems Dave Kearns noticed it as well. So for those of you worried that Jeff and I might never agree on anything, you can put your worries to rest. Jeff’s response is right on [...]

Directories vs. Virtual Directories? Really?

Still picking my jaw up off the floor from this comment from Alex @ the ApacheDS project on Jeff Bohren’s blog. Seems Dave Kearns noticed it as well. So for those of you worried that Jeff and I might never agree on anything, you can put your worries to rest. Jeff’s response is right on [...]

Directories vs. Virtual Directories? Really?

Still picking my jaw up off the floor from this comment from Alex @ the ApacheDS project on Jeff Bohren’s blog. Seems Dave Kearns noticed it as well. So for those of you worried that Jeff and I might never agree on anything, you can put your worries to rest. Jeff’s response is right on [...]