It’s a slow week at work as most of the people are on vacation. So you might be wondering what to do with your extra free time. Here is one option – catch up with some new blogs out there that cover JDeveloper and ADF. Here are some of the latest additions since my last [...]
You know there are too many labor-saving devices in the world when you see the sheer number of professional do-gooders trying to solve problems hardly anybody else worries about. If you have a day job, having someone with too much free time tell you why you need to be concerned about “Making the World Better [...]
After spending the majority of the weekend puttering around my working garden, I find myself wondering how many of you DIY whenever you can. I have a theory that people who like hacking around with tech and starting numerous side projects in their free time also generally like doing meat-life projects themselves too. Long ago, I was [...]
This blog is full of work-hacking lately. Along those lines, Paul passed along an interesting post by Paul Graham that discusses the differences between schedules of makers and managers and how to account for them when scheduling meetings. Photo by NikiSublime from Flickr used under Creative Commons In short, one reason makers (i.e. developers or [...]
I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s blog for many years. He is a ‘marketing’ person, with a lot of good old fashioned common sense. I agree with most of what he writes – and he just did a longish post (for Seth Godin it was long). It was on Slack. His two points in these unique [...]
[[blogger.com has been working just fine. Do not adjust your dial. This is my first post since September. I've been spending my free time reviewing an Oracle SOA book (more on that later), remembering how bad I am at Linear Algebra, and working out (ugh)]]At Zirous we do a fair amount of local, state, and [...]