You Got Your AppsLab in My WebCenter

A few weeks ago, I announced that our team was moving to WebCenter development.
Since then, several people have asked what our role would be specifically, many of you in person at OpenWorld. Now, I can tell you, since I finally know for sure.

We’ve been charged with the internal rollout of WebCenter 11g, which, we’re hoping, [...]

Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K

So, we had some downtime overnight, not sure anyone noticed.

Rich and I decided to make a couple tweaks to make the blog load faster. I removed Google Friend Connect, which didn’t seem to do much beyond create a static network with some infrequent discussion. I expect future changes to GFC that might be interesting, so [...]

Notes about tracing from the Collboration Summit

A bit late, but nevertheless…
These are some notes I took at the Collab Summit in San Francisco. I posted these notes already on the systemtap mailing list, but I thought they are worth of a blog entry.
Some of the slides, not all of them, are here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides
Our tracing session went well, I think it was [...]

New Gcc-4.4.0 almost ready

The new gcc-4.4.0 is in the final stabilization phase and should be released shortly. I asked our team member Paolo Carlini what is new in this gcc release. Here is what he says:

If everything goes well a few week from now gcc4.4.0 will be released by the GNU Compiler Collection Project. The number of open [...]

BPEL : The effect of deliveryPersistPolicy

Oracle BPEL has a number of knobs you can tweak to improve performance, one of the easiest tweaks is the deliveryPersistPolicy parameter.
This parameter determines whether the delivery messages, entering BPEL, are persisted. That is when you call a BPEL process an row is inserted into the BPEL repository, and response is given to the client. [...]