Ever need to try some simple CSS tweaks on an existing website? I needed to do something like that again recently, and a little hack I used to do the job just turned into the CSSZenBanger. CSSZenBanger is a simple tool for previewing style modifications on an existing web site—mainly intended for web designers who [...]
This one started as an OTN how-to question that seemed like something that should work automatically – turns out you need a couple of small tweaks to get it working. The idea is to have a table on a page showing multiple records, you can click any row in the table – and get a [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]