Quick Review of jQuery Date/Time Widgets

Once again I find myself browsing around for a better javascript calendar tool. I’m particularly looking for jQuery support, the ability to handle both date and time entry, and — being post-iPhone/Android/iPad 2010 — I’m concerned about making sure it is finger friendly (i.e. it works on a touch screen). The table below summarises my [...]

B.E.P. to Headline OpenWorld Customer Appreciation Event

So, this is interesting. Justin (@oracletechnet) reported last week that the Black Eyed Peas will be headlining the OpenWorld appreciation event, which is held on Treasure Island and always includes a live concert. This is definitely a departure in musical guests from the previous appreciation event headliners. See if you can find a pattern. 2009: [...]

How to Take a Screenshot in Android

I actually like the big old clock widget So, the iPhone OS has had the ability to take a screenshot since 2.0, simply hold down the sleep and home buttons for a couple seconds, and click, you’ve got a screenshot. This is a great feature, and one lacking from Android’s base OS, i.e. there’s no [...]

Watching people shop

I’ve been a long time Amazon customer, but a while ago I stumbled upon The Book Depository in the UK. Not only are their prices competitive with Amazon (especially when you consider the free shipping), but I was totally sucked in by their live “Watch people shop” widget – a very cool Google maps mashup. [...]

More Fun with Twitter Lists

Right, wrong or indifferent, we all use the following and followers metrics to make quick judgements about a person’s reputation, and now, Twitter has provided another dimension, the listed metric. This added dimension provides a much needed, albeit flawed, way to determine a user’s mojo. I use mojo here loosely to represent a user’s authority, [...]

The Pyramid of Customers’ User Experience Issues at COLLABORATE09

Jeremy Ashley, Vice President, Applications User Experience with Misha Vaughan, Architect, Applications User Experience I managed to leave a rainy San Francisco only to get wetter in the humidity of Orlando, Florida. The conference was spread out across the exceptionally large Orange County Conference Center. This year the Applications User Experience team was running a [...]

Enhanced Worklist Will Be Part of New Oracle Enterprise Software

Kathy Miedema, Oracle Applications User Experience Oracle’s Worklist features are being enhanced for the next generation of business enterprise software. A Worklist describes tasks that require a manager or other employee to intervene and complete, says Carmen D’Arlach, a design architect for Oracle’s Analytics User Experience. A Worklist helps customers organize and route their tasks [...]

New Features on my blog

Today I have added a CHAT widget to my blog. I will be online from time to time and then you can chat with me directly on my blog. You are also free to enter my public chatroom Also I have added archives and recent comments into the sidebar. Hope you like it. =;-) Link to the [...]

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, [...]

New Stuff (2) x01 and friends

So I mentioned in my last post one of my favorite new features in Application Express 3.1 was being able to pass temporary values to OnDemand process, and I showed an example using x01. Of course passing one value is useful but not as useful as passing 10-13 of them so lets meet the rest. [...]