Buzz and excitement can leave you all tingly and panting to implement lots of cool Web 2.0 tools within the enterprise. But decisions made while buzzed and excited often have interesting results. And by interesting I mean things like weird late-night phone calls and unexplained tattoos.
Over the last several weeks I've been on the receiving end of a few emails and other messages from people who are less than pleased with the migration of blog content from the BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch sites. Much of this frustration...
I've spend a significant portion of the last decade reading and editing what other people have written about software. While the people doing the writing are smart and know their technical stuff up, down, and inside-out, their writing can sometimes be... informative. And by "informative" I mean dry enough to drain a swamp. Not so with William Vanbenepe.
Given the migration of a sizable herd of BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch bloggers to blogs.oracle.com (notice I didn't say "a herd of sizable bloggers") , I thought I'd reuse (that is, steal) an idea from Jake over at AppsLab and set up a game of blog tag as way to introduce these bloggers to the OTN community.
As a former BEA Arch2Arch blogger, I am selectively migrating posts from my old blog to this shiny new one. I'm using Live Writer to do this, which allows me to assign the original publication dates when republishing old posts....
In the last couple of days I have responded to several emails from Oracle-acquired BEA people who noticed that this blog is now live, and want to set up their own OTN blogs. In the hope that I can head...
After a very long wait I've finally been able to set up my OTN blog. Still tweaking the layout and widgets, but I'm in business, baby....
If you're a D2D/A2A blogger and you've been using Windows Live Writer to compose and manage your posts, migrating old posts to a new blog can be a heck of a lot easier than, say, removing your own tonsils. This...
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