Recent Posts by Chris Muir

Use Oracle Mobile Cloud Service Sync Express offline data capabilities in your JavaScript mobile applications. By Chris Muir September/October 2017 Experiencing zero connectivity when you use mobile applications is exceedingly annoying, but a more frustrating experience might be connectivity that keeps dropping in and out, causing mobile apps to stutter and fail without an always-on data connection. Adding the ability for apps to cache data when connected, and rely on the cache...

Oracle product management in conjunction with the Australia-New-Zealand Mobile & Cloud Program team would like to invite Oracle partners to discover the exciting new area of Chatbots in a two day hands on workshop. Chatbots are computer programs that leverage human-like dialogue, along with artificial intelligence, to enable people to interact with an organisation in a more natural way – that is, as part of a conversation. Recent advancements in machine learning and the...

We have released a new YouTube video entitled Using SMS Services with Oracle Mobile Cloud Service as well as a hands-on tutorial.  The video and tutorial take you through the steps to configure MCS with 3rd party SMS service provider Syniverse. SMS messages may seem a bit old in the many ways we communicate with mobile users.  However unlike push notifications SMS messages can't be turned off, so as a result they are more likely to be viewed and acted upon.  As such in the...

Sometime back I blogged about New Oracle JET Articles, listing 5 articles for your reading pleasure, with a promise I'd provide an update when more articles became available.  Ah, yeah, about that. I kind of forgot! For Oracle JET to help you learn the basics we've subsequently expanded the article set to the following: Installing Oracle JET for JavaScript Web Development Installing Oracle JET for Hybrid-Mobile Application Development Understanding the Development Process With...

For anyone interested in Oracle JET, we continue to publish new articles on Dzone to help you familiarize yourself with JET's inner workings. The complete set of articles available to date are: Installing Oracle JET for JavaScript Web Development Installing Oracle JET for Hybrid-Mobile Application Development Understanding the Development Process With Oracle JET for Web and Mobile Working With RequireJS in Oracle JET Investigating KnockoutJS in Oracle JET More to come.  We hope you...

Taking on board the fact that Oracle JET is capable of producing not just web applications, but Cordova hybrid-mobile applications too, within the Oracle mobile team we're keen to explore how Oracle JET can be extended to Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, to provide all the backend mobile services that mobile apps require. If you're a regular MCS fan you will know that MCS provides a number of client-side SDKs to make the task of working with MCS easier than writing what can be a...

For anyone interested in exploring Oracle JET for both web AND hybrid mobile application development, I recently published two articles on Dzone which you may find helpful in getting started: Installing Oracle JET for JavaScript Web Development  Installing Oracle JET for Hybrid-Mobile Application Development Of course this isn't the only way to start with JET, and we highly recommend you take the chance to check out the free MOOC, the next scheduled online course will...

With the recent addition of beacon support in Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, we've been pleasantly surprised at Oracle to learn how quickly customers are innovating with beacons, and we're keen to share some of these experiences so it will inspire others to consider how mobile solutions can help them too. Along these lines I had the opportunity to interview Ian Wallis in our UK office on how Manchester Airports Group is mobilizing their passenger experience with the introduction...

A few months back I wrote a post entitled A quick checklist for setting up your iOS application for Oracle Mobile Cloud Service. The goal being if you're familiar with the steps but you just need a quick reminder, you can use the checklist to ensure you've done everything you need too. Yesterday somebody asked me for the Android Studio equivalent.  So here we go, a quick list of steps to load the Android MCS SDK into an existing Android Studio application. Don't forget this is...