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Setting Documentation Free

Last week we removed the authentication requirement from Oracle documentation libraries accessible via OTN. Thus OTN membership is no longer required for...

Last week we removed the authentication requirement from Oracle documentation libraries accessible via OTN. Thus OTN membership is no longer required for accessing doc!As part and parcel of this change, Googlebot and other external crawlers will soon have access (after some testing) to Oracle doc for the very first time, extending public access to that doc across the known universe. And naturally, a standalone "Documentation" search will shortly be possible in SES:It's a good...

SAP Redesigns BART

Hilarious WSJ article from Lee Gomes today. Apparently SAP has established a "Design Services Team" at Labs for the purpose of creating an appreciation for...

Hilarious WSJ article from Lee Gomes today. Apparently SAP has established a "Design Services Team" at Labs for the purpose of creating an appreciation for customer-centered UI design at the grass roots among its developers. Why? In the words of team member Narayan Nayar, SAP products are "inhumane." (Oh, the inhumanity!)Last week this team participated in a workshop in which developers were sent to BART stations (Bay Area Rapid Transit, for you non-Bay Areans) to interview...

Moving Toward OXN

I've taken up some responsibilities for the Oracle PartnerNetwork web site in addition to my regular OTN duties. What does that mean? Ideally, that Oracle...

I've taken up some responsibilities for the Oracle PartnerNetwork web site in addition to my regular OTN duties. What does that mean? Ideally, that Oracle partners will get a special tour of the copious development resources available to them on OTN, and that developers who are OTN "actives" (a couple million of them, by our count) will have better exposure to exclusive content opportunities through partner programs and initiatives.For example, Oracle's SOA Initiative offers...

Preliminary Financial Results Out

Here's a quote from the WSJ, for those of you without access to it, regarding Oracle's Q4FY06 forecast:"Bruce Richardson, an analyst at AMR Research, called...

Here's a quote from the WSJ, for those of you without access to it, regarding Oracle's Q4FY06 forecast:"Bruce Richardson, an analyst at AMR Research, called thepreannouncement 'unbelievable.' He said he expects it to 'put a lot ofpressure' on SAP AG, Oracle's No. 1 rival."Read the numbers for yourself.

Grass-Roots Demos

We're seeing a few Oracle ACEs begin to take advantage of Qarbon's ViewletCam tool, which allows you to capture full-motion swf demos and then add an audio...

We're seeing a few Oracle ACEs begin to take advantage of Qarbon's ViewletCam tool, which allows you to capture full-motion swf demos and then add an audio track on top of it. The end result is a sort of hybrid between a demo and a blog entry -- or I guess you could call it a targeted, "grass-roots" demo.This is an awesome tool (and only about $150) that we're recommending to the rest of the OTN community. (Tom Kyte recently blogged about this in fact -- check out the...

Exploring Trinidad

JDJ has just published the first of a multipart series from Jonas Jacobi about Project Trinidad (formerly ADF Faces), the JSF component library that Oracle...

JDJ has just published the first of a multipart series from Jonas Jacobi about Project Trinidad (formerly ADF Faces), the JSF component library that Oracle recently donated to Apache. For starters, Jonas explains the proper use of the Trinidad Ajax RenderKit via an example UI:Jonas, BTW, is the author of a new Apress book on JSF and Ajax, so the man knows whereof he speaks.

Oracle Validated Configurations

As if Oracle's "Unbreakable" support for Linux wasn't enough, now we have Oracle Validated Configurations -- "pre-tested, validated architectures -- software,...

As if Oracle's "Unbreakable" support for Linux wasn't enough, now we have Oracle Validated Configurations -- "pre-tested, validated architectures -- software, hardware, storage and networking components -- for successfully deploying Oracle solutions on Linux," according to the PR. How do these configurations differ from traditional certification, you may ask? I can't put it any better than the FAQ:"Oracle Validated Configurations go a step further [than certification] by...

Scoble

So Robert Scoble, king of the "corporate" bloggers, has left MSFT -- for a podcasting studio, of all things. This development, according to the trade press...

So Robert Scoble, king of the "corporate" bloggers, has left MSFT -- for a podcasting studio, of all things. This development, according to the trade press (example), is filled with significance and meaning. But can anyone tell me what it is?I'd be the last person to discount the importance/influence of the blogosphere, but on the other hand, let's put things in context. Scoble's blog, like most others, was chiefly devoted to his own opinions. To paraphrase an infamous but...

.NET Developers of the World, Unite on XE: You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Security Blankets

Interesting post from a .NET Developer about his experience with Oracle Database XE. His stated aims in the post, to quote:Installation and Configuration...

Interesting post from a .NET Developer about his experience with Oracle Database XE. His stated aims in the post, to quote:Installation and Configuration Understanding of Oracle terminology Basic Administration - Create a Schema, Table, Stored Procedure & User Access the Database from a .NET Managed Provider Discover an Oracle community and check out how friendly and helpful the community is...allof which are covered thoroughly. I nice post from someone with a...