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Re: Geek-Speak Observations

carlback — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:32:28 -0000

Ha!

'Mr. APEX' need to get that on my business cards.
Oh crap I need business cards to , wait OOW is green this year no business cards, yeah that's it I'm just being environmentally friendly ;)

Re: Geek-Speak Observations

carlback — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:58:01 -0000

When I did my unconference last year I ran up against Larry's keynote as well , didn't notice I had scheduled it that way till last second. Surprisingly had standing room only in the session so even if you get stuck with it it might not be that bad. Keynotes are all recorded as well so was able to catch up afterwords anyway.

Re: Social Observations, OraTweet Edition

carlback — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:58:22 -0000

Yeah is a hard choice, I just hate having to split up comments or worse sending something out that gets cut without me knowing.

Freindfeed allows for more and I don't see too many uber huge posts.

Re: Social Observations, OraTweet Edition

carlback — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:35:20 -0000

Since we aren't constrained by SMS the char limit will probably go away. We won't be broadcasting out 800chr posts but you will be able read them through the web interface, and whatever interface you make with the API.

Re: Voting Lessons Learned

carlback — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:24:06 -0000

>>> What is it about APEX?

Well we have been the underground go getters for awhile. Big at OOW for years , bigger at ODTUG this year, and bigger yet at OOW this coming year. That's what I call steady progress and upward movement.

I , personally, think our popularity has more to do with the what APEX is, sure you can build an application with it, but what we really are is a thin skin on top of the power of the Oracle database, and if there is one thing people know in the Oracle community is the power of the Oracle database.

>>> storming the voting

Ahh you make that sound bad. We have a vibrant , dedicated and enthusiastic user community, what product wouldn't want that :) .

Since the days of (Project Marvel --> HTMLDB --> ) APEX we've been very community oriented, pretty much based out of the OTN forums , which we've always told people is the best place for latest and greatest ideas examples and support , and then moving on to blogs , wiki's and http://mix.oracle.com as the new ways of spreading the word come along.

You guys gave the community a chance to vote and don't think they / we won't take it.

There's some great sessions in there, even some of the ones that have APEX prominent in the title can be applied to all sorts of web development environments https://mix.oracle.com/idea... and https://mix.oracle.com/idea... it just is much easier to implement in an APEX environment , go to the session and see for yourself.

Finally the number one vote getter is Raj's session https://mix.oracle.com/idea... and if you've ever seen Raj present well it speaks for itself, freakin amazing!

Re: Word of the Day

carlback — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:21:48 -0000

Doh,

Thats some fan made trailer.

The uber awesome official ones is here http://www.youtube.com/watc... , and for those that like quicktime better http://www.apple.com/traile...

Carl

Re: Taking the Plunge: Part 3

carlback — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:40:25 -0000

Yeah I had multi monitors working as well it was just the projectors at OOW that didn't like it last year for some reason, could have been my beater of a laptop.

Re: Taking the Plunge: Part 3

carlback — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:16:55 -0000

If you need to use it for presentations make sure to make sure it works with the projector, Ubuntu blew up in my face last OOW when i tried to use with the provided projectors.

Re: Post Updates to Twitter from APEX (PL/SQL)

carlback — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:57:02 -0000

very cool

I'm a big fan of twitter , well when it's up that is.
And this is a great tool in the APEX toolkit.
Now just to find a use for it ;)

Re: Suggest a Session Topic for OpenWorld

carlback — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:05:42 -0000

@Dan @Jake We are investigating APEX as a cloud/hosted/SaaS solution. Take a look at this http://carlback.blogspot.co... and we really want feedback of what people would like in that type of service offering.

People are also using APEX currently in the amazon cloud environment and within companies , including Oracle , APEX is being used as a hosted development environment very successfully N number of workspaces plus N number of applications makes alot of sense to alot of people.