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Re: “For Your iPhone Only”

Drew — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:55:15 -0000

I know you said it's for internal use only, but I'd be really interested in any Oracle Calendar iPhone tricks you have. We're using it where I work (as a support tech) and we're seeing more and more iPhones popping up around campus.

Re: “For Your iPhone Only”

Drew — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:58:12 -0000

It would sure be nice if Oracle Cal offered something like https://tools.wisccal.wisc.edu/cal/index.jsp out of the box.

Re: Virtual Adventures

Drew — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:01:57 -0000

Not sure there's a compelling reason to fire up a virtual machine to run wine or ies4linux. Try http://mike.kronenberg.org/?p=63

Having said that. ies4linux and wine don't really give you a complete sense of an end users Windows/IE/yourwebsite experience.

Re: Yahoo-Microsoft Endgame?

Drew — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:34:39 -0000

__The Right Thing__ But I'm the sort of idiot who sees things that are larger than dollar signs. Part of why I don't trust shareholders...

Re: Play Name the Platform

Drew — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:48:56 -0000

As a platform meant to drive ideas/connections, I would say "Light Bulb" is a winner.

Re: Why Is Calendar So Hard?

Drew — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:30:17 -0000

This is probably a dumb question, but have you tried Oracle Calendar? I don't particularly love it but it has a 'nix client and will read ics files. Supposedly the latest server will work with other clients too...

Re: Mix Gets a Makeover

Drew — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:27:48 -0000

I don't want to tell you guys your business, but frankly Oracle's standard appearance is pretty uninspired. Mix may in fact be an innovative idea catcher but it's look now shouts "enterprise software" which in my experience is synonymous with unusable and slow. Great work marketing. There goes my hopes that Oracle might learn a thing or two from the AppsLab experiment.

Re: Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . .

Drew — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:38:52 -0000

Not that Gruber is the end-all be-all on iPhone dev, but he makes some cogent points on where the copy-paste ui falls down at http://daringfireball.net/2008/08/raining_on_th... . Specifically the part about separate clipboard stores for each app. If this is right then the cache mgmt issues are significant and the potential for Apple to break things later is also high. I'd love to see the iPhone open up a little more. I'm hopeful that an improved and in the wild Android will keep them on their toes and eventually get them to support the same kinds of third party efforts that enhance Mac OS X. Meanwhile we're all waiting for copy and paste still for more than one reason.

Re: Thoughts on Chrome

Drew — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:39:30 -0000

Runs like lightening even inside parallels. I could see google managing to penetrate a bit further than the ol' fox into ms land if they market it right. And as others have pointed out, if Safari/Firefox/IE/Opera and various others use some of the open-source goodies in Chrome to make themselves faster/stabler/mo-bettah then everyone wins including the big G.