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Re: Feedback

noelportugal — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:59:35 -0000

I this case you could revert by using the standard apex_mail procedure that will allow you to use localhost....You will have to modify the procedures in OraTweet...Let me know if you need some sample code...

-Noel

Re: Feedback

noelportugal — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:29:14 -0000

The mail address is so OraTweet can send outbound email. If you have an email account with your hosted app (ie admin@yoursite.com) you can use that one. OraTweet has a procedure to allow authenticated SMTP to be sent. By default APEX has a built in function called apex_mail.send but in order to use this you need to have your host configured to handle email...If you decide to use the default apex_mail.send you will need to modify some of the code..

-Noel

Re: Twitter for Reporting the News

noelportugal — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:45:06 -0000

Google (youtube) released today http://www.youtube.com/reporterscenter a channel to teach you how to be a "citizen" reporter...maybe the tips will apply to twitter as well

Re: Feedback

noelportugal — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:49:42 -0000

Currently I do have one OraTweet client built on .net . Is not my favorite because is a little slow. Here at Oracle the "client" of choice is IM (xmpp).
Give me a few days so I can clean up the code a little and I can share it with you. Ideally we need someone to create an Adobe Air app...There are a few open source Twitter clients (Spaz) that in theory could be tweaked to use OraTweet.

-Noel

Re: Feedback

noelportugal — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:59:22 -0000

Thanks for pointing this out! I will update the filename f500.sql to oratweet_apex.sql

The reason that the invite page is only referring to the site is because I am using the rewrite rules. So all request to http://mysite.com rewrite to http://mysite.com[:port]/pls/apex/f?=APP_NUMBER... An easy fix is to include this on the SEND_INVITE process:

oratweet_site := :SITE || :DAD || 'f?=' || :APP_NUMBER;

where :SITE and :DAD where the substitution strings defined on the application definition.

Re: OraTweet Ready for Flight

noelportugal — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:24:01 -0000

Thanks Jake for the shout out. I'm intrigued on how and where will OraTweet end up...
I already see people from some "big" companies downloading the package. I am willing to help them as much as I can to see them succeed. As you well know being 2.0 champions takes some understanding of their community needs. User adoption can be hard when users don't see the potential right away. Only time and content can show the real value of all these tools.

Re: Feedback

noelportugal — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:00:41 -0000

Please share your experience installing OraTweet here. Any challenges? A breeze? Let me know!

Re: Feedback

noelportugal — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:47:00 -0000

I'm trying to get Disqus to work with APEX...Right now you will have to refresh manually your browser after posting. :(

Re: Tweet with Care

noelportugal — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:09:05 -0000

Facebook + Twitter are officially mainstream. I have been noting that EVERYDAY both are mentioned on the news (cable and over the air). This is a good thing, more information is flowing. I also have been getting a constant flow of requests, even tough I confess I only tweet a few times a week. I tried to stay relevant but as noted, is not always easy. All and all is just another way to connect, and I welcome it :)

Re: What Gadgets Did You Get over the Holidays?

noelportugal — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:31:59 -0000

I finally bit the bullet on got a DSLR. I am a photo aficionado and enjoy the old school B&W photography, but I claim I don't have enough time for it...so for the past few years I've been upgrading several digital point and shoot cameras. So I finally did it! I stayed with Nikon since that's what I know and like ..Anyways that was my x-mas present and I'm loving it!

Re: Did Someone You Know Get Facebook for Christmas?

noelportugal — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:05:09 -0000

Funny you mention this, my grandma just joined FB! and she loves it. But I'm in bind here with FB. I joined back in the day when only edu users could sign up. Since then I made a rule of just adding ppl that I have meet IRL and really care to keep in touch. My friends list is about 200 and i like that...In the other hand I wish I could have a FB account for business/networking use. I actually haven't look into it but I bet is feasible now. Anyone has a suggestion?

Re: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together

noelportugal — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:04:31 -0000

Jake, as we have seen the "Good old hidden demand" keeps re-surfacing. OraTweet has been maintenance free too for the past few months, and yet people keep finding their way to it...

I believe things are moving forward, thanks for all the hard work in driving innovation in a huge enterprise conglomerate such as ORCL.

Re: We Miss You Carl

noelportugal — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:15:00 -0000

I never got to meet Carl in person, we talked on the phone several times and constantly IM'd each other. He was always helpful and was full of ideas.

His contributions to the Oracle community are invaluable. As mentioned before he was always willing to share his knowledge with anyone. He was a great example of what true collaboration and knowledge transfer should be in our technology field. His willingness to push the envelope with the latest technologies were outstanding and his work can vouch for it.

Carl was a great man and he will be greatly missed.

Re: Good Old Fashioned Vote Storm

noelportugal — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:14:54 -0000

Fixed! thanks for the pointer...

Re: Good Old Fashioned Vote Storm

noelportugal — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:47:43 -0000

Yeah, I'm digging Rich's submissions. That's the whole reason I decided to make it a contest, since I'm no illustrator and I know there is a lot of talent out there.

Disclaimer: some of the logos up there were found on the internet, the owners released them for public use and for non-profit...most likely we will not use them.(although they look nice :) That's even more reason for us to use Rich's or anyone else with original creations.

Re: Social Observations, OraTweet Edition

noelportugal — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:23:18 -0000

Here is what i see...you say no groups, suppose I "subscribe" to a group you belong, If I understand correctly what your are saying is that if we belong to the same group all your tweets will be received by me regardless the topic, right? Now when using @Group if i follow that group i will get the tweet regardless if I'm following you or not...therefore clearing the air for me...The way is setup now, lets you follow groups and individuals in that way if I only care to "listen" for @AppsLab topic i just follow that group...what do you think?

Re: Social Observations, OraTweet Edition

noelportugal — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:09:23 -0000

Jake, regarding groups, we do have the functionality to send tweets as a group but it's part of the unreleased update API. Basically the owner of the group that has the right credentials can post updates as a Group...this will be useful for triggers say on this blog...This post title can be posted on the @AppsLab group by AppsLab..then all the group "followers" will be notified.

Re: Why OpenSocial Matters and How it’s Good for You

noelportugal — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:15:23 -0000

Hey, so things move fast!! I feel your (appslab) pain as to leverage req/bug/enhancements. But then again is great to have such a great community that's ready to step in. OraTweet is moving forward thanks to meg.bear rebecca.emerson (Fusion team), internal tweets are flying all over ORCL. carl.backstrom has also step in as an OraTweet Developer/Admin and has helped me much. Your are right OpenSocial will let us connect and exchange info more easily, and can't wait for ed.jones to help me with OS integration...

Re: I Am (Not) Rich

noelportugal — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:09:31 -0000

At this point is uncertain who remove the app... The comments on the other dev ap (calc pro) got pretty nasty. Maybe he decided it was not a good move. Anyways I for once decided I needed to show the world "Am I Rich" http://www.evernote.com/pub/noelportugal/public/ I got it right from Cydia!

Re: Another Call for OpenSocial App Thoughts

noelportugal — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:03:02 -0000

Jake, Is on my list of "to do". Question, how are you containing inside the firewall right now?

Re: On OraTweet and OpenSocial

noelportugal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:04:55 -0000

OpenSocial....now it rings a bell! I even watched the Google Campfire One introduction a few months ago, signed up for notifications so I could sign up, then I never heard from them again :(
So yeah, I still have to grasp the whole concept and see how can I adopt....thanks

Re: OraTweetBot, an XMPP/Jabber listener for Twitter

noelportugal — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:42:10 -0000

Update...As Jake noted earlier at http://oracleappslab.com/2008/07/24/1010/ what I meant is using the database as a proxy by saving twitter user/pass. Without a database, OraTweetBot will only update one twitter account.

Re: On OraTweet and OpenSocial

noelportugal — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:40:10 -0000

Jake, you are right. I meant using the database as a proxy by saving twitter user/pass. Without a database, OraTweetBot will only update one twitter account ( I tought about passing user/pass to the bot but not very comfortable with it). Also, yes OraTweet could be use as a twitter queue just in case the mother whale is down.

As for OpenSocial sounds like a great idea! I can't wait to see how it looks like and how I can integrate with it. The reason Twitter caught my attention in the first place is how easy is to integrate with it. Easy APIs make a big difference. I'm a big believer of simplicity (when possible). That point brings me to APEX :) I have developed enterprise web applications with Java and C#.net, I do love the power of OO programming. But it was not until I started to use APEX that I was able to focus on usability and "bells and whistles". Being right on top of a world class database and being able to leverage data intensive functions to the database has freed up my developing time.

Keep up the great work! Can't wait to see.

Re: Some Thoughts on iPhone Apps

noelportugal — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:27:47 -0000

I agree Pandora is great! I just got my first iPhone and so far so good, my prev phone was this WM5 PPC brick. Listening to online streams was a pain and full of "bufferings". Now I have been plugin in my iPhone to my car and no skips whatsoever!My 15-20 min commute has become a treat! BTW if you really want to freak your wife out; enable ssh into her mac- from your terminal ssh to hers and type - $say Hello yourmessagehere . I did it to my wife for a while until she found it was me!

Re: We Heart Hackers

noelportugal — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:33:45 -0000

Thanks Jake for the post. I am currently working to get this project live internally, and also will be available for download as an APEX packaged application (like ARIA).
As noted in this article http://hivetalk.info/2007/07/28/7-enterprise-us... here are a few examples of using Twitter (OraTweet in my case :) ) in the Enterprise.
1. Task status updates from team members.
2. Real-time presence status for IM.
3. Informal timelog.
4. Assign tasks while away from the office.
5. Notify of important wiki updates.
6. Update everyone on last-minute schedule changes.
7. Process IM in batches.