Amazon Store 4 Mobile

It does not work :(
You can use the following form to search on Amazon.com
Here is an alternate option with a cloud of product tags:

News from the Open Cloud

There are interesting new initiative on the cloud front. Here are a few that catch my attention in the past weeks:
  1. OASIS Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP). 
  2. OASIS Cloud Authorization (CloudAuthZ).
  3. The AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Camp remind me of BootCamp or LeBootCamp :)

soapUI is back, with lot more for you.


It has been a long time since I last used soapUI - see my 2007 post - when I was using version 2.1.x. Today, I got 4.5.1, from the same location: http://www.soapui.org/

I wanted to test a simple WS using WS-Security username token and (more...)

Where is my help menu?

While I was trying to get some JUnit test written on my MacBook Air over the weekend, I end up spending wasting some time with a silly issue : get the JUnit extension installed.

From the documentation, it's pretty clear - the Help menu.


Enable JDev Extension - section 9 (more...)

JDeveloper does not start after Mountain Lion upgrade

With Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), I have found my first upgrade hurdle - starting JDeveloper give me a bash script that runs forever with ~100% CPU utilisation.

I am currently running the Studio Edition Version 11.1.2.1.0

Google gave me a good first place to (more...)

Back to my WS-Root

After a long time looking into Application development and UX widget, I am taking a fresh look at Web Services and I'll be starting to play with JSON and REST ideas.

But first thing first, I have to refresh my IDE install on my MacBook Air - This is an (more...)

Customer Service and user experience

I have been trying to setup a new account with Amazon to get into the french version of the associate program, and got an email with potential french readers. It all started well, with a nice intro:
Cher Partenaire,
Merci d'avoir pris contact avec le Programme Partenaires d'Amazon.fr.
 Then, (more...)

Amazon search box is gone

Until I can find a way to setup my french account on Amazon Associates, the link to search is gone from by blog as it's now a dead account.


From twitter:
RT @Scobleizer An Open Letter To Jeff Bezos On Terminating The Amazon Affiliate Program In California http://t.co/By2lZxC from (more...)

Lose end of 2010, as we get ready for .next

It has been a very quiet year on the blogging side. Most of the free time was spent on the new media, trying to figure out why Facebook and Twitter were so useful to communicate with the world.

As I am wrapping up the year, I have two new books (more...)

Mon humeur du jour.

Suicide pill in full motion :

Java Decompiler

I have a new tools to share with you : JD GUI

http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui

It's one of the must-have if you need to figure out why things are not working the way you expect them to work...

After two days searching for a NPE, which was not (more...)

Friday the 30th, Halloween is just around the corner

Always been confused between 13th and 30th, when it goes to English pronunciation - go figure.

There has been a lot going on, and it may explain why my blog has been so quiet lately. Here are some fun facts and though about Web square (a.k.a 2.0):

Should I write code before I can test it?

Maybe this would be better as a question on twitter, as I may not get to many comment here on my web 1.5 journal.

Is it OK to write code I cannot test and assumes that by the time I am done writing the features I have in mind, (more...)

iFool


No comment, I have been looking forward to my new toys for days now, and the news is out on April first ...

Thinking to light the fireplace tonight ?

Check this first:

JDeveloper 11g on Mac OS-X

Today, I have been stuck at home, and it was a good opportunity for me to upgrade my current 10g release of JDeveloper to the latest and greatest, on my iMac.
So far so good, but remember the basics: read the releases notes, and Google for someone else, with past (more...)

Random notes

For some time, I have been away from my blog, and sent most of my spare time on facebook, trying to figure out why I should use it. did not find the answer yet ... but I am sure there is some. otherwise, why would everyone been their, and acept my (more...)

Gary Vaynerchuk on National TV

If you are into wine, you may like this wen site: http://tv.winelibrary.com/. Gary Vaynerchuk is fun to watch, on his TV show.
I am now waiting for Loic Le Meur to have his version of wine testing on Seemic, so that Robert Scoble knows what to buy, (more...)

Random link

As father day is coming around the conner, here is some could stuff I'll love to have:
the virtual goggles: http://www.psfk.com/2008/06/virtual-googles-for-your-future-robotic-assistant.html
the BAD Mini Club: http://jalopnik.com/390392/a-bad-bad-mini-clubman-for-a-good-cause

Hard to guess error, which may not be obvious at first

As you are getting up to speed with the command line option you get with the Oracle Web Service stack, you may ran into the following error message (hopefully, you will be able to google this post) : "method java.util.Collections.emptyList with signature ()Ljava.util.List; was (more...)