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We ran into Floyd (@fteter) last night. His cyborg transformation is complete.

Note the serious demeanor, with Glass power comes great responsibility, or something.

Backstory, Anthony (@anthonyslai) finally got his Explorer Series Glass unit on Sunday. Funny story, its display had a few dead pixels, three (more...)

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services

Seamless data availability, optimal applications performance, and reduced IT risk are critical to business success. Oracle Advanced Customer Support (ACS) Services delivers tailored mission-critical support services to help you maintain and maximize performance of all Oracle mission critical (more...)

I don’t normally pay much attention to games, but after GeoGuessr showed up in both the Verge and Kottke.org, I took notice.

It’s a very simple, but difficult game. GeoGuessr drops you into a random place that Google has mapped with Street View, but without any metadata, just (more...)

One of the great features of ADF is the easy out-of-the-box support for Partial Page Rendering (PPR) using the partialTriggers, autoSubmit and partialSubmit properties. And when things get a bit more complex there is a very easy API to do it programmatically. But what if

• you don’t know beforehand (more...)

A little while ago I got a very nice challenge: play around with the ADF client-side framework.

The customer had a table where users could multi-select via an extra column with checkboxes. Header of that column also contained a checkbox to select or deselect everything at once. For example:

It (more...)

This blog has been around for six years, and given how varied and banal a lot of what I write is, I’m stunned it’s lasted that long.

While at Collaborate in April, John (@jpiwowar) mentioned something about the blog that resonated with me. He said he appreciated (more...)

One of the aspects I like about my newish team, Applications User Experience, is access to real research. Through eye-tracking, the usability labs, ethnographic research, focus groups and a host of other tools, AUX collects data from real users to help us understand how to build better (more...)

Every time security of apps comes up in any conversation it turns out a lot of people are unaware of this being an issue at all. Simple things like the screenshot iOS takes every time your app gets backgrounded are not the common knowledge I expected it to be by (more...)

Recently the ADF Special Interest Group at AMIS organized an ADF DVT Speed Date. During this speed date, six ADF specialists from our team presented their favorite Data Visualization Component from the DVT library.
In a series of blog posts we share the information with a broader audience.
In this (more...)

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Magazine
The May / June issue of Oracle Magazine is now available.  It features articles on Oracle Cloud, SOA and more.  Be sure to check it out. 

When you write a lot of code, no matter what sophisticated framework you use, there are pieces of code that you end up writing over and over again (especially when using Java). Writing logging code in Java is a good example. A common pattern is to initialize a static logger (more...)

I’ve been doing more tinkering with my development toy, the Nexus 7, and kudos to Anthony (@anthonyslai) for finding this gem.

WebKey is an Android app and accompanying service that allows you to manage your device from a browser.

WebKey (Play Store link) isn’t new. (more...)

PBS Off Book has a short and interesting look into wearable computing. Check it out, h/t MAKE and Geekosystem:

Aside from the recent, top-of-mind examples (Google Glass, Pebble), I’m amazed at how functional smart garments have become. Innovation has been happening in both the fashion and DIY circles, but since (more...)

Created by the International Oracle User Council (IOUC). Hat tip to this Oracle blog for bringing it to our attention.