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  • Is there a Windows philosophy of programming?

    - by Maglob
    I've been programming both in Unix and Windows environments. Mostly I've worked in Unix, where I've learned Unix Philosophy, which can be summarized as Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. There seems to be a clear difference in programming cultures between Unix and Windows worlds, for example: GUI vs CLI Registry vs config files Lots of tools specializing for any given need vs group of generic orthogonal tools which can combined Is there equivalent of "Unix philosophy" in Windows world? What Unix-programmer can learn from Windows or should be aware of when moving to programming in Windows? I would like answers to focus on the best practices of Windows programming (and not a fight between Windows and Unix).

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  • Oracle Unifies Oracle ATG Commerce and Oracle Endeca to Help Businesses Deliver Complete Cross-Channel Customer Experiences

    - by Jeri Kelley
    Today, Oracle announced Oracle Commerce, which unifies Oracle ATG Commerce and Oracle Endeca into one complete commerce solution. Oracle Commerce is designed to help businesses deliver consistent, relevant and personalized cross-channel customer experiences. “Oracle Commerce combines the best web commerce and customer experience solutions to enable businesses, whether B2C or B2B, to optimize the cross channel commerce experience,” said Ken Volpe, SVP, Product Development, Oracle Commerce. “Oracle Commerce demonstrates our focus on helping businesses leverage every aspect of its operations and technology investments to anticipate and exceed customer expectations.”Click here to learn more about this announcement.  

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  • Gamification at OOW

    - by erikanollwebb
    Last week was Oracle OpenWorld, and for those of you not in tech or downtown San Francisco, that might not mean a whole lot.  However, if you are familiar with it, Oracle OpenWorld is our premier customer event.  This year, more than 50,000 people attended.  It's not a good week to visit San Francisco on vacation because Oracle customers take over all the hotels in town!  It was crazy, but a lot of fun and it's a great opportunity for the Apps UX group to do customer research with a range of customers.  This year, more than 100+ customers and partners took the time to team up with our UX experts and provide feedback on new designs and ideas. Over three days,  UX teams conducted 8  one-on-one user feedback sessions, 4 focus groups and 7 surveys. In addition, we conducted a voice capture activity and were able to collect close to 70 speech samples at the lab and DEMOgrounds. This was a great opportunity for us to do some testing on some specific gamification concepts with a set of business analysts.  We pulled in 8 folks for a focus group on gamification concepts and whether they thought those would work for their teams. To get ready for this, my designer extraordinaire, Andrea Cantú, flew into town and we spent almost a week locked in a room together brainstorming design ideas.  We killed a few trees trying to get all of our concepts and other examples together in the process, but in the end, we put together a whole series of examples of how you might gamify an Oracle app (in this case, CRM).  Andrea is a genius for this kind of thing and the comps she created looked great.  Here's a picture of her hard at work!  We also had the good fortune to have my boss, Laurie Pattison and my usability contractor, Shobana Subramanian there to note take and observe as well.  Here's a few shots of us, hard at work preparing for the day (or checking out something on Laurie's iPhone...) To start things off, we gave an overview of gamification and I talked about what it's used for.  Then we gave the participants a scenario about our sales person and what we were trying to get her to do. It was a great opportunity to highlight what our business goals might be and why we might want to add game mechanics.  It was also a good way to get them thinking about how that might work for them in their environments and workplaces. There were some surprises for the day.  We asked how many of them were already familiar with the concept of gamification--only two people had heard of it and only one was using game mechanics in his work.  That's in contrast to a survey we just ran internally with folks in a dev org where almost 50% of about 450 respondents had heard of gamification.  As we discussed the ways game mechanics could be used, it became clear that many of the folks had seen some game mechanics in action but didn't know that's what they were.  We also noticed that the folks in this group felt that if they were trying to sell the concept in their orgs, they wouldn't call it gamification.  That's not a huge surprise to me--they said what we've heard in the past, that gamification does not seem like a serious term for enterprise software.  They said they'd sell it with the goals--as a means to increase behaviors by rewarding users for activities.  It's a funny problem.  The word puts some folks off, but at the same time, I haven't seen another one word description that quite captures the range of things that "gamification" can cover.  My guess is that the more mainstream the term becomes, the more desensitized we'll become to the idea the it's trivializing enterprise software in some way.  Still, it was interesting to note that this group still felt that they would not take this concept to their bosses or teams and call it "gamification".  They focused on the goals, and how we could incentivize desired behaviors with game mechanics.  As I have already stated in other posts, I feel like my org is more receptive to discussing how this is just a more transparent type of usability and user experience methods than talking about gamification.  That's the argument they said they would use. All in all, it was a good session.  I love getting to talk to customers, present ideas and concepts, and get their feedback and input.  It's the type of thing that really helps drive our designs and keeps us grounded in what our customers need/want.  We're already planning where to get more feedback opportunities in the coming months. 

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  • Ask the Readers: Do You Prefer Print Magazines, Online Articles, or Both for Your Important Geeky Reading Needs?

    - by Asian Angel
    We all love to read information about new computer hardware, gadgets, software, and how-to articles to help us and satisfy our need for geeky knowledge. This week we would like to know if you prefer subscribing to/buying print magazines, doing all of your reading online, or using a combination of both Latest Features How-To Geek ETC RGB? CMYK? Alpha? What Are Image Channels and What Do They Mean? How to Recover that Photo, Picture or File You Deleted Accidentally How To Colorize Black and White Vintage Photographs in Photoshop How To Get SSH Command-Line Access to Windows 7 Using Cygwin The How-To Geek Video Guide to Using Windows 7 Speech Recognition How To Create Your Own Custom ASCII Art from Any Image Google Cloud Print Extension Lets You Print Doc/PDF/Txt Files from Web Sites Hack a $10 Flashlight into an Ultra-bright Premium One Firefox Personas Arrive on Firefox Mobile Focus Booster Is a Sleek and Free Productivity Timer What is the Internet? From the Today Show January 1994 [Historical Video] Take Screenshots and Edit Them in Chrome and Iron Using Aviary Screen Capture

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  • Serverside memory efficiency and threading for a turn based game

    - by SkeletorFromEterenia
    Im programming on a turn based war-game for some years now (along with the engine) and Im having quite a hard time at figuring out what the games server architecture should look like, since most game server architecture articles I found focus either on FPS oder MMOGs, which doesn't really fit since I want many matches with 1- 16 players on my server, with each match being played in turn based mode. My chief concern is memory usage, since the most basic approach of loading every game that is being played completely into RAM should be quite inefficient, so is there a suitable strategy for selecting only the needed bits and loading them? Another question I got is how to design the threading on the server, since I think using only a single thread could be a problem due to the fact that the game or part of it might have to be loaded from the database. I would be very happy if you could share your knowledge or point me to material on this topic.

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  • Join the SPARC Go To Market Webinar on June 21st

    - by swalker
    Please join the World Wide webinar focused on SPARC, and designed to provide insights and selling guidance, at 5 p.m. CET on Thursday, June 21. The speaker, Bud Koch, Sr Principal Product Marketing Director will focus on SPARC / T4 Marketing: with a review of current assets and where we are going into FY13.  Details about the meeting can be found here. Please plan on joining 10 minutes before the scheduled start time. If you are not able to participate in real time, a replay will be available shortly afterward.

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  • Join the SPARC Go To Market Webinar on June 21st

    - by Cinzia Mascanzoni
    Please join the World Wide webinar focused on SPARC, and designed to provide insights and selling guidance, at 5 p.m. CET on Thursday, June 21. The speaker, Bud Koch, Sr Principal Product Marketing Director will focus on SPARC / T4 Marketing: with a review of current assets and where we are going into FY13.  Details about the meeting can be found here. Please plan on joining 10 minutes before the scheduled start time. If you are not able to participate in real time, a replay will be available shortly afterward.

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  • The death of Kodak digital

    - by Ken Hortsch
    Months ago Kodak announced that it was discontinuing its digital video to focus on “significant opportunities for profitable growth”.  Three years ago I picked up the little Kodak Zi6 (pronounced Zix) for the kids for Christmas.  It is an HD pocket video camera with a nice 3” LCD all built into a something a bit longer than an deck of cards.  It is low tech and great!  The kids have had a ball with it, and for around $100 it was perfect.  It comes with 2 AA rechargeable batteries and the recharger.  You can add an SD card, but don’t need to, and the USB is not a cable but a pop-out dongle so everything is right in the one package.  Too many companies look for the next big thing and fail to see the stuff that is good enough, and right in front of their eyes.

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  • What a week! Oracle OpenWorld & Maria Bartiromo (CNBC)

    - by Carlos Chang
    It's been a week since the end of Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne and both events were a huge success! We had many announcements including Oracle ADF Mobile, Oracle ADF Essentials, Oracle Developer Cloud Service and tons more.  Above is a picture I snapped of Maria Bartiromo from CNBC, who was there to interview Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd.  The stage was right in the midst of the booths that showcased new products, at Moscone North.  She's such a pro. With all the noise and people milling around gawking and taking pictures (myself included) she was solid & composed.   Her level of focus and the production quality of the show is impressive. She later stopped by for a demo of OEPE's  new support for Oracle ADF as well as Oracle Developer Cloud Service. She seemed impressed too. ;-)

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  • Oracle Virtual Networking Partner Sales Playbook Now Available

    - by Cinzia Mascanzoni
    Oracle Virtual Networking Partner Sales Playbook now available to partners registered in OPN Server and Storage Systems Knowledge Zones. Equips you to sell, identify and qualify opportunities, pursue specific sales plays, and deliver competitive differentiation. Find out where you should plan to focus your resources, and how to broaden your offerings by leveraging the OPN Specialized enablement available to your organization. Playbook is accessible to member partners through the following Knowledge Zones: Sun x86 Servers, Sun Blade Servers, SPARC T-Series Servers, SPARC Enterprise High-End M-Series Servers, SPARC Enterprise Entry-Level and Midrange M-Series Servers, Oracle Desktop Virtualization, NAS Storage, SAN Storage, Sun Flash Storage, StorageTek Tape Storage.

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  • What is 'work' in the Pomodoro Technique?

    - by Sachin Kainth
    I have just started to use Pomodoro today and I am trying to work out what I should and should not do during my 25 minute work time. For my 25 minute work stint I started to write some code and realised that I had done something similar in a related project so I opened that solution to copy and paste that existing code. Question is, is this allowed? Also, if during my 25 minutes I realise that there is an important work-related email that I need to send can I do that or should that wait for the next 25 minutes or the break. I am writing this question during my, now extended, 5 minute break. Is this work or is it a break? I really would appreciate some guidance as I really want to use Pomodoro to focus better on my work. Another thing that happened to me was that a Adobe AIR update alert came up on my desktop during the 25 minutes. Should I ignore such things until the break? Sachin

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  • EOL of MySQL Forge

    - by Keith Larson
    Forge was intended to be a community wiki resource for sharing information with each other.   However, over the last few years, we have seen Forge used less and less by MySQL Community, and more by spammers. What happened? MySQL Worklogs and MySQL Internals documentation will be moved to dev.mysql.com and with new anti spam measures in place. The MySQL Wiki, which was the primary focus of forge.mysql.com has been migrated to https://wikis.oracle.com/display/mysql MySQL Forge will EOL on August 1st 2012.

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  • Will learning ColdFusion help me advance my programming skills? [closed]

    - by chhantyal
    Currently I am working with a small web development company. We use jQuery on front-end, Coldfusion for back-end and MySQL as our database. We just started to use HTML5 and CSS3. This is my first internship and job. I know the basics of Python and want to add Django or Ruby on Rails on my skills set. In addition, I want to advance my programming skills with Machine Learning, Compilers, NoSQL and Unix Hacking. I also find front end web development pretty interesting. Should I focus on front-end and become skilled on HTML5/CSS3/Javascript? Or dive into back-end learning ColdFusion. I will probably leave the company after a year since I want to work with great product start-ups. And I live in India, where ColdFusion is not popular. Will learning ColdFusion help me become better programmer?

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  • Connecting People, Processes, and Content: An Online Event

    - by Brian Dirking
    This morning we announced a new online event, “Transform Your Business by Connecting People, Processes, and Content.” At this event you will learn how an integrated approach to business process management (BPM), portals, content management, and collaboration can help you make more accurate and timely decisions based on the collective knowledge across your organization. But more than that, this event will focus on how customers have been successful transforming to a social enterprise. We’ve blogged about a few of the in the past few weeks – Balfour Beatty, New Look, Texas A&M. This event will give you an opportunity to learn about other customers and their successes, as well as an opportunity to: Watch Oracle executives participate in a roundtable discussion on the state of the social enterprise Hear industry experts discuss best practices and case studies of leveraging BPM, portals, and content management to transform and improve business processes Engage the experts by having your questions answered in real time Register today and learn how Oracle Fusion Middleware provides the most complete, open, integrated, and best-of-breed solution in the industry for transforming your business.

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  • What are some recommended video lectures for a non-CS student to prepare for the GRE CS subject test?

    - by aristos
    Well the title kinda explains all there is to explain. I'm a non-cs student and was preparing to apply PhD programs in applied mathematics. But for my senior thesis I've been reading lots of machine learning and pattern recognition literature and enjoying it a lot. I've taken lots of courses with statistics and stochastics content, which I think, would help me if I get accepted to a program with ML focus, but there are only two CS courses -introduction to programming- in my transcript and therefore I decided to take the CS subject test to increase my chances. Which courses do you think would be most essential to have a good result from CS subject test? I'm thinking of watching video lectures of them, so do you have any recommendations?

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  • BI Publisher at OpenWorld 2012

    - by mdonohue
    For those going to OpenWorld, hope you can join us for any of the following Sessions, Hands On Labs or just stop by and visit us in the DEMOgrounds: Moscone South S-262 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Overview, What’s New, and What’s Planned Monday, 1-Oct 13:45 - 14:45Moscone South - 305Mike Donohue - Oraclewith Ed Farler - CSC Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher: Reporting for Oracle Applications Wednesday, 3-Oct 11:45 - 12:45Palace Hotel - RoseMike Donohue - OracleNote: new room to accommodate everyone who pre-registered Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Best Practices: Be a Reporting Superstar Wednesday, 3-Oct 15:30 - 16:30Moscone South - 305Nikos Psomas & Klaus Fabian - Oracle Two sessions of the Hands on Lab:  Building Reports and Data Models in Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Tuesday 2-Oct 17:00 - 18:00andThursday 4-Oct 11:15 - 12:15Marriott Marquis - Salon 5/6Nikos Psomas, Klaus Fabian & Kasturi Shekar -- Oracle You can also download the Focus on BI Publisher sheet that lists all Publisher related Sessions, Labs and DEMOground stations. Hope to see you there.

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  • Oracle OpenWorld Update -- Developing Java Applications in the Cloud: Oracle Java Cloud Service

    - by Ruma Sanyal
    Today we are focused on the Oracle Java Cloud Service. There are multiple sessions on this topic. In this particular session (which will run multiple times), learn how you can use the Oracle Public Cloud Java Cloud Service to exponentially decrease the turn-around time for the development and production roll-out of your WebLogic Server applications. This session will provide an overview the Oracle Java Cloud Service and demonstrate some of the product's powerful developer productivity features. For more information about this and other Cloud Application Foundation sessions, review the Oracle Cloud Application Foundation Focus On document. Details: Thursday, Oct 4, 11.15-12.15pm, Moscone South, Room 304 Thursday, Oct 4, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM, Marriott Marquis - Foothill F

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  • What's the difference between Microsoft's MCSD and MCPD certications?

    - by Damien
    I am looking on the website but the difference between the two isn't explained. To complicate matters a Google search tells me that developers should focus on the MCPD qualifications but an examination of the MCPD section of the site is telling me that the Web Application exams will expire in July 2013! It seems out of date. Meanwhile the MCSD exam seems to be a lot more up to date with references to HTML5/ASP.net 4.5 MVC applications! What's the difference? Are the MCPD certifications going to be updated after July?

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  • LXDE keybind "Raise" window not working

    - by Campa
    I am using LXDE* over Ubuntu Oneiric on a DELL Studio-XPS 64-bit machine and I can't get the keybind for raising windows to work. In my ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml I put: <!-- Iconify window: it works. --> <keybind key="A-Down"> <action name="Iconify"/> </keybind> <!-- Raise window: does nothing. --> <keybind key="A-Up"> <action name="Focus"/> <action name="Raise"/> </keybind> then I openbox --reconfigure, but no rasing windows keybindings. I could use the NextWindow action, but... not really the same. References: http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Actions *Nested question: how to know the version of installed LXDE?

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  • Web.NET is Closing Fast

    - by Chris Massey
    The voting for sessions has now closed, and sadly only half of the potential sessions could make it through. On the plus side, the sessions that floated to the top look great and, with the votes in, Simone and Ugo have moved right along and created a draft agenda to whet our appetites. Take a look, and let them know what you think. I’d also strongly recommend that you get ready to grab your tickets when they become available next week (specifically, September 18th), as places are going to be snapped up fast. In case you need a reminder as to why Web.NET is worth your time: Complete focus on web development Awesome sessions All-night hackathon Free (although I urge you to make a donation to help Simone and Ugo create the best possible event) Put October 20th in your calendar, and start packing. I’ve already booked my flights, and am perusing the list of hotels while I eat my lunch. Bonus Material There will be a full day of RavenDB training on Monday the 22nd of October, run by Ayende himself, and attending Web.NET will get you a 30% discount on the cost of the session.

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  • WP7&ndash;Samsung Owners Should Hold Off on the Update

    - by D'Arcy Lussier
    Microsoft released an update for WP7 that’s meant to improve updating the devices going forward. They’ve identified a glitch though, specifically with Samsung phones. From Winrumors: A number of Windows Phone 7 users applied the patch on Monday and some Samsung Omnia owners devices have been left in a “bricked” state. Devices simply instruct users to connect them to a PC, hard resetting the device or connecting it to a PC does not appear to solve the issue. Microsoft has also been advising users with broken devices to return them to stores for exchange. The scary thing about this is the resolution: return the “broken” devices to stores for exchange. Many Samsung Focus owners in Canada purchased unlocked phones from the US, and supposedly that act alone voided the warranty. So applying the update has very dire implications for those who might be left with a very pretty brick. I’m going to wait until there are successful installs of the patched update before going ahead with it on my device.

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  • Custom code in SharePoint

    - by Sahil Malik
    SharePoint 2010 Training: more information Microsoft launched SharePoint 2013 with great fanfare. But what stuck out was the introductory blog post by Corporate SVP of SharePoint, Jeff Teper. You can read the blogpost titled “The New SharePoint”. But one paragraph has stuck out, “Use SharePoint as an out-of-box application whenever possible - We designed the new SharePoint UI to be clean, simple and fast and work great out-of-box. We encourage you not to modify it which could add complexity, performance and upgradeability and to focus your energy on working with users and groups to understand how to use SharePoint to improve productivity and collaboration and identifying and promoting best practices in your organization.” The keywords here is “whenever possible”. The reality is, frequently it is not possible to not customize SharePoint in order to meet the customer requirements. But you must try and minimize SharePoint customization. There are many ways Read full article ....

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  • Is loose coupling w/o use cases an anti-pattern?

    - by dsimcha
    Loose coupling is, to some developers, the holy grail of well-engineered software. It's certainly a good thing when it makes code more flexible in the face of changes that are likely to occur in the foreseeable future, or avoids code duplication. On the other hand, efforts to loosely couple components increase the amount of indirection in a program, thus increasing its complexity, often making it more difficult to understand and often making it less efficient. Do you consider a focus on loose coupling without any use cases for the loose coupling (such as avoiding code duplication or planning for changes that are likely to occur in the foreseeable future) to be an anti-pattern? Can loose coupling fall under the umbrella of YAGNI?

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  • What are some good resources for learning about file systems? [closed]

    - by Daniel
    I'd like to learn about file system design at a very detailed level. I'm currently in a graduate level operating systems course, and we're currently going over file systems. We mostly discuss papers and such, but our semester long project is to implement a log-structured file system using fuse and a virtual disk. Are there any good books that focus heavily on file system design and implementation? I have some conceptual clouding on things that seem very basic such as "when we say that an inode has pointers to blocks, do we mean anything besides the inode keeping track of block numbers? Is there any other format for 'disk pointers'?" I'm actually looking at file system design to start my career, so I'm probably going to try to implement a more traditional file system with fuse and our virtual disk format after this course is over.

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  • Oracle OpenWorld Update -- Scaling Infrastructure to Meet Business Growth: A Coherence Customer Panel

    - by Ruma Sanyal
    Today being the Monday of OpenWorld is packed with great content and sessions. I have already blogged about the general session by Ajay Patel and the classic Cloud Application Foundation roadmap and strategy session by Mike Lehmann. But we will be remiss if we don’t list the customer panel for Coherence. Come listen to customers spanning a wide variety of industries such as consumer goods, railways, and agricultural biotechnology discuss how Oracle Coherence enables business growth, cost cutting, and improved customer experience. You will learn how Coherence helps scale services cost-effectively, improve performance, and assure service availability in both on-premises and cloud deployments. Each customer will present details of their specific use cases, benefits and war stories of developing, deploying and managing some of the largest data grid deployments in the world. The session will be moderated by Cameron Purdy, VP of Development, and Mr. Coherence himself J For more information about this and other Coherence sessions, review the Coherence Focus on document. Details: Monday, 10/1, 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m., Moscone South Room 309

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