When People Interact with Executable Processes, a key business enabler is the user tools. Not all tasks or activities demand the same type of user interaction. This article describes how to identify different types of tasks to create a a Usable Multi-function Task List
Flash – Adobe, Apple, Google
I read this as “We Wish Apple Was More Like Google”. Okay, let me come right out and tell you that Apple has not been morally right about anything related to preventing Flash on their devices. They have simply played a good marketing game to protect profits and eliminate competition. Amazingly, even after [halfway] eating crow about their previous decision to deny support for Flash by now supporting Flash-built Apps in the App Store, there are people saying Apple has been right to deny its users Flash on the web. Start with the premise that the only reason Apple is … Read More
Oracle OpenWorld OOW 2010 – Middleware
As has become tradition, I will be attending Oracle OpenWorld again this year joined by a few other M&S team members focused on Oracle Fusion Middleware. Let us know if you will be around and want to meet up. The most solid agenda items I have are the authors’ seminar for a new WebCenter 11g book we are releasing (more on that to come), a few of the SOA, BPM, Governance, and Enterprise 2.0 events with Product Management teams, and, of course, the concert.
First and Last Day of Month – Oracle SQL Syntax Examples
First Day of Current Month 1 SELECT trunc(sysdate) – (to_number(to_char(sysdate,’DD’)) – 1) FROM dualselect trunc(sysdate) – (to_number(to_char(sysdate,’DD’)) – 1) from dual Last Day of Current Month 1 SELECT add_months(trunc(sysdate) – (to_number(to_char(sysdate,’DD’)) – 1), 1) -1 FROM dualselect add_months(trunc(sysdate) – (to_number(to_char(sysdate,’DD’)) – 1), 1) -1 from dual
Avoid Designing Process, Technology, or ANYTHING Like the American Museum of Natural History in NY
I understand that not every building can be designed like a hub-and-spoke technology architecture simply because there are logistical issue with physical limitations, though museums do have major renovations. My frustration would be tempered by a design with a large lobby that has all sections split off from a central spot like an airport.
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