A Kickin’ [Interactive] Map

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A Kickin' Map

Mountaineer United Soccer Club (MUSC) came to us with a problem. Not a cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), big data, Oracle, or enterprise application problem; a different kind of problem. The field maps they had showing off their various soccer fields were very rudimentary with some not-to-scale representations of the play spaces. They lacked visual appeal that people desire when it comes to maps. They asked us to update the maps so so they had a bit more visual interest, so we took on the challenge and did a bit of research. We had some good design ideas for the map.

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[message_box title=”Interactive Map” color=”green”]CLICK HERE for the interactive map.[/message_box]

Google Analytics Integration with Oracle ADF 11g

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There are occasions when we desire to view the usage statistics of our webpage. Some of these metrics might include: active users currently viewing our web site/application user’s web browser user’s operating system pages visited per session average time spent on web site/application per session If you have designed your enterprise application or enterprise portal using Oracle ADF 11g, there is a simple way to track these usage statistics. To find out more, feel free to download our FREE Technical Tip document below. Software and versions used for the screenshots in this Technical Tip document are: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit … Read More

Oracle Identity Management vs. Oracle Identity and Access Management

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Many of our customers get hung up on the terminology for Oracle’s Identity and Access Management offerings, and perhaps rightfully so. There are more names and acronyms given to these products as there are people implementing them. Following is a quick breakdown of the latest version of both 1) Oracle Identity Management and 2) Oracle Identity and Access Management from the technical perspective of downloading and installing the products (as opposed to product packaging/licensing). When you speak with an identity management implementation partner like M&S Consulting, you will want to use the below terminology to ensure everyone is on the … Read More

Oracle Books – Packt Publishing

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Packt Publishing, the company that published the WebCenter Book that M&S Consulting’s E2.0 team co-authored, has just launched an Oracle focused version of its new online library platform: PacktLib. Aimed at all Oracle professionals, the Oracle book library is a low-cost, cloud-based resource that you can access anywhere whether in the office, on the move, or at a client’s site. Access all Packt’s Oracle books (50+) for less than $120 per year! That’s just couple of bucks per book. Get hold of high value information on the Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Oracle Applications, and more. Read content on your PC, … Read More

Oracle OpenWorld 2011 — Come See Us!

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We’ll head out to yet another Oracle OpenWorld even this year. Drop us a line and come see us October 2-6 in San Francisco! If you haven’t already, click the below image to register! As usual, it’s going to be fun…and if you haven’t already heard, this year’s Appreciation Event features Sting as well as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers!

Bigmon Cloud Monitoring Saved My Site

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Over the years, the M&S Consulting site has grown quite a bit. We have hundreds of blog articles and have retired more pages of content than are currently active. By introducing Bigmon Cloud into our environment, we realized — to our surprise — that our site was one of the slower loading sites when compared to other sites we have built, either for internal project or customers. By using Bigmon metrics reporting and trending, we were able to test mechanisms for speeding up the site and moving performance into a place we felt was acceptable. Then, we were able to … Read More

Identity Management: From Oracle 10g to 11g – IdM, SSO, OAM

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I have been running Oracle Identity Management 10g with heavy use of 10g SSO capabilities. Much of our web security architecture along with application authentication relies on this infrastructure. What do I do as development begins to shift from OracleAS to WebLogic, and our middleware stack goes from 10g to 11g? We will need to run 10g and 11g in production side-by-side for some period of time. This is a question many of our customers are asking and it is understandable that there is confusion around this. Oracle hasn’t provided the clearest of answers, and in general, identity management initiatives … Read More

Best CMS: WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal – What makes one a winner over the others?

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I was recently asked [again] about what platform to choose for an open source web CMS. At the highest level, and to avoid considering too many variables that introduce confusion into a decision, my general feeling on this is to go with the technology that best balances the following (in order): Community (users, third parties, and developers): size, enthusiasm, and proselytization Technology: tech stack and solution architecture Leaders: commitment, flexibility, release schedule I feel the community size and enthusiasm is so important that I decided to chart out the general trends. Although we implement will all of these CMS’s successfully, … Read More