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
Flex Builder 3 Download – Where’s the link?
It is now more difficult to find Flex Builder 3 download. I just got a new laptop and wanted to install Flex Builder 3 because I am still working with projects that are based on it. Searched all over for the official download but had to hit a 3rd party site that referenced the link below. Still works at the time of this post (6/14/10): http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flex/flex_builder/FB3_win.exe Adobe is making it difficult to find past versions of Flex Builder as they want you to upgrade to Flash Builder 4. UPDATE (11/13/10): Thank you Steven. A link to the Mac version follows: … Read More
Flex 4 & FlashBuilder Impressions – Catalyst, FXG, Spark Components
This past week I was able to write a small application with the Flex 4 API and FlashBuilder. I have quite a bit of previous experience with Flex 3 and wanted to write a quick note on my first impressions of the new environment.
Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) 11g – Adobe AIR Desktop Widgets
I like seeing Oracle leverage non-Oracle technology, like Adobe Flex and AIR. I hope that trend continues for Oracle…while Microsoft goes off to build things like Silverlight and Apple simply decides to avoid support for Flash altogether on their iPhone and iPad devices. I haven’t played with these widgets myself yet, but I do like the idea and sure we will be leveraging them. Click to Download – Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Desktop Widgets Click to Blog – Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Desktop Widgets
WebLogic and WebCenter SSO with IIS – Windows Native Authentication (WNA), SPNEGO using Active Directory (AD)
Setting up Windows Native Authentication (with Kerberos) Single Sign-On (SSO) within WebLogic can be tricky. One way to accomplish this is to use IIS to front-end the WebLogic cluster. You need to use an IISIdentityAsserter in this scenario. Using an Identity Asserter based on HTTP headers has security implications and it’s important to ensure the communications are locked down between the IIS front-end to the WebLogic cluster. I don’t have much time to type more about this, but was excited about some recent work and wanted to get a quick post up in reference to this.
XMLFOREST vs XMLELEMENT – Missing vs Empty in SQLX
Like me, some people may have gotten excited about using XMLFOREST in SQLX, only to find that NULL values result in altogether MISSING elements, as opposed to simply EMPTY elements. Many times avoiding printing elements with null values is desired functionality, but in some cases the consumer of the XML might require those elements to generated anyways, with a null value (i.e. [tagname][/tagname]). Thus, I have found it is easiest to use XMLELEMENT instead of XMLFOREST for these cases. Note: IBM offers a directive to print empty elements for null values, but until Oracle implements such a feature, your best … Read More
Flex on Android – Nexus One Mobile Device
I just can’t wait for Flash on Android…and for Apple’s hand to [hopefully] get forced into supporting Flash as well. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQkSsmA_lFo[/youtube]