While I’ve just had a burst of posts after digging out from a busy and successful second quarter, thanks to: My newfound love of bit.ly and the ease with which you can Tweet from bit.ly My deep backlog of blog posts; I actually blog on about 1/4 of my candidate articles The realization that I can provide valuable sharing with a short comment and a link to a story I’ve decided to change my sharing pattern and share more work-related items via Twitter . So my Tweet rate and my Tweet/post ratio have both already started increasing.

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Follow Me On Twitter: I’m Changing My Sharing Pattern

Oracle’s Daniela Florescu gave a talk at UC Irvine this May entitled The Magic Is In The Glue: XQuery + Cloud. A coworker pointed me to the slides here , which I thought I’d share in a more convenient SlideShare-based format and agree with violently in more than a few respects. First, let’s excerpt the abstract to tee things up: Ten years have passed since the W3C initiated its effort to design a query language for what, in 1999, was a new and controversial semi-structured data format, namely XML

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XQuery’s Real Potential: Transforming Application Development

Task Flows are the primary mechanism in ADF 11g for organizing the workload in manageable chunks that can be developed in a decoupled fashion in relative isolation, then merged together in web pages that implement the desired functionality.

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Introduction to ADF reusable task flows – consume a bounded task flow that gets synchronized with input parameter changes

Just a quick post to highlight and share this great case study by Mitch Kramer of the Patricia Seybold Group on Blue Guru, JetBlue’s content management and publishing system. Excerpt to tempt you into reading the 26-page document: XML is BlueGuru’s enabling technology, and MarkLogic Server is its most critical architectural element. XML addresses JetBlue’s requirements for structured documents—multiple types, multiple components within each type, hierarchical relationships between components, and component sharing across documents.

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BlueGuru: JetBlue’s MarkLogic-Based Publishing and Content Management System

Mike Stonebraker spoke today at SIGMOD (see Tweetstream ) where, among other things there was a 40-year anniversary celebration of the relational DBMS and, in what I suspect is non-coincidental timing, Mike did a post on the CACM site entitled The End of a DBMS Era (Might be Upon Us) . Excerpt: Moreover, the code line from all of the major vendors is quite elderly, in all cases dating from the 1980s.

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Stonebraker: Send Relational DBMSs to the Home for Tired Software

Skinning in ADF Faces is used to define user defined customizations with respect to one of the standard ADF skins. A skin is by and large a CSS document (CSS 3.0) that is interpreted at run time to generate the ‘real’ CSS documents (3.0 if that is what the browser can handle, 2.0 in most

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Using ADF Faces 11g Skinning for setting the styles of specific component instances or groups of instances

  At http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/middleware/htdocs/111110_fmw.html you wll find all Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g software. This includes: JDeveloper 11.1.1.1.0 with the 11gR1 release of ADF WebLogic 11g (10.3.1) SOA Suite 11g WebCenter 11g Complex Event Processing  11g Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer 11g – running on WebLogic Server 11g  To download all of it, you need substantial bandwidt h and diskspace. However, it is well worth it! Note: BPM

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Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g available for download

  The ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 conference started on Sunday with four parallel symposia followed by a stunning demonstration of the upcoming Fusion Applications product based on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g (including the most visible parts: WebCenter and ADF) – more on that presentation in a later blog. On Monday I did my two presentations – the first

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That’s Rich! Putting a smile on ADF Faces (presenting at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009)

Oracle posted a press release about their involvement and commitment for UBMatrix XBRL technologies last Wednesday saying (among others): “To help publicly held companies facilitate the preparation, publishing and automatic exchange of financial statements in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), Oracle will embed UBmatrix, Inc.’s leading XBRL technology into Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System, Oracle announced today.” “Oracle and UBmatrix are also working together to provide enterprise class storage and management for XBRL-based information in Oracle® Database 11g. Using Oracle Database’s XML DB feature, organizations can easily and quickly store, access and query their XBRL data.” A lot of you might ask themselves: “Who are or what is UBMatrix ???” and how does it all fit in… …more

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Oracle Enhances XBRL Reporting Capabilities with UBmatrix, Inc.

ADF developers frequently are not exactly sure which changes they have applied to the application can be picked up in the running application, without redeploying the application, and which changes absolutely require a redeploy as they can not be added to a running application. Knowing when redeploy is not necessary – and increasing the number

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Faster development of ADF applications – When to simply refresh the browser and when to redeploy the web application