In the press
I wish my first press quote, professionally, could have been something a bit more happy. But here we are.
I wish my first press quote, professionally, could have been something a bit more happy. But here we are.
On The New York Times editorial page today, the Gray Lady touted a multi-author blog called Day to Day in Iraq. Simply put, the blog is written by regular Iraqis about daily life. Most of the authors are young men in their twenties. The entry that struck me the most…
Another Web 2.0 experiment: Feedblitz. This blog widget should monitor my blog’s feed and, whenever I post something new, send an email of the new feed to subscribers. I’m checking it out, because I think my sister should create a Ramos-O’Neill blog featuring the adventures of Finn and Ellie, but…
In writing my blog entries and my manuscript, wikipedia.org has proven an incredibly useful resource. So I decided I’d try to give back a little bit. But where could I contribute? Photography? No, I don’t know enough about optics. Scooters? Even though the Vespa entry has been flagged for poor…
My photo hosting provider, smugmug.com, has added a new mash-up with Google Earth. I can set lattitude and longitude points for every photo I’ve taken, and they show up on a map on my photo site. Now, the way it’s supposed to work is that you get a GPS card…
MoveOn.org recently sent out an email to collect donations to help CommonCause promote the development of electronic voting machines with a verifiable paper trail. I’m absolutely fascinated by the issue of paper trails because, well… have you wondered about the line “Your call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes.”…
Ted Farrell, Oracle’s Chief Architect, gave our keynote address at TheServerSide Java Symposium today (coverage in InfoWorld). Ted’s remarks reminded me of a fourth characteristic of open-source–or at least, of successful open-source projects–that I neglected to mention in my post on what makes open-source. Whether a project makes a tedious,…
InfoWorld reporter Matt Asay posted a column recently about Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE), our lightweight database product built on our commercial database engine that is completely free to develop, deploy and redistribute. In addition to saying some very complimentary things about a colleague of mine, Monica Kumar, Matt…
My first published article, “Putting a Face on Web Services and SOA,” just came out in the March issue of Web Services Journal. Very exciting.
Our first XE banner ad is up on IT Toolbox. You might have to refresh a dozen times for it to appear. But it’s up. I’ll find some way to show the ad on here.