Web Services on Drugs

As recommended by Cheuk Chau on Medium, I read ' How to Develop a Daily Writing Habit ’ - I’ll try to put it in practice here with my second advise - should have been my #1 advise: Run a local copy of your application first, before to test it on your cloud instance. While it’s simple to run directly on the Cloud, and we have a lot of samples available to get started, working local first is the best way to get ready when trouble come your way. Samples are available from: Your own Cloud instance SDK : https://javatrialxxxx-usoracletrialxxxx.java.us2.oraclecloudapps.com/doc/index.html another instance of the SDK documentation, hosted for you :  https://javas2-jcscdc.java.us2.oraclecloudapps.com/doc/index.html The Cloud documentation books :  https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/javacs_gs/index.html OTN samples :  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/samplecode/cloud-samples-2203466.html Same samples, hosted on github :  https://github.com/o...

I had a conversation with  +David Haimes  on twitter the other day about blogging, and realized I have not been blogging for a long long time. While I can find information about almost everything with Google or Stack Overflow, I realized that it's sometime hard to find the one piece of information which is relevant for you, in your current context. It usually ends up being a compilation of multiple blog posts or answers; it's the curated content which brings most of the $$$ value. As I go through the process to discover how to use the Oracle public cloud , I am going to blog about the learning process, here. The first advise I'll share is this one: For any sample you are using, start with Git Here is why: Once you have a working version, commit and push to the remote. It give you the following benefits: easy to share with your peers - you have a backup for 'free' - in case the next set of changes break something in a bad way, rolling back is a breez...