Web Services on Drugs

With the new hardware and fast internet connection, is it the norm to only keep images in one high-res version, regardless of the way the content is utilized in the article? Today's example is this article on Forbes;  Why I Left The Wall Street Journal To Join Oracle From the article, here are two images : Siloette - 924x519 used in a region of 170 x 113 http://blogs-images.forbes.com/oracle/files/2014/07/Siloette.jpg Lighbulb - 1700x1129 in a region of 808 x 454 http://blogs-images.forbes.com/oracle/files/2014/07/Lightbulb.jpg Looks like a style of publishing where a subset of a full publication is injected on the left pane of another article to cross reference articles. If you continue reading on the site, then you start to benefit from this as you already have the resource in your local cache. Is this the new trend or one off? The other new trend I am seeing is to use flouted images on iOS, as background image in LinkedIn Connect for iOS. ...

Looks like I cannot go without a G+ profile if I want to continue to use my blogger account ... As I cannot go on Fesse Book to notify my friends I am no longer there, I have to use alternate routes ;-) Most likely, I am going to create a Marketing Account on MailChimp for 'Les Amis d'Eric' so that I can continue to push update about my remodeling project and my new diets. This is still work in progress, so stay tuned. -Eric 

With all those services that are using Face Book as identity, I am starting to get suspicious about the value they get from it. Here is the claim (in french): What is advertised by the site And here is the disclaimer from Face Book: What Face Book is sharing Who should I trust - I do not care about my public profile, all the information I put on face book is public and may not be accurate, so it's OK to have this shared with other for their use. My list of friends - no way / I do not want them to get spam. What is of interest to me may not be of interest to them. @Facebook, I do not mind sharing my face book email, but that's about it. 

Testing embedded link to Amazon store from my blog, to works with the new skin : My next Big Toy !!! The link to my twitter entry (https://twitter.com/rajkovic/status/388062009909989376). Or as it would be on twitter: Just saw this on Amazon: by for http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0076BNK30?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=B0076BNK30&linkCode=shr&tag=jarhell-20&creativeASIN=B0076BNK30&=electronics&qid=1381355864&sr=1-1&keywords=24-70 via @amazon

It's time to upgrade to the latest version of JDeveloper to get the latest technology from Oracle. You can get your download from this page . On Mac OS-X, I have been using the "Generic" option of Studio Edition: 12.1.2.0.0 . On my work desktop, running Windows 7, I did go with the installer - Windows 64-bit Install (Size: 1.8 GB). As the first install failed with a generic error, I guess it's worth reminding everyone that you have to run the installer as admin. The message:  "ERROR: Launch: No such file or directory" .  If you go with the generic installer, you will get the root cause for this error: Unable to access or modify the system registry. Select Run as Administrator when opening the Command Prompt and try again. The Oracle Universal Installer failed. Exiting. First time, it will take a few minutes to setup the environment, and you will see a new pop-up before to get started: Have fun with this new release, and take a look at the...

It does not work :( You can use the following form to search on Amazon.com Amazon.com Widgets Here is an alternate option with a cloud of product tags: Amazon.com Widgets

There are interesting new initiative on the cloud front. Here are a few that catch my attention in the past weeks: OASIS Cloud Application Management for Platforms ( CAMP ).  OASIS Cloud Authorization ( CloudAuthZ ). The AWS GovCloud (US) Region Camp remind me of BootCamp or LeBootCamp :) Is CloudAuthZ the next OAuth? With all the buzz around cloud, I am curious to see where we are going.  How are all these new initiatives going to impact us on the Web, while using DropBox, EverNote, or Google+, LinkedIn, Apple and the like?  Where is the trust going to be on the WEB? I'll like to keep the center-stage in this role game and own my identity, keep my tokens secured in my wallet like I do today. I am not sure I want to trust comercial entities to do this for me, free of charges. Can players like Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat and the telcos get into this game and provide the unified platform for everyone t...

It has been a long time since I last used soapUI - see my 2007 post - when I was using version 2.1.x. Today, I got 4.5.1, from the same location:  http://www.soapui.org/ I wanted to test a simple WS using WS-Security username token and ran into an interesting issue; the invocations were failing with an HTTP error : 401 Unauthorized .  The solution was simple - switch the HTTP authentication to use preemptive mode (see documentation ). Changes to Request Setup Here are 2 common HTTP errors codes: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden The username/password you provided is not valid. HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized The server is sending back an auth challenge that may be ignored by the HTTP client library - the hint on the response is "WWW-Authenticate: BASIC realm="owsm". And 1 common soap fault: <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">   <env:Header/>   <env:Body>     <env:Fault xm...

While I was trying to get some JUnit test written on my MacBook Air over the weekend, I end up spending wasting some time with a silly issue : get the JUnit extension installed. From the documentation, it's pretty clear - the Help menu. Enable JDev Extension - section 9 :  http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26098_01/install.1112/e17074/ojdig.htm#BDCBECBH The issue was to find this menu - until I finaly found the empty entry right to the Window menu - It's the standard location for this entry, on Mac OS-X, except that it was not rendered due to the number of tools I have coming from the far right end. As it took me some time to figure it out, I'll share it here in case you are running into the same small hurtle. Help menu, right to Window, but without the display name when space is limited. Once you have the extension installed, here is a good blog post that walk you through the next steps: https://blogs.oracle.com/bwb/resource/JUnit_Testin...

With Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), I have found my first upgrade hurdle - starting JDeveloper give me a bash script that runs forever with ~100% CPU utilisation. I am currently running the Studio Edition Version 11.1.2.1.0 Google gave me a good first place to start : A Mountain Lion Ate My JDeveloper . While this sounds like the right solution, I am going with a simple hack for now; it is to use JDK 1.7 and ignore the warning seen at startup. Edit ~/Oracle11121/Middleware/jdeveloper/jdev/bin/jdev.conf replace SetJavaHome /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home with SetJavaHome /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home So far, so good and I am able to see my current projects and compile my code. You mileage may varies.

After a long time looking into Application development and UX widget, I am taking a fresh look at Web Services and I'll be starting to play with JSON and REST ideas. But first thing first, I have to refresh my IDE install on my MacBook Air - This is an easy 2 steps process: Download the latest version from OTN - Version 11.1.2.1.0 is the latest (Build 6081). Follow the steps from Shay's blog . The 1.7 GB file is not really lightweight on the WIFI network - it's better to have something else to do while waiting for the file to be ready, like learning about Oracle Enterprise Repository: Start with the overview, here . Next is the Java API References , a.k.a. the JavaDoc and the OSR online documentation . There is a lot of reading material, so you should be good for some time. You can also browse the Sample Code collections on OTN - My next stop is the Oracle CRM On Demand Sample Code . Here are 3 screen shoots that are important: Pop-up screen you wi...

I have been trying to setup a new account with Amazon to get into the french version of the associate program, and got an email with potential french readers. It all started well, with a nice intro: Cher Partenaire, Merci d'avoir pris contact avec le Programme Partenaires d'Amazon.fr.  Then, there was a link: Ai-je résolu votre problème?     Si non, cliquez ici s'il vous plaît :  +a short link After I answered a few questions, I got a nice 'Call Me' offer, except they are close right now.   Why are we not able to get a better user experience and see the open hours upfront? It would be nice to have an asynchronous way to keep in touch on my current issue or ticket. CRM has still a long way to go, especially for free services. Or am I asking too much here?

Until I can find a way to setup my french account on Amazon Associates, the link to search is gone from by blog as it's now a dead account. From twitter: RT @Scobleizer An Open Letter To Jeff Bezos On Terminating The Amazon Affiliate Program In California http://t.co/By2lZxC from @dannysullivan Thanks you, Jerry Brown.

It has been a very quiet year on the blogging side. Most of the free time was spent on the new media, trying to figure out why Facebook and Twitter were so useful to communicate with the world. As I am wrapping up the year, I have two new books on my night stand: Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle WebCenter 11g With this on my to-read list, I should be able to convert my experimentations into something useful. I need to find a better way to: keep track of my comic books and follow the new releases dates build a collection of my preferred recipes, from the family and friends, together with the pictures I shoot and store in my Smug-mug account. Let see how I can make it happend in 2011 ;-)

Suicide pill in full motion :

I have a new tools to share with you : JD GUI http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui It's one of the must-have if you need to figure out why things are not working the way you expect them to work... After two days searching for a NPE, which was not reported, I wished I would not have wait that long before to get down to the rubber. Hoping I'll learn from my mistakes. Remember the bad smell: try { } catch { return null; } My $0.02 for today.

Always been confused between 13th and 30th, when it goes to English pronunciation - go figure. There has been a lot going on, and it may explain why my blog has been so quiet lately. Here are some fun facts and though about Web square (a.k.a 2.0): Thanks to a spammer, I came across an old post of mine where I was happy to see my ranking in the oc4j WS forum so high. Since, I have been moving to other area of development, and only reply to forum post using feedly reader, when I kind of see obvious error I can help with. I used to have a gold medal - now I am a newbie again. Did I lost my mojo? My new center of interest goes around ADF nowadays, and there is a new blog to add to your list - ADF Garage . On the fun part, I am wondering if it would make sense to put multiple mobile version of web sites, side by side in a single page, instead of using the full blown version, even when you are on a wide-screen computer, attached to a fast network. Try facebook and twitter mobile editions...

Maybe this would be better as a question on twitter, as I may not get to many comment here on my web 1.5 journal. Is it OK to write code I cannot test and assumes that by the time I am done writing the features I have in mind, the environment to test it would be available, or should I start setting up the environment first, and get the hello world application up and running with the monitoring and clean log files, so that I can then go ahead with small incremental cycles which are all providing features I can test as I go? On another topic, when can you consider that a forum or forum category is to be considered dead? a) 0 post in a day b) 0 post in a week ? c) 0 post in a month?

No comment, I have been looking forward to my new toys for days now, and the news is out on April first ...

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