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Saturday
Oct 4,2008

You may have noticed Bex mention 10g support for the blogs & wiki component or seen the update at  Oracle’s quarterly ECM community seminar,

Well 10g Blogs and Wikis are coming soon!! There was a last minute bug and so the updated components have not been pushed out to a public site just yet.

The will be a patch and OTN download in the next 1-2 weeks!!

Can’t wait to try them out :D

Saturday
Oct 4,2008

I’v been using prototype and scriptaculous for about 1-2 years now, I’ve even got “Prototype & scriptaculous in action“. But over the last couple of months I’ve been disappointing with the lack of updates :( or news. And with Jquerys new branding and continuous development, I’ve been so close to moving across…

I love the fact that prototype is so light weight and it makes my life so much easier, but it does have a number of small flaws that need to be addressed.. I feel like Im being pushed by the web community to give up on prototype and take that jump onto jquery.. But I`ll be giving prototype another 6 more months and see where it takes me.

Maybe I`ll use PrototypeJS for small JS projects, jQuery for more indepth applications and EXTJS for the motherload of projects where I need everything..

Id love to know what you guys are using and what your thoughts are on these frameworks..

Saturday
Oct 4,2008

Over the next month or so I will be releasing a list of tiny components, which I’ve developed whilst working with Stellent & the Oracle UCM.
These components will be free!! ;) And will all be defined under the Creative Commons: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.

If you do use any of them, then all I ask is that you contribute $5, to buy me a pint down my local pub.



And if you do modify the component - please send me a copy, I`d love to see what you guys have done with them.

J.

Tuesday
Sep 30,2008

Ok, don`t throw away photoshop.. I was just kidding..

But the experts at yahoo have released this great new website go check it out.

More info can be found here at Ajaxian!

Tuesday
Sep 30,2008

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/content-management/ucm/samples/index.html

I`v noticed Oracle have posted up a new free component: UseNativeFileInIndex Sample Component.
It allows the Content Server to index native files instead of weblayout files. Sounds pretty interesting and worth checking out if you have a spare minute or two.

The other samples available:

bullet SelectivelyRefineAndIndex Sample Component (also works with Content Server 7.5.1/7.5.2)
bullet RSS Feeds Sample Component
HowTo Components Sample (also works with Content Server 7.5.2)
Create and Modify Layout Sample Component
Add PicLens Viewer to Search Results