Carl Backstrom's Blog

Looks like something on feedburner was messed up and it put 3 weeks of the 'few' links I share/broadcast at one time.

I use Google Reader as my only RSS reader and absolutely love it since I bounce around from computer to computer to phone.....

As quite a few other people have pointed out today ,
http://oracleappslab.com/2007/09/06/google-reader-updates/
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/09/we-found-it.html

Google Reader now has search (among other things), but the thing I mainly care about is the search and it has already been helpful.

Actually the first rule is probably require user login.

So I've been watching the usage on my tagging functionality, and it's not quite what I was hoping for. While I know people were applying and adding tags there was significant amount of people that were applying and adding tags just any old page, probably just to see the nifty AJAX effect I'm sure ;).

So I'm turning off the user initiated tagging, and going with an administrative tagging setup, which is basically just me adding them. I'm actually going to replace my breadcrumbs with this since I think it will be more useful.

User entered tags would work great if I required login to my application and then people could tag pages with personal tags that only they could see. And then the tag package could create tag weights based on that compared against the administered tags.

I will be allowing for voting on tags to change their weights on page but you can only vote on tags the administrator has entered.

Anyway I should have PL/SQL package that can be plugged into any APEX application to provide tagging functionality next week. I'm thinking I might make a package that contains the tagging/rating/comments functionality into ones package , configurable of course.

If course there is always my regular 40 hour to think of but this is much funner ;)

Just a quick post. I moved my rss feed to feedburner. I've been mulling it over for a bit and was basically waiting for Google to do it for me since Google and feedburner are same company. But now since they let you redirect the standard blogger feeds http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/07/feedburner_integration_for_blo.php I figured that was close enough for me.

So if you feel the need point your rss readers to here http://feeds.feedburner.com/carlback
If you don't feel the need no worries 'hopefully' the redirection will work as advertised.

Edit:
Looks like there was a hiccup this morning with the rss feed redirect hopefully it is all working now, please feel free to drop a line if it isn't.

So while looking around the OTN Tech Blog.

I randomly found a link to this site http://oracleappslab.com/ and from there an internal site at Oracle described here they have some interesting stuff and actually use the phrase "Web 2.0" the way it is supposed to be used, not to describe the technology but to describe the social / collaborative aspect.

It's not APEX but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on whats happening in that space if for no other reason than to borrow someone else's good idea ;).

I just saw a post Slashdot about GeoRSS and KML support in different mapping websites.

http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/06/1448246.shtml
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/03/kml-and-georss-support-added-to-google.html


I went to college for GIS and Remote Sensing and am a huge fan of using XML for near everything so I'm pretty excited about messing with this in conjunction APEX.


Oh and the title is a quote from one of the most underrated films of all time http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/quotes