Andrej Koelewijn

I’ve written a couple of articles for some magazine’s. Not many, just a couple. But every time i’m writing an article, i wonder why i do it. It’s not that i don’t want my articles to appear in a dead-tree magazine, but I’ve noticed that many magazines don’t make their content freely available on the [...]

Businessweek just published an article called Open Source: The Model is Broken, which contains some statements about open source which not everybody understands. From the article: So open-source companies that rely on support and service alone are not long for this world…. Open source has simply become a means to an end—it lowers economies of [...]

According to Adobe employee and RIA Cowboy James Ward Oracle’s been demonstrating a lot of applications using Flex during OOW 2007. Ward has a couple of postings on his weblog describing applications (including some pictures) using flex: Metalink, Bi Publisher, Enterprise Manager, Siebel CRM, Sales Prospector and Sales library. The pictures are a bit fuzzy, [...]

Last week we had a meeting in the office discussing web 2.0. Like many other companies, Oracle is about to release some products (webcenter) that enable you to build web 2.0 applications, so we need to find out what use it is to us and our customers. Although web 2.0 is nothing new, it’s been [...]

Surfin’ Safari is writing about a new HTML 5 feature just implemented in WebKit, the core of Safari: Client-side database storage. It enables you to create a database on the client, and execute sql statements in javascript. I guess it’s now up to Firefox to have an even better implementation. A distributed database by opening [...]

Even though this blog mainly focuses on Oracle related technologies, in the last few months I’ve also written about Adobe Flex. This is because i think rich graphical web user interfaces are going to become very important in the future. Currently the Oracle world is mainly focussed on structured data, both entry and retrieval, using [...]

Microsoft announced on their IEBlog that Internet explorer 7 has been released. Good news, as this means that we need less tweaks to make standards compliant websites work in Internet Explorer. You can download it here, or wait for it to be installed through Automatic Updates. This means that we’ll soon see large numbers of [...]

Yesterday Google launched code search. It enables you to search in source code, not code in webpages, but actual source files, like .java, .c, .cpp, etc. And it’s not limited to source files directly available through web servers, like cvs and subversion repositories. Google code search also indexes files inside archives like zip and gz [...]

According to Dutch minister Pechtold Dutch government websites currently aren’t accessible enough to people with disabilities. He even states that unaccessible websites should be taken offline. Only 4 percent of about ten thousend websites can be used by blind or handicaped users. The minister wants all government websites to comply with accessibility rules by 2010. [...]

Chris Schalk has written an interesting article for JavaPro: The AJAX Approach to Richer Interfaces. After an introduction about the basics of AJAX he shows how to AJAX enable a JSF component.