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November 24, 2008

Favorite Apps in Windows

Here's a list of my favorite applications in Windows. Why Windows? Because currently I'm using Windows machine.

  1. Twhirl. It's a tiny apps, twitter client, built on top of Adobe AIR. It's a real productivity killer. The interface is nice, customizable, and it has a lot of features: lookup, friends/followers, integration with TwitPic and URL shortener service.
  2. Chrome. Yes, it's the brand new browser from Google. My favorite feature of Chrome is "Create Application Shortcut", which lets you create an icon for a web apps that you frequently use and launch it in its own window like a native apps. I use this feature for Gmail, Google Reader, RTM, and some others. By the way, Chrome is a beta software (like many Google products) and still have a lot of limitations, like it cannot render my company's internal portal properly.
  3. FlashGet. It is a good download manager for Windows. Even better, it's free and supports torrent files too.
  4. HyperSnap-DX. It's a program for making screenshots. It could capture the whole screen, certain application window, and certain area in many forms (square, circle, square-with-round-edges, etc).
I don't really have a lot of favorite applications in Windows. Maybe I'll write the Mac version later. What about you?

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September 16, 2008

About Oracle Tech and Apps

Hello again,

This time I want to write about something I learned after I got into
Oracle. Most people know Oracle by its database, which is still the
market leader until now. But, Oracle also has middleware (i.e. Oracle
Fusion Middleware), and a lot of application for various industries.
This segmentation follow the concept of "three-tier architecture",
which is a term for "database, application server, web browser / other
visualization".

Database is, well, you know, store whatever data you want to store,
mostly in tables. Oracle database also has some "enhancements" called
"Database Options". These database "enhancements" are optional
products, which if you "apply" it, your database can do more than just
storing and retrieving data. One example of this are functionality
such as clustering (called "Grid" by Oracle, another terms for
"running one database in a lot of computers").

Middleware is, for me, the most confusing one. In essential,
middleware is an application server. For example, you code some php
programs, and you put your files in a directory, in a computer which
runs a web server, that's a middleware (in the most simple form).
Middleware runs the logic on your code, accessing your data, and give
the data to your applications. Actually, some people like to think
that middleware is everything else which is not database or
applications.

Applications, is the one people interacting with. Most Oracle
Applications runs on web browser. Most Informatics Engineering major
people like me usually thinks application as a stand-alone software
that you can install such as PaintBrush, iTunes, or some other little
program that I code, etc. But in enterprise terms, application is a
big software, used by a lot of people, to access a lot of complicated
stuffs such as ordering stuffs from your supplier, generating
financial reports for tax, submitting data about a new employee, and
so on. Those applications runs somewhere in the company, accessed by
everyone with web browser, in real time (not so real actually,
sometimes it's very slow). In simple term, web application. For
applications, Oracle has application suite such as Oracle e-Business
Suite, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft, and all those names comes with a
lot of modules inside, for many industries (from banks to factories to
mobile network providers).

That's all for now :)

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