Ever wonder where the license fees for your Oracle Database or your JD Edwards ERP system are going? I think I might have a lead…
Larry Ellison, founder and chief executive of software maker Oracle Corp., topped the list of best-paid executives of public companies during the past decade, receiving $1.84 billion in compensation, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of CEO pay. (WSJ.com)
Instead of innovation or improvement or R & D, Oracle users sponsor Larry’s sailing adventures.
CaptainOveur, a new gem from Disruptive Ventures, adds administrator authentication and user-administration capabilities to Clearance, the slick Rails authentication engine from the brainy and generous kids at Thoughtbot.
Like Clearance, CaptainOveur installs as a Rails Engine for ease-of-use and includes cucumber-based features for integration testing. Tested with rails 2.3.x and clearance 0.8.8, the Captain should be ready for rails 3 and clearance 1.0 in the coming days.
Opting to turn the suggested semantic form builder of clearance into a requirement, CaptainOveur does require Formtastic.
Ponder for a moment your behaviour and mine. Why do we do what we do?
Congratulations to everyone who made it happen.
Not for the technically faint of heart, this post is 50% observation and 50% conjecture about the technology underlying Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud.
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.” - John D. Rockefeller
Michael Krisher pointed out this interesting account of a git workflow…
In observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, Disruptive Ventures, Inc. will be closed on Monday, January 18th, 2010.
