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> and be locked into a 30 year old waterfall development model,

Oracle switched from Waterfall development model to sprint years ago. They also switched from yearly to quarterly releases (for their Apps) which means they deliver a lot of features in a year.

Oracle used to have EBS which competed primarily in SCM/Procurement (or ERP) domain.

They acquired the leaders in HCM (PeopleSoft) and CRM (Siebel) domains and combined them all (SCM, HCM, CRM) into a single (new) product called Fusion.

Their pitch also was - PeopleSoft and Siebel required people with different skill sets (PeopleCode for PeopleSoft, Siebel eScript for Siebel); but with Fusion, customization would not require any programming language knowledge and in the rare cases that it did, you just needed Java. This meant it was cheaper for enterprises. This was a big selling point for a lot of enterprises and helped them reduce their IT cost.

An alternative to Oracle's VBCS Plugin for Excel [1]

Oracle's plugin allows you access Fusion REST Endpoints (your business data) from within an Excel workbook but it only works on Windows machines and has some other limitations.

Also added a plugin for inspecting punchout payloads for RSSP [2]

[1] https://vbcs-alt.com/

[2] https://vbcs-alt.com/inspect_punchout/

If you aren't using it for coding or advanced uses like video, etc, you can try running models locally on your machine using Ollama and others like it.

Self plug here - If you aren't technical and still want to run models locally, you can try our App [1]

1] https://ai.nocommandline.com

> Would be even better if there was a installation template that checks if Ollama is installed and if not download it as sub installation first..... Also API to prompt user (ask for permission) to install specific model if haven't been installed.

That's actually what we've done for our own App [1]. It checks if Ollama and other dependencies are installed. No model is bundled with it. We prompt user to install a model (you pick a model, click a button and we download the model; similar if you wish to remove a model). The aim is to make it quite simple for non-technical folks to use.

1) https://ai.nocommandline.com/

> Some of these Electron AppImages are 1GB+

I recently released an Electron App for Ollama [1] and it's nowhere close to 1GB (between 300 - 350MB). A 1GB App would be really big

1) https://ai.nocommandline.com/

Since my App is targeted at developers building on Google Cloud, I focused on

1) Answering questions on Stackoverflow.

    - A few users clicked on the profile and went to our home page

    - A few of my responses involved a link to post on our blog (only did this where it was absolutely necessary)

2) Answering questions on Google Cloud reddit channel and Google Cloud Community (forum)

Still working on https://nocommandline.com which started out as a GUI for Google App Engine & Datastore Emulator.

I recently added support for Cloud Run and am now building it out. Support for Cloud Function is also on the road map.

I’m also still maintaining the patch [2] I created which allows you run App Engine Python 3 Apps with dev_appserver.py on Windows. To test App Engine bundled API/services, you need dev_appserver.py

[2] https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-python3-windo...

An alternative to Oracle's VBCS Plugin for Excel [1]

Oracle's plugin allows you access Fusion REST Endpoints (your business data) from within an Excel workbook but it only works on Windows machines and has some other limitations

[1] https://vbcs-alt.com/

I usually try to solve my own problem.

E.g. I use/used Google App Engine (GAE)[1] a lot. When Google deprecated the GUI, I found it inconveniencing using the CLI. Secondly, there was no GUI for the Datastore Emulator. So, I set out to build something for both of them [2] and then decided to put it out there for others.

Along the line, it turned out that Google didn't support using one of their tools "dev_appserver.py" for building Python 3 Apps on Windows and so I also built a patch for it [3]

1) https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard

2) https://nocommandline.com

3) https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-python3-windo...

I try to stick to serverless rather than trying to manage any infrastructure

1) Google App Engine Standard. Datastore for DB.

2) For anything that won’t work with the above, then it’s Google Cloud Run

Why not just use Google Forms? Our website uses it.

1) You can customize it and add your company logo/image. Can also limitedly change colors to match your branding.

2) It can be set to notify you of new submissions (ie each time someone fills it and submits it, you get an email)

3) It’s free and easy to set up.

4) You get a link which you place behind a ‘Contact Us’ text on your website. When users click it, it opens up the form.

- Release as open source if that was your intent or you want it (feel like) to be open sourced

- If you strictly made it to make money, then release it as a paid product but assume it might not make any money at all or that it will take time to make money. I believe that there's a general advice to shut down a project that doesn't make money in a very short time but some projects take awhile to gain traction. You can also use this as a learning experience in marketing/sales. Play around with the pricing over time (starting with much lower rates than you'd planned for) and see what works. You'll learn from it.

- Another option is to shut down the project entirely. You still have your code and they might come in handy when you work on other projects in the future (this has happened to me with multiple side projects)

… But when Moffatt later attempted to receive the discount, he learned that the chatbot had been wrong. Air Canada only awarded bereavement fees if the request had been submitted before a flight. The airline later argued the chatbot was a separate legal entity “responsible for its own actions,”….

How exactly do you go about making a chatbot a legal entity?

In the books, Reacher was violent when he needed to be. The author made him ‘huge/large’ and his size enabled his act of violence/ability to mete out justice to the bad guys. Reacher’s size in the books is why folks complained when Tom Cruise starred as Reacher in the movies

Reacher is based on the books. The ‘new’ characters were in the book (they were part of Reacher’s team and were being killed off).

Sorry, I'm not quite clear what you mean. Do you mind explaining again?

Yes. At the bottom - it says coming soon. I should probably move it to the top.

A significant number of folks (especially non-professional developers) make a choice on which library/project to use based on the number of GitHub stars. For these people, the more number of stars, the more it means the 'package is good/useful'. You can argue it isn't the best/most effective way but it's quite common.

1) Lots of Wordpress (WP) sites. This makes it quite easy to find devs (to maintain the website in the future). There are also lots of plugins making it easy to add functionality/features.

But easy availability of plugins leads to high probability of hacking. Put another way, a WP site needs constant monitoring/upgrades of the plugins to avoid being hacked. This means $$ out of pocket for website owners but money for developers.

2) Personally, I don’t recommend WP. I prefer Python/Flask (I’m more familiar with it) or Django. You can build the site and essentially forget about it.

In addition, I prefer separating front end code from back end code (for WP, you use PHP which combines both html and server side code in same file)

Google shouldn't automatically remove you but

1. They should contact the firms involved, make them aware of the situation and then the firms will take a decision on whether to remove or not.

2. They should then look over GCP design and see if there's something that they can do to prevent a reoccurrence of this type of error/mistake

> then a fraction of the web addresses you visit will be sent to Brave

I get that but if it's a new site, the number of people visiting will be extremely small if not non-existent. The possibilities that I see are

a) The new website is first noted on something like social media and you found it from there and then accessed it via Brave browser

b) You use Google search or Bing within Brave browser and you find the site (because it was submitted to Google or Bing)

Read the announcement and it looks like there isn't an option to submit a site for crawling. If that's true, how do they discover new sites? My understanding of the 'the Web Discovery project' is that they're indexing your search and the results you click, anonymously but you won't see new sites in your search results which in turn means the new site won't be indexed by them

Some of them have migrated away from Google Groups

Example - Google App Engine group has moved away from Google Groups to Google Cloud Community [1]

1. https://groups.google.com/g/google-appengine

Electron is very well known & has a large footprint - lots of existing tutorials, extensions/plugins/libraries, regular bug fixes. There are also lots of existing large Apps that can serve as reference. If you Google - building cross-platform desktop Apps, most of the results will point to electron.

If you already know JavaScript (lots of people do) & are trying to quickly get your App up & running, then it can make sense to just go with Electron rather than trying to learn a new language like Rust.

Both reasons were why I picked electron to build https://nocommandline.com

Yes, Electron Apps are big but in the grand scheme of things, they might not matter so much for now (laptops are being built with bigger memories, Apps are being improved to manage memory).

E2E for the core & commonly used features. But I plan to add more E2E tests for less commonly used features that I’d still consider core (these are manually tested for now due to time constraints).

Ability to remove yourself from a project has been a feature request from users since at least 2016[1]

1. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35903415

Not a woman. They hired Thomas Kurian from Oracle [1]

1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kurian-469b6219

Serverless on Google Cloud (it scales and no manual management)

1. If DB is needed - Google App Engine with Datastore (default) or Firestore

2. If no DB - Google App Engine (default) or Cloud Run

Congrats on the launch.

I’m curious about a few things

Isn’t it better to have a distinct ‘playground’ for marketers, PMs, UX/UI (separate from what Dev is working on)?

Shouldn’t PM/Marketers be dealing with very minimal stuff (like mock-ups, Visio Diagrams)? My immediate thought is that having these folks spend considerable time on (what you have described) almost seems like a waste of man-hours because at the end of the day, what Dev builds for code will be way better and efficient.

Finally, how do you plan to compete with tools like Figma and others which are positioned to allow the people you’re targeting create quick mock-ups (personally, I think those Apps are also not that easy to use)