In this blog, I'll cover all sorts of issues relating to what we call "user assistance" in Oracle Fusion Apps - messages (all sorts, errors, warnings, and more), embedded help, and nonembedded help. I'll focus especially on the design and deployment of user assistance, and how is relates to user experience in general.

For now you might like to check out a recent usableapps posting about the use of writing patterns.

Zend Technology, Microsoft’s little open source PHP friend, says it’s making its Zend application server, designed for running and managing business-critical PHP applications in production, available to Oracle’s enterprise customers through Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux Network.

The end of the year is upon us, or says the retailers! It is a time for giving and goodwill, and all that feel-good stuff. But recently reading the announcement that a number of thought leaders came together in the name of bringing a smidgen of sanity to the SOA debate was surely an early gift. (I am now prepared for my annual receiving of socks and paisley ties!)