It’s the end of the year and everyone seems to be doing there tax returns and stat analysis.
So here are the Bluestudios stats for last year..

Quick Overview of my monthly visitors..

This is easier to visualise over the daily stats as my weekend stats drop down to around 120 visitors – daily visitors are around 160 mark but have spiked to 300 depending on the post.

In total BlueStudios reached 44,528 visits over the previous year where it only achieved 30,118.

Country breakdown

Breakdown of the top 10 countries::

1. United States – 11,403

2. United Kingdom – 4,545

3. India – 3,763

4. Germany – 1,826

5. Canada – 1,698

6. Australia – 1,652

7. Brazil – 1,263

8. Netherlands – 1,008

9. France – 1,005

10. Spain – 990

Mobile Devices

Not many mobile devices accessed Bluestudios but I haven’t put in the support or time to blog about much on mobile devices. But still interesting to see that there are users accessing the site with a handheld device

… ok, if you were curious to know what – Danger Hiptop is – I just found out it’s a T-Mobile Sidekick.. Strange name.

Top Referring websites::

blogs.oracle.com
Oracles blog aggregator

pmoskovi.wordpress.com
Peter Moskovitz Webcenter Blog

corecontentonly.com
Jason Stortz Oracle UCM Blog

itnewscast.com
Oracle aggregator

bexhuff.com
We all know of Bex – Never met in person though..

twitter.com
My blog gets featured on twitter?! wow.. I don’t tweet.. Maybe I should start..
There are people who tweet about bluestudios.. hmm I bet it is all bad stuff…

forums.oracle.com
I used to be one of the UCM guys helping others in the top 10 list of helpers but this last year I havent had the time and all efforts have been dedicated to Webcenter Spaces

cfour.fishbowlsolutions.com
Fishbowls Solutions – US based Oracle consulting company.
These guys are one of the best out there for providing unique and innovative solutions to there clients.. They’ve even helped me out. They also have Billy Cripe leading the way on E2.0.

theappslab.com
Adopted into Oracle – I always get so jealous of this team.. They get to do what I consider to be the fun stuff and branch out to create unique innovative apps / tools with a great UI. In the last year most of the blogging has been on mobile devices and I believe these guys are really pushing apps to the limit and I’m sure 2011 will be there year to impress us all.

club-oracle.com
Not sure how I got featured here – I think through their blogs and people linking back to me.

cmstechie.blogspot.com
A great blogger – and one you should follow he always has good advice to give.

fishbowlsolutions.com
Fishbowl Solutions Corporate site

contentoncontentmanagement.com
David Roes’ blog – I`m not sure whats happened with David he just seems to have stopped but he used to come out with great ideas and awesome components releasing them before Oracle do – i.e setting media server to using S3 as a data store for UCM. etc go check him out if you haven’t

hishamgalal.blogspot.com
Hisham Galals blog – Previously an Oracle Consultant now setup on his own but provides useful snippets of info that you may not be aware of.

andrealmar.wordpress.com
Andre Almar – Another ECM Blogger interesting articles and often ahead of the rest with access to the beta Oracle software.

oraclecommunity.net
I’m not part of this site but I’m getting the hits you may want to check them out and signup they seem to have a lot of Oracle members.

iandevlin.com
Web Guru like myself – Ian gets stuck into anything and everything a bit like myself keeping up with the latest web technologies.

webmonkeymagic.blogspot.com
Aussie based web monkey – always keep an eye on this blog for useful code snippets and ideas.

Top Keywords::

oracle wallpaper, oracle ucm 11g, jtds connection string, cleartype css, javascript ternary, aves engine, javascript webdav, ucm 11g, ucm components, john sim, jquery game engine, webcenter spaces cross site scripting, stellent components, webcenter ps3, webcenter vs sharepoint, ucm desktop integration suite.

So a last week the Mozilla team setup a geek gamer browser tech event down in London.
Although I was also in London I could not make it due to Oracle commitments but for all those of you out there who also missed the presentation go check them out here::

http://mozillalabs.com/gaming/2010/12/09/game_on-2010-150-gamer-geeks-pack-out-london/

It looks like the SimDraz engine is doing all the right things, I`m happy to say..
I was hoping to enter the engine in the mozilla challenge but it is still a long way off from release

It was a bit dissapointing to see Paul Bakaus did not make the event and discuss – he still in my opinion and from the work I`ve seen him and his team do would consider them to be one of the leaders in future html 5 game releases..

New UCM blogger Sena Sound Bites only a couple posts.. But what I see looks interesting and in depth
Got check them out and get them added to your feed.

I`ve never had any experience with this team but the posts do look good – so will be keeping a close eye on them to see what useful info they release!

.. So whilst grabbing some lunch and surfing I came across Google Slam great UI in flash and UIX was interesting…

The ninja Video made me smile and its time to share for all you ninjas out there….

No updates.. on the SimDraz Engine the team has been exceptionally busy these past couple of month so no real updates..

But we are on the case; we are currently investigating improved transport method for out websocket/ajax client server communication currently we are using gzipped JSON but after a recent discovery looks like we will be moving towards BiSON – BiSON saves us between 20 to 45 percent of size when compared to JSON. With the average saving being around one third. This means faster timings and interaction for you and less bandwidth requirement so its a win win situation.. There are a few issues with BiSON but nothing we cant currently work around!..

Its all looking good though..

For those who want to investigate BiSON more for data transfer check out this links -

https://github.com/BonsaiDen/BiSON.js

NodeJS integration:

http://zaa.ch/post/918947520/jison-now-with-more-bison-flavor

http://zaach.github.com/jison/docs/

Ok so last year I blogged about Oracle releasing a .Net Site – Enterprise 2.0 TV .. Why they did it, I dont know?
You could produce the same site with Oracle Technology like ADF; or UCM Site Studio etc but who cares..

They have gone and done it again?
I now believe Oracle to have a secret Microsoft development team hidden away like a small parasite..

Oracle purchased Stellents Content Management system a good couple years ago now..
And following the acquisition they converted and moved there entire web internal and external environments onto the newly branded Oracle UCM app.
Great move and I believe end of this year the whole web environment would have been completely transformed..

So please tell me why are you still producing these .Net sites?
BTW.. I love the screencast of the site at the Oracle offices – but unfortunately I couldn’t say much when I saw the site for the first time today.. doesn’t look as good on my laptop ..

This isn’t an attack on .Net not at all I love the Visual Studio environment and it has come along so much since the early days when I moved from asp vbscript to the first edition of .Net – that couldn’t even handle XHTML doc type in it’s infancy.. But it has just gone from strength to strength in my eyes although I don’t get to do much if any .Net C# scripting these days..

.. .. I just can’t seem to connect the dots… Ok; maybe you outsourced it but why outsource it to a company who is developing with rival technology?

ok; skip the technology geeky stuff.. I have to say I quite like the concept.. Ask the experts and can’t wait to find a question to put the experts on the spot and see if they can come up with a great answer.
I love the fact they are integrating twitter; linkedin; pointing to blogs giving access to vital resources.. .. wait a sec.. they have redeveloped Spaces in .Net mini social updating portlets and ucm integration concept..!

ok.. thats my rant of the year done..

Next some positive steps Oracle guides.. Maybe also show off some android – iphone things I`ve been playing with on Appcelerator….

Anyone emailing me or accessing bluestudios services this week may have issues I’m having problem with my DNS at the moment..

Fingers crossed issue will be fixed in a week

Here Here you go simple quick Canvas clock::

Your browser does not support the canvas tag

Download the JS source
And add your canvas tag before the script..

For ADF -

<!-- Canvas Clock -->
 <f:verbatim>
	<canvas id="canvas" width="60" height="60"></canvas>
</f:verbatim>
<trh:script source="/js/bs.canvas.js"></trh:script>
<!-- xCanvas Clock -->

or better –
Instead of the trinidad tag use adf:

<af:resource type="javascript" source="/js/bs.canvas.js"/>

Sometimes you`ll want to add custom tag like <canvas> which isn’t generated with ADF; or if it is – please tell me

The simple way I have overcome this when working with Spaces templates is to wrap the JSF f:verbatim tag around the html I want to output.

<f:verbatim>
<canvas id=”canvas” width=”60″ height=”60″></canvas>
</f:verbatim>

From here I can use Javascript to generate a BBC styled clock release in my next post..

This is probably quite old now for some of you; but my head has been racing with ideas and thinking new ways to navigate Spaces; find content quickly and make the User Experience more fun.
Often I`ll scrawl through sites for ideas and recently I found one that stood out from the rest -  a Facebook Facelift project developed by Barton Smith.

It’s a shame facebook weren’t interested in this UIX approach; check out the video..
But this would be an interesting UIX approach for Spaces collaboration – I’m actually drawing up a few concepts and story boards based on a similar type of interactivity for a few Spaces design projects I’m working on at the moment.

I can see it all working and with a bit on WebSocket magic this would be awesome for Spaces.. But the development time for this type of interesting project is more effort than I am willing to put in over my spare time..
Sometimes though I wish Oracle would put aside some money for their UI and setup a great team to become leaders with new creative methods of interaction – but the closest thing I have seen to real creative flair are from The AppsLab Team and the guys who work on the Oracle Cloud Office -