Controllers, At Last!

Posted by Allan Mai on November 08, 2017 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c, controllers, WebCenter Sites Developer Tools

The buzz-worthy release of Oracle's WebCenter Sites 12c gives us many reasons to perk up and take note. Among the unveiled features is a long-overdue Model-View-Controller framework; this shiny, new implementation finally provides developers with a clear and clean path for wiring together and rendering content. In the past, we had described a few work-arounds that were viable stand-ins for this piece...

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Splunking The Billboard Hot 100 with help from the Spotify API

Posted by Karthik Subramanian on November 01, 2017 Operational Intelligence music, Splunk 6.x, Operational Intelligence

There's a lot of data out there and once we put it into Splunk, there's a lot of interesting information we can pull out of it, so why not have a trip down memory lane and see what sort of songs pop up when going through the Billboard Hot 100 charts from now back to 2000?

First, I found a scraper for the data - thank you Allen Guo for your Billboard charts scraper - and output the data in this format: 

date | title | artist | weeks | delta | current | peak | previous | spotifyID

I did so with this python script:

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Splunk 7 Event Annotations and You!

Posted by Alex Wade on October 24, 2017 Operational Intelligence Splunk 7.0, Cool Tools, Splunk

If you're anything our team at Function1, you can't wait to experiment with all of Splunk 7's dynamic new features. One of these features is “Event Annotations,” a powerful tool to highlight charts. At the moment, Event Annotations can be used in time-series charts. They are relatively simple to use; all you need is a separate search on your dashboard of type=annotation, with the annotation_label defined as the field you want to show as an annotation, and the annotation_category defined as the field to group your annotations by type. There is a simple but comprehensive example in the...

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I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts!!!

Posted by Mitul Patel on October 18, 2017 Function1, Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c, Upgrade, Bug
A Campfire and a Scary Story

With All Hallows Eve aka Halloween fast approaching (my favorite made-up holiday of the year), I figured I would share a little tale of fright, mayhem, blood, and hair raising shrieks in the night... you know, to get you in a spooky mood. So, here goes nothin'... [The setting is night time around a camp fire in a dark wooded area] Once upon a time in quaint southern town, the home of a massive titan of web commerce, there was a web content management deployment with the name WebCenter Sites (WCS). About 3 or 4 months ago, WCS users were ecstatic as they were...

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