I attempted to send the following message to the Mix email address published above, but it bounced. The gist of my email was as follows (apologies for the cut n paste):

Hi Oracle Mix team

Well done on the new site. This has huge amounts of potential.

Regards the email confirmation process, this is currently failing for myself and as such I can’t create ideas.

I’ve registered as Chris Muir, and have received the confirmation email asking me to click on one of the 2 confirm links. However on navigating back to the Oracle Mix website after clicking on either link, then selecting the Confirm button, my profile page still shows the following message:

“We haven’t validated your email address yet, or your email is not an Oracle customer email address. Please check your email and confirm your address.”

In turn I can’t create ideas for the same reason.

Could you please look into this issue? I notice others are lodging the same complaint under the Messages for the Oracle Mix group within the site.

Thanks & regards,

Chris Muir

I’ll save all the details for another blog post, but basically, the team was comprised of me (Rich) and 4 ruby guys from ThoughtWorks. It was a fabulous team. One guy, Ola, works on jRuby core… so that helped a ton. The actual dev time actually only took about 3.5-4 weeks. The project started 6 weeks ago, but dev was compressed to a shorter time period. Development was done in an agile fashion (ThoughtWorks, defines agile).

Anyway, I’ll post more details on this before the week is over.

Rich

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