OTN TechBlog

The inaugural OTN Architect Day is occurring in Boston at this very moment; we have Twitpic photos to prove it.

(The ever-delightful Clemens Utschig-Utschig; thanks, @cpurdy)

(The crowd; thanks, @brhubart)

Experience the event virtually, tweet-by-tweet, courtesy of Bob Rhubart (@brhubart).

For a great example of "informal" innovation and collaboration at work, look no further than the new Oracle People iPhone App, the complete story documented by AppsLab Jake in this post.

Oracle peeps Clayton Donley, Rich Manalang, Noel Portugal, Jake, and certainly others I have not mentioned had a great idea and just. did. it. Unfortunately, only employees can partake, but there are some nice screenshots in Jake's post.

I've installed it myself and love the thing.

Next up: how about an OTN iPhone app, built in ADF? We're chatting about it.

I got word from Oracle ACE Director (Fusion Middleware) Chris Muir this morning about an interesting milestone.

Chris and other members of his Oz-based outfit, SAGE Computing Services (including Oracle ACE Penny Cookson), worked closely with fellow Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema and his compadres at Netherlands-based AMIS to design a new five-day Oracle training course for end-users of Oracle JDeveloper 11g and its associated ADF Business Components and ADF Faces Rich Client. That course is now officially part of the SAGE catalog, which includes training modules for many other technologies as well.

This is the first case we know of in which Oracle ACEs from around the globe have reached out to work together on curriculum or other training materials - or at least the first time such materials have seen the light of day.

Learn more about this curriculum in Chris' blog post here.