Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

2 Minute Tech Tips (2MTT) are very short YouTube videos in which thought leaders from across the Oracle and Java communities, representing a broad range of specialties and expertise, deliver nuggets of useful insight lasting 120 seconds or less. The list below includes the most-watched 2 Minute Tech Tips published in 2019. In some cases 2MTTs take the form of mini-presentations or demos, like those of Java Champion Adam Bien, who dominates this list with six videos. In other...

Why get stuck on the beach when you can ride the tide of insight and expertise found in these recent blog posts from members of the Oracle ACE program?   Brendan Tierney Principal Consultant, Oralytics Dublin, Ireland   R (ROracle) and Oracle DATE Formats Applying a Machine Learning Model in OAC Erik Benner Vice President, Enterprise Transformation, Mythics Inc Atlanta, Georgia   An Easier Way to Move a WordPress Site How to Automatically Load ssh Keys When Windows 10 Boots...

Do you hear that? That's the sound of developers preparing for RMOUG Training Days 2020. Hosted by the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group, RMOUG Training Days "is the premier (and largest) grass-roots Oracle user training event in the U.S., offering an incredible variety of technical and functional educational sessions over three days from world-renowned experts." The hefty roster of speakers and sessions includes the Oracle ACE program members listed below. If you're in...

This program features a very special conversation about the current state and future of Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower. Kelsey is a developer advocate, an open source aficionado, and a widely recognized expert on Kubernetes. He is the creator of the open source tutorial Kubernetes The Hard Way, available on Github, and he is a co-author of Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive Into the Future of Infrastructure, the second edition of which is now available from O’Reilly Media. “When...

Tangled up in a technical problem? One of these recent blog posts by members of the Oracle ACE program just might tip the scales in your favor, and then you can unwind... Gianni Ceresa Managing Director/Owner, DATAlysis GmbH Lausanne, Switzerland   JupyterLab Sandbox in an Oracle Cloud Compute Instance Marcel Hofstetter CEO/Enterprise Consultant, JomaSoft St. Gallen, Switzerland   My Solaris Highlights 2019 Ron Ekins Oracle Solution Architect, Office of the CTO, Pure StorageHaywa...

If you got any cash or gift cards as holiday gifts you might consider beefing up your personal library and your technical knowledge by investing in a few of these recent books by members of the Oracle ACE program. Burying your face in good tech book is a great way to spend those long winter nights -- if you're in the northern hemisphere. And if you're in the southern hemisphere, you're going to need something to read at the beach. (Don't forget the sunscreen.) Oracle Digital...

The Oracle Groundbreakers podcast has been around in one form or another since March of 2009. The primary focus is on panel discussions featuring people who represent the broad Oracle developer community, including many members of the Oracle ACE Program, Groundbreaker Ambassadors, and Java Champions, as well as a wide array Oracle product managers and other internal experts. Eventually the podcast became the most downloaded Oracle podcast, and it remains in that position...

Soak in some insight and expertise from these recent blog posts by members of the Oracle ACE program. David Kurtz Consultant, Accenture Enkitec Group London, United Kingdom   Extended Column Group Statistics, Composite Index Statistics, Histograms and an EDB360 Enhancement to Detect the Coincidence Franck Pachot Data Engineer, CERN Lausanne, Switzerland   Finding the deleted TYPE when ANYDATA raises ORA-21700: object does not exist or is marked for delete Jim CzuprynskiSenior...

Given the breathtaking pace of change in IT, what we will encounter in the road ahead -- in a new year and a new decade -- is anybody's guess. But the day to day work continues, including the following examples of the time and effort members of the Oracle ACE program put into sharing their insight and expertise. Welcome to 2020! Debra Lilley Associate Director, Accenture Belfast, United Kingdom   What A Free Oracle Database Means To These 4 Developers Yenugula Venkata RavikumarOr...