Recent Posts by Grant Ronald

Mobile has been a topic that has been making a buzz around the conferences over the past year so it is good to hear Oracle's official position.  On Thursday 12th December there will be a webinar held jointly with Gartner to discuss Oracle's mobile strategy The challenges of enterprise mobile development How Oracle's Mobile Platform addresses those challenges The webinar is free and you can register here.

Just a reminder that a set of three Oracle Developer Days focused on Oracle ADF are starting out on today . Top Ten Secrets of Successful Oracle Application Development Framework Projects Improve Your ADF Fusion Application's Response Time by as Much as 70 Percent Best Practices for Developing Applications with Oracle ADF Mobile Best Practices in Oracle ADF Development Developing Mobile Web Applications with Oracle ADF Faces Debugging and logging for Oracle ADF applications There is...

Oracle is running a 3 day workshop on ADF Design and Architecture.  This is not a beginners course, its a deep dive into the design and architectural decision you have to consider when embarking on an ADF project.  Its running  3-6 December , 2013: Düsseldorf, Germany and topics include: " Planning & Get Started - Team, Skills and Development Environments " ADF Reusable Artifacts " Advanced Task Flows " ADF Architectural Patterns " Task Flow Navigation Patterns" Task Flow Data...

There is an Oracle roadshow about to kick off covering topics such as Cloud, Big Data and Mobile.  Mobile (my area of interest) is a real hot topic in business now with many moving to a "mobile first" development approach.  I'll be there talking about mobile and Oracle's solution for mobile offerings.  The UK/Ireland events are in London, Manchester and Dublin.  Places are of course limited but registration is open

Last week I was delivering a Application Usability workshop with Ultan O'Broin to Oracle UK partners.  This workshop was all about building great looking usable apps with Oracle ADF.  Ultan has a great write up of the class here.  There are more of these events running gloablly in 2013-2014.  The next will be in San Francisco on the 5th and 6th November.

The ADF Academy series which focusus on ADF Mobile has been updated to inlcude a new chapter on ADF Mobile security.  A great learning resource for getting up to speed on ADF Mobile.

I'm running an event Building Usable Apps with ADF and ADF Mobile with Ultan from  the UX team at Oracle's UK Reading offices on the 17th-18th October and will cover many aspects of building usable applications based on Oracle ADF and Mobile.  This is an opportunity for Oracle partners to learn about the UX side of application development - and remember, the expectations of users on mobile applications is much higher given the commodity nature of mobile devices.  So come and...

Big data is one of those terms we are seeing banded about but what does it mean to you as a developer?  To help get you up to speed the UKOUG Development SIG are hosting a day centered around Big Data.  Sept 11th at the UK Oracle offices in Reading you'll hear from various experts on what Big Data means for businesses and for developers.  

I'm very pleased to announce that the ADF Real World Architecture and Design Principles course scheduled to run in India in September.  Not only is the great content developed by leading ADF experts in conjuction with Oracle's Fusion Apps team, but its also being presented by one of the shining lights in ADF-land; Jobinesh Purushothaman who wrote "The Real World Developer's Guide" If you would like to attend this course please click the link above and let us know if you have...