Recent Posts by Javed Mohammed

It is hard to believe that a year has passed since the Oracle Groundbreakers Latin America Tour LATAM 2019.  A lot has transpired in this year. Due to the current worldwide lockdown, this years tour is virtual.  The good news about this is that the event is not limited by geography so you have an opportunity to attend any or all of the events. The event will be held from From August 17 to  August 28, 2020. Below you will find a video that features the organizers and track...

In my early days of being a Computer Engineer designing CPUs, I was always fascinated by speed. The speed of switching of transistors, the delay through a gate, the size of its pipeline, multiple arithmetic units, parallel pipelines and then the last thing I got to work on tightly or loosely coupled clusters, the foundation for modern supercomputers. My engineering days are long gone, but it's memorable not only thinking back to those days but also where CPUs and computing...

As many of you know, International Women’s Day (IWD) this year is Sunday, March 8th and  in prior years, during the week preceding IWD and on that day, we have taken the opportunity to highlight women Advocates (ACES, Groundbreakers, Java Champions) and other community members who understand and walk the walk of engaging with promoting a diverse group of people in their careers. To highlight our own "best of the best" in the developer community, below you will find both photos...

As an Oracle Community Manager, I attend many events where I record and or livestream interviews with speakers and attendees. I do other things that involve setup/tear down of demos which also comes in handy. To do interviews I traditionally carried a large roller with all the professional Audio/Video gear. However, I have discovered that at some events it pays to be more nimble and I can get away with a mobile set up that includes a Monopod, microphones, and an iPhone...

By Chris Bensen, Cloud Experience Developer at Oracle I’ve built a lot of crazy things in my life but the “Escape Rooms” for Code One 2018 might just be one of the craziest. And funnest! The initial idea for our escape room came from Toni Epple where a Java based escape room was built for a German conference. We thought it was rather good, and escape rooms are trendy and fun so we decided to dial it up to eleven for 2018 Code One attendees. The concept was to have two escape...

Stories are a window into life. They can if they resonate provide insights into our own lives or the lives of others.They can help us transmit  knowledge, pass on traditions, solve present day problems or allow us to imagine alternate realities. Open Source software is an example of an alternate reality in software development, where proprietary has been replaced in large part with sharing code that is free and open. How is this relevant to not only developers but people...

By Noel Portugal,  Senior Cloud Experience Developer at Oracle   Code Card 2018 For years I’ve been wanting to create something fun with the almighty esp8266 WiFi chip. I started experimenting with the esp8266 almost exactly four years ago. Back then there was no Arduino, Lua or even MicroPython ports for the chip, only the C Espressif SDK. Today it is fairly easy to write firmware for the ESP given how many documented projects are out there. IoT Badge by fab-lab.eu Two years...

By Christopher Bensen and Noel Portugal, Cloud Experience Developers If you are attending Oracle Code One or Open World 2018, you will be happy to hear that the Matrix Bullet Time Demo will be there. You can experience it by coming to Moscone West in the Developer Exchange and inside the GroundBreakers Hub. Last year we went into the challenges of building the Matrix Bullet Time Demo (https://developer.oracle.com/java/bullet-time). A lot of problems were encountered after that...

 "Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."   The 2018 Developers Motorcycle Tour will start their engines on May 8th, rolling through Japan and Europe to visit User Groups, Java Day Tokyo and Code events. Join Stephen Chin, Sebastian Daschner, and other community luminaries to catch up on the latest technologies and products, as well as bikes, food, Sumo, football or anything fun.    Streaming live from every location! Watch their sessions online at @OracleDevs and...