Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

For year’s I used an X220 ThinkPad. It was a great companion on hundreds of business trips. On it’s excellent keyboard I wrote most of the community newsletters. The model was launched in 2011, during the years I piped it with 16 GB RAM and two SSD drives. Which where a great help to run demos and trainings based on virtual box. The raise of cloud computing gave it’s CPU a second spring. With mandatory move to Windows 10 it’s time to say goodbye to a good friend – thanks for...

A collection of in-depth conversations with leading developer advocates that reveal the world of developer relations today What exactly is a developer advocate, and how do they connect developers and companies around the world? Why is the area of developer relations set to explode? Can anybody with a passion for tech become a developer advocate? What are the keys to success on a global scale? How does a developer advocate maintain authenticity when balancing the needs of their...

Digital Transformation: We’ve Faced the Same Challenges at Oracle The hardest part of a digital transformation is often not the computers or software, but “the entire rethinking of how to operate in a modern global environment,” says Oracle CEO Safra Catz, who spoke at the recent Oracle OpenWorld Europe in London. But these transformations can lead to better customer understanding, financial decisions, and operations. At Oracle, by using the company’s own cloud-based...

We launched three new local Meetup locations in Cairo, Frankfurt and Porto! Want to learn more about developing Enterprise-grade Cloud Native applications on the Oracle Cloud Platform, covering topics like Microservices Architecture, developing in Node, Python and PHP, using Low Code development tools to build Mobile apps, and much more? Join the Oracle Developer Meetup groups if you want to follow Oracle’s solutions in this area, or participate in the events and hands-on...

Managing Oracle Process Cloud Service application includes assigning roles to users or groups to initiate the process, approve/reject the assigned task etc. Roles assigned to end users define their permissions, such as task assignment and whether they can start an application. By default, roles get created for each swimlane defined in an application’s processes. Some important link which might help you to extend your knowledge Web Application in Oracle Visual Builder Parent Child...

· Introduction to the New ODA Conversation Designer by Frank Nimphius · Announcing Java 13: News from Oracle Code One 2019 · Oracle Functions: Using Key Management To Encrypt And Decrypt Configuration Variables by Todd Sharp · Storing Image Files in Your Database from a Visual Builder App by Shay Shmeltzer · Tired Of Apps? Try Implementing Digital Assistants by Gustavo Gonzalez · Intelligent Content Platform: Built to Innovate by Lee Ribeiro · The Cloud Native Equation: The...

With the Oracle Integration Cloud, when you have to call a service from a Process you can choose to call an external service directly or you can put an Integration in between. This article gives some directives why you may want to do the latter, and how to prevent a pitfall that is easy to step in to. To call a service you have to import the WSDL with it's XSD's. With that Business Types are auto-generated for all complexTypes in that XSD. Recently I was refactoring a case...

At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camp IX 2019 in Lisbon, held at the end of August, I followed a 5 day during workshop called “Modern Application Development with Oracle Cloud”. In this workshop, on day 4, the topic was “WebLogic on Kubernetes”. At the Summer Camp we used a free Oracle Cloud trial account. On day 4, I did a hands-on lab in which an Oracle WebLogic Domain was deployed on an Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) cluster using Oracle WebLogic Server...

We are living in the new normal and the next year will prove to be unlike any in the past. Information is changing at a rapid pace and students, faculty, and staff want fast, up-to-date answers. IntraSee’s COVID-19 bot for Higher Education can address these needs and be deployed in as little as a week. This AI bot uses the same ODA Platform our full enterprise digital assistants run on and comes pre-built with over 70 COVID-19 questions specific to your institution. Webcast...