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How Sick Are Your Skills? Oracle Application Express Developer Competition 2009

You can always gauge the traction of a particular developer technology based on the braggadocio of its practitioners. At OTN, one of our jobs is to ride the...

You can always gauge the traction of a particular developer technology based on the braggadocio of its practitioners. At OTN, one of our jobs is to ride the wave of that braggadocio, which after all is simply the most obvious byproduct of passion. The newest example is the just-announced Oracle Application Express Developer Competition 2009, in which the Oracle APEX and OTN teams seek to find the best examples of "sick" Oracle Application Express skills in the land. As...

links for 2009-06-27

OTN Architect Day Heads West (ArchBeat)The people I talked with at the Architect Day events Boston, Toronto, and New York expressed genuine appreciation not...

OTN Architect Day Heads West (ArchBeat)The people I talked with at the Architect Day events Boston, Toronto, and New York expressed genuine appreciation not just for the content of the various presentations, but also the chance to rub elbows, compare notes, and talk shop with their peers in the architect community.(tags: oracle otn architect arch2arch events)HP Oracle Database Machine, New Approach to Data Warehousing"By replacing the FC link between the host database and...

Podcast Show Notes: Application Grid - Under the Hood

The latest OTN Arch2Arch Podcast  features an interview with Bill Dettelback. Bill is a Principal Product Manager at Oracle, and is recognized for his expertise...

The latest OTN Arch2Arch Podcast  features an interview with Bill Dettelback. Bill is a Principal Product Manager at Oracle, and is recognized for his expertise with WebLogic Server, Coherence, Tuxedo, and other Application Grid products. Prior to joining Oracle, Bill was the Product Manager for AquaLogic Enterprise Security at BEA. Bill has spent over 15 years working on enterprise middleware solutions for the Financial Services and Telecommunications industries. In this...

OTN Architect Day Heads West

After stops this past spring in Boston,  Toronto, and the Big Apple, OTN Architect Day is headed west for two stops in California in July: July 9 – Westin...

After stops this past spring in Boston,  Toronto, and the Big Apple, OTN Architect Day is headed west for two stops in California in July: July 9 – Westin Pasadena Hotel, Pasadena, CA (More information) July 22 – Hotel Sofitel, Redwood Shores, CA (More information) The people I talked with at the Architect Day events Boston, Toronto, and New York expressed genuine appreciation not just for the content of the various presentations, but also the chance to rub elbows, compare...

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Oracle Fusion Middeware 11g ACE Director Briefing: "July 1 will be a happy day" (OTN TechBlog)In this casual video interview with OTN's Justin Kestelyn, Oracle...

Oracle Fusion Middeware 11g ACE Director Briefing: "July 1 will be a happy day" (OTN TechBlog)In this casual video interview with OTN's Justin Kestelyn, Oracle ACE Director Chris Bucchere says that after attending the recent Oracle Fusion Middleware briefing, "The acquisition of BEA is finally going to make sense to me now."(tags: oracle fusionmiddleware oracleace)What is going on in the BI/DW world? (The Data Warehouse Insider)Jean-Pierre Dijcks summarizes the panel...

Thanks for the Memories, ODTUG and Oracle ACEs

And now, a brief photo show from ODTUG Kaleidoscope; add comments with links to your own:Oracle ACE Director Briefing @ Oracle HQ: The waiting is the hardest...

And now, a brief photo show from ODTUG Kaleidoscope; add comments with links to your own:Oracle ACE Director Briefing @ Oracle HQ: The waiting is the hardest partThe delightful Oracle ACE Director Lucas JellemaL to R: ACE Director (and Java Champion) Harshad Oak, OTN's own Todd Trichler (ODTUG's "Oracle Contributor of the Year"), great mates & ACE Directors Richard Foote and Marcel KratochvilOracle ACE Director Ron BatraThe ACE Wranglers: OTN's Vikki Lira and Lillian...

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Oracle VM 2.1.5 (Wim Coekaerts Blog)Wim Coekaerts offers key points of the recent Oracle VM 2.1.5 release.(tags: virtualization)AMIS Technology blog » Blog...

Oracle VM 2.1.5 (Wim Coekaerts Blog)Wim Coekaerts offers key points of the recent Oracle VM 2.1.5 release.(tags: virtualization)AMIS Technology blog » Blog Archive » Oracle Fusion Applications - it is for real! (and impressive too)"Here at the ODTUG 2009 conference, I have learned that Fusion Applications are for real, " writes Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema. "And I have seen them as well. And I was impressed. After several years of hearing, interpreting and to some extent...

Oracle Fusion Middeware 11g ACE Director Briefing: "July 1 will be a happy day"

I caught up with Oracle ACE Director Chris Bucchere - the "only Plumtree guy" in the ACE pantheon, as he likes to call himself - shortly after his ODTUG...

I caught up with Oracle ACE Director Chris Bucchere - the "only Plumtree guy" in the ACE pantheon, as he likes to call himself - shortly after his ODTUG afternoon tech session on getting started with Oracle WebLogic Server. Chris' enthusiasm for what he heard in the ACE Director briefing about Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is infectious, and I wanted to capture it on video:Chris' outfit, bdg, has also done some exciting development work for Oracle Mix in the context of Oracle...

Where Else But ODTUG?....

Would you bump into Steven Feuerstein while he's in the middle of a jog?Would you see people actually *wearing* their Oracle ACE Director red vests (aka...

Would you bump into Steven Feuerstein while he's in the middle of a jog?Would you see people actually *wearing* their Oracle ACE Director red vests (aka "Stanleys"), not just abusing them?Are people happy to sit through eight straight hours of technical sessions from Tom Kyte, should there be somewhere to stand in the room?Nowhere else, my friends, except ODTUG Kaleidoscope, where I happen to be this week (in Monterey, Calif.)The conference began memorably last evening, with...