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Hard Core Advanced ADF Training - from Frank Nimphius!

Many of you will know Frank Nimphius as an ADF Guru, co-author of the Fusion Developer Guide, blogger, and ADF Code Corner author (and all round nice guy as...

Many of you will know Frank Nimphius as an ADF Guru, co-author of the Fusion Developer Guide, blogger, and ADF Code Corner author (and all round nice guy as well).  Frank will be delivering some advanced ADF training in Portugal on the 20th - 24th June.  This is part of the SOA Partner Community.  Please note, this is NOT for ADF newbies (or the faint hearted) but for people who have already implemented ADF projects.  Full details and registration available here.

Virtually staffing the virtual developer day

Currently being moderator for the OTN Virtual Developer Day which is running in the EMEA timezone.  Loads of great ADF content and loads of questions coming in...

Currently being moderator for the OTN Virtual Developer Day which is running in the EMEA timezone.  Loads of great ADF content and loads of questions coming in as well!

Free Oracle User Group Conference

The Scottish  Oracle User Group is being promoted as a free event for the whole Oracle community.  The event is taking place on the 8th June in the Oracle (used...

The Scottish  Oracle User Group is being promoted as a free event for the whole Oracle community.  The event is taking place on the 8th June in the Oracle (used to be the Sun office) near Edinburgh.  The agenda is available here. I'll be presenting on Forms to ADF and will also deliver a session on Oracle ADF Tips and Tricks.  There is also a session from Rob Nocera from VGO/NEOS on becoming and ADF "believer".A day of free Oracle training, too good to be missed!

OUG Harmony Conference in Finland

I've arrived in Helsinki for the OUG Harmony conference which covers the user groups of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Russia.  For this conference I've been...

I've arrived in Helsinki for the OUG Harmony conference which covers the user groups of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Russia.  For this conference I've been selected to present three papers:Forms to Java and Oracle ADF: How, why and what skills do I need?How to skin an ADF applicationThe QuickStart Guide to Fusion Development with JDeveloper and Oracle ADF. My colleague Shay Shmeltzer, also from the product management, is also here presentingAccelerated J2EE development the...

Understanding what Oracle tools to use

A common question that comes up from customers is "which Oracle tool should I be using?" Forms? ADF? Apex? and then throw into the mix Web Center, BPM, SOA, SQL...

A common question that comes up from customers is "which Oracle tool should I be using?" Forms? ADF? Apex? and then throw into the mix Web Center, BPM, SOA, SQL Developer!To address the common questions, and to no doubt kick off some lively debate, the UKOUG are running an "Oracle Development Tools Landscape" SIG on the 22nd of June in the Oracle London City office.This event will be a mix of strategy, demo and customer use cases and includes some a leading experts on Oracle...

Online Seminar for Forms, ADF, Web Center and BPM

Given that many companies are pulling in the purse strings on travel to conferences, I’m pleased to announce that we will be running an online virtual...

Given that many companies are pulling in the purse strings on travel to conferences, I’m pleased to announce that we will be running an online virtual conference.  The conference is being repeated in a number of different timezones in May and June and included renowned speakers from Oracle and from the developer and customer install base.  Details of the event can be found here.  The event also includes live chat – so you can directly ask questions to the presenters and other...

Do you want to be an officially certified Oracle ADF Developer?

We have just released an official certification exam for Oracle ADF Development.  This exam is aimed that those who are already getting hands-on with ADF and...

We have just released an official certification exam for Oracle ADF Development.  This exam is aimed that those who are already getting hands-on with ADF and would like an official certification of their development skills. I was involved in writing some of the exam questions and this was an interesting experience.  We were looking to test not only a knowledge of the framework, but also a practical application of that knowledge.  Trying to do that in a clear question which...

Free ADF Training Event in the UK

At the UKOUG conference back in December, at the Tools Roundtable session someone told me that they hadn't chosen Oracle ADF as their development environement...

At the UKOUG conference back in December, at the Tools Roundtable session someone told me that they hadn't chosen Oracle ADF as their development environement for their future projects.  When I asked why, the response I got was "no one told us about it".  I was pretty astounded (even gobsmacked!) that the technology that is the foundation of Oracle's future applications strategy wasn't on someone's radar.There and then I promised the audience that if the UKOUG was to fill a...

UKOUG Inspiring speaker of the year award

I was surprised, but very honored too be awarded the UKOUG Inspiring speaker of the year award for my presentation at the UKOUG in 2009.  The award was...

I was surprised, but very honored too be awarded the UKOUG Inspiring speaker of the year award for my presentation at the UKOUG in 2009.  The award was presented at this year's conference and given the wealth of talent who present at these conferences, I was very humbled.Thanks to the UKOUG and OTN for arranging the awards, and of course, toall the people who attended my presentation and voted for me - manythanks.