In my continual efforts to get your attention about developer, admin, and architect highlights at Oracle OpenWord, I almost forgot to remind you about OTN Night. For the uninitiated, OTN Night is a big party thrown by the Oracle Technology Network team, traditionally on the first night (Monday) of Oracle OpenWorld (with an “Arabian Nights” [...]
Product manager David Peake has announced the winners of the Oracle Application Express (Apex) Developer Competition: First Place: Eric Brandenburg, USA Second Place: Oscar Gordillo, Colombia Third Place: Matt Nolan, UK ….with 4th-through-12th place winners from Nigeria, Germany, India, and elsewhere around the world. The premise of the competition, announced in June 2009, was to [...]
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve noticed that we’ve futzed with the TechCast format lately. We launched this program in 2005 as a purely audio podcast, and in fact Oracle was the first company to provide podcasts from a major conference floor (Oracle OpenWorld 2005) at the time. About a year ago, we went to [...]
Alex Gorbachev has taken the organizer reigns of the traditional OpenWorld blogger meetup from Eddie Awad, who won’t be traveling to SF this year. Keeping it in the Oracle ACE Director family I guess. With help from the OTN team (once again, we’ve got the bar tab covered), Alex has announced the details: When: Tue, [...]
Chet Justice, aka oraclenerd, is a fixture of the Oracle community. A practicing Oracle Database developer residing in Florida, oraclenerd nevertheless finds time in his world to convey pride in his craft far and wide – via oraclenerd.com and the @oraclenerd Twitterstream, chiefly. You’d think that oraclenerd would be a fixture at Oracle OpenWorld, right? [...]
The Oracle ACE team has compiled a definitive list of Oracle ACE presenters at Oracle OpenWorld this year – whether via the public call-for-papers selection process or the “Vote-a-Session” approach: Presenter(s) Session Title Session ID Ahmed Alomari, Mark Farnham & Michael Brown Oracle Applications Database Tuning Panel S308863 Alex Gorbachev Developing Plug-ins for Oracle Enterprise [...]
Just today we published the OTN Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2009, a quick summary of all the goodies you can look forward to in October (something like 60 days away – wow). I’ll be providing a rich media “version” of this guide as well. The key takeaway is: we’re adding some new wrinkles to the [...]
Lost in the recent hubbub around the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch was the debut of OTN’s new public sample code repository at samplecode.oracle.com. Now that things have died down, we can give this new service the attention it deserves. Here’s the back-story: BEA’s Dev2Dev portal, as you may remember, offered a project-hosting service called [...]
This video needs no explanation. Is that Ted Farrell on bass guitar and Steve Harris on vocals? Link to the original site
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, [...]