My First Web-Conference

Last week (yeah, I’ve been busy) was the first time I’d delivered a web-conference – using Microsoft LiveMeeting at my current customer site.
As others have reported in the past, it’s a little weird not being able to look into the eyes of the people you’re presenting to but I’m pretty passionate about the OEM [...]

OOW 2009 – Decided to present after all

As I keep saying (and I know you’ll be sick of this but it needs to be on each post in case they’re read in isolation).
"Disclosure: I’m attending this year’s Openworld Conference at the
invitation of the Oracle ACE Director program, which is paying my
travel and accommodation expenses. The time off work is my own choice."Well [...]

11.2 Release

Some features in this post require a Diagnostics Pack license.
I noticed my Netvibes home page light up today with the release of 11.2 on OTN (Greg’s is just one of a bunch of posts) – official home page here.
More important to me was the documentation and there were two things that I dived straight into.
1) [...]

A couple of links and an advert…

Instrumentation
Cary Millsap has recently pointed to a couple of postings and quoted some people on the fine art of instrumentation.  He quoted me (and got it pretty much 100% – dead on) a couple of times as well.  I’ll add a quote/story to his list of quotes…
When Oracle 10g first was released – I was [...]