Three Conferences. One Place to Connect. With Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, and Oracle Develop coming together in San Francisco this September, for the first time you’ll have the chance to connect with fellow attendees of any of these events. Just head on over to our gigantic Mason Street Tent. For those of you familiar with the [...]
I thought I would let you know that McGraw-Hill may well be interested in doing 2 extra versions of our best selling Discoverer book. As you know, the current book is on version 10g and incorporates both end user and administration. We are going to separate these out into a brand new Oracle Discoverer 11g [...]
Welcome to “The Zone”. Here’s what the new JavaOne + Develop registration Website says: The world’s most important developer conferences are creating the world’s coolest neighborhood for the developer community. Having been intimately involved in the planning process, I can vouch for that statement. Remember, if either co-located conference – JavaOne or Oracle Develop – [...]
Welcome to “The Zone”. Here’s what the new JavaOne + Develop registration Website says: The world’s most important developer conferences are creating the world’s coolest neighborhood for the developer community. Having been intimately involved in the planning process, I can vouch for that statement. Remember, if either co-located conference – JavaOne or Oracle Develop – [...]
I walked off the 7 hour flight to Dubai, straight on to the 13+ hour flight to Melbourne. I got a 1 hour rest at Melbourne while they cleaned the plane, before I started the 3+ hour flight to Auckland. I got to Auckland at about 14:00 where I was met by one of my [...]
Ruby enthusiast and friend of the ‘Lab Raimonds Simanovskis (@rsim) just released a maintenance update to his ActiveRecord oracle-enhanced-adapter, bringing it to version 1.2.4. This will be the final version of the adapter for Rails 2, after which he’ll move it to Rails 3. Last month, he updated ruby-plsql. As you know, we’re big fans [...]
I must say, Collab08 went really well. Since I was teaching and/or helping with the hands-on labs, I can’t say I got to see much outside our bit, but the people I did see expressed genuine interest and a high degree of understanding of our Fusion Middleware for Apps initiative. Additionally, I’d like to thank [...]
Yesterday, I presented the upcoming JHeadstart release 11 at Oracle Open World. The room was packed, and everyone seemed to have a good time, including the presenter The numerous demo’s ran fine and seemed to impress the audience. After my demo of the JHeadstart Forms2ADFGenerator, I asked whether they liked what they had seen. I [...]
OK, now’s a good time to get back into the blogging…. Beehive 1.5.1 has been released on OTN. Once again, here’s the links: Oracle Beehive Server Release 1 (1.5.1.0.0) Linux x86 (1,996,540,518 bytes) (cksum 3135990176) Windows (32-bit) (1,914,833,669 bytes) Solaris (SPARC 64-bit) (2,010,241,524 bytes) (cksum 1021980974) Oracle Beekeeper Release 1 (1.5.1.0.0) Linux x86 (404,469,592 bytes) [...]
For all events between now and the end of the year, my speaking schedule is published on asktom.oracle.com. This post hi-lights the “international” (for me, if you live there – it is local of course…) trips I’ll be doing. You can see all of the US only trips on asktom as well – and there [...]