Hotsos 2010 – Presenters, Presentations, Presenting

I never find it very easy to try to capture the atmosphere during a conference, the presenting part, the presentations or the discussions, for example, you could have with the presenters. Hotsos is such a cool and unique event were you have the opportunity, to listen but also to interact. The amount of people that [...]

UKOUG 2009 – Day 0.3

Sigh.
Taxi company booked me a taxi for tomorrow morning rather than today but realised just in time.
Now my mobile battery has packed up. So anyone trying to get hold of me that way stands no chance. Still picking up emails though …
… and I’m going to miss all 3 presentations I wanted to attend. No [...]

Taxonomy vs Folksonomy

a good analysis
Semantic Technology 2009: Hybrid Approaches to Taxonomy and Folksonomy
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Enterprise 2.0, Evolved

E20 Evolved
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Be Sure to register for the Enterprise 2.0 Virtual Conference to be held Oct 8 (banner link at bottom right)
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My OOW presentations – part II

My 2 presentations for OOW are now available for download from the SAGE Computing Services website here:SOA Lite: A taste of SOA with a smidgen of Web Services
Oracle JDeveloper 11g JAX-WS Web Services: As easy as 1-2-3: XSD, WSDL, Generate!

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Queuing and Decoupling for Performance…

Some of the data warehousing and Exadata presentations have talked about queuing requests to improve performance. They have suggested that using Resource Manager to throttle the number of active requests results in better performance/throughput compared to letting multiple requests all run simultaneously. The Terabyte Hour session yesterday showed an example of this and sure enough, [...]

OOW 2009: Introducing SOA and Oracle SOA Suite 11g for Database Professionals

 
The Oracle Open World 2009 conference is almost underway. On Monday 12th October I will do two presentations, and I am done preparing the first one of them (the one that has actually sold one – probably scheduled in a small room).This presentation is one in which I introduce the key concepts and objectives of [...]

Rails authentication with Authlogic and RPX

The Singapore Ruby Brigade had it’s monthly meetup last night. Great discussions as always, and how can you complain when you get to carry on over maggi mee goreng supper until the wee hours;-)
Here are the slides from my talk about Rails authentication options in general, and specifically why and how to use RPX with [...]

Lucas @ Oracle Open World 2009 – sessions to attend, people to meet and too many presentations to present…

 
Tomorrow morning I will travel to San Francisco (well, first to Redwood Shores) for this year’s of Oracle Open World – the largest Oracle party in the world. It is my fourth attendance in a row – and it is going to be the busiest by far. For starters, I am presenting five sessions (don’t [...]

Oracle Open World 2009 – XMLDB Sessions and Presentations (blog.gralike.com)

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