I just received my copy of the “Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide” and after reading the first five chapters I was inspired to actually do some blogging again. If you grew up with Java technologies over the last 10 years or so, this is a particularly good read. I myself started with Enterprise Java during [...]
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, [...]
More than 8,000 attendees (mostly academics), 35,000 papers submitted, and 1,600 papers accepted. Amongst which a paper on ‘scenario-based strategy maps’ written by Pietro Micheli of Cranfield U, Toby Hatch of Oracle and myself. The start of the conference couldn’t have been better. I check into the hotel, get into the elevator and am standing [...]
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, [...]