In Denmark a unique global Oracle DBA networking event was held on the last three days of september. Founder of the Oaktable network Mogens Norgaard and his wife Annette organized “The very last Miracle database forum” at Lalandia in Rodby.
The conference always starts on Thursday evening with a social event. The only sales related information [...]

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Thursday November 23rd, 6:30 am. Eric Ettes and I are on our way to Rotterdam to compete in the “Masters of Java 2006” contest (MOJ) organized by the “Dutch Java User Group” (NLJUG). Because of the bad weather, and the thousands of MOJ spectators crowding the Dutch freeways ;-), we arrive a few minutes after [...]

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The Annual Conference of UKOUG is always a Large event, and this year it had 16 parallel tracks. That can make it seriously hard to choose as sometimes there are 4 VIPs (Very Interesting Presentations) at the same time.
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The main value of the annual UKOUG conference is that most of the presenters are not bound [...]

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Never thought I would ever quote Denis Leary in a J2EE context but I’m dying for coffee-flavoured-coffee right now. Just one (damn strong) taste of coffee which strikes the tongue and keep you awake. I’ll try to explain
The immediate cause: InfoQ’s has published an interview with Gaving King about the evolution of Seam, Gavin’s version of [...]

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What a day… time to write of my frustrations….
We upgraded to jDeveloper 10.1.3.1 and nothing worked anymore. A lot of searching found that jDev 10.1.3.1 upgrades to the JSF RI implementation version 1.1_02 and that implementation does not load JSP(X) pages from the WEB-INF directory!?! What kind of logic is behind that? How are we [...]

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Yesterday evening LogicaCMG organised it’s own version of Oracle Open World, but just a little bit smaller. About 130 colleagues came to Amstelveen to listen to the keynote (after a good dinner) and after that three times a choice from one of the three parallel sessions. As usual the evening was very well organised (thank [...]

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Due to a pleasant evening on Wednesday, I had to skip the first session (at 8:00!). But at the start of the second session, Test-Driven Development in the World of PL/SQL by PL/SQL Evangelist Steven Feuerstein, I was quite awake. Steven demonstrated - in his own special interesting way : what a great presenter! - [...]

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Wednesday was Keynote Day. First in line was John Wookey, who emphasized the continuity of the complete Oracle Applications stack and pointed out a couple of new features and enhancements in the future releases of Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and the E-Business Suite. In this timeslot Giovanni Contino of Ducati got 15 minutes to present [...]

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On this Tuesday I spent the whole day at the Hilton (only 1,5 block from our hotel) attending sessions from the Developer track. The day started of with the Developer keynote of the day : Tom Kyte with Things you think you know. The message was that things (read “Oracle software”) changes over time and [...]

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For me this Monday started with an (Developer) Keynote by Thomas Kurian: The next application platform. Thomas pointed out three main trends : SOA, Information Driven Architecture an Grid Computing Architecture. For the developers (about 1200 in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton) he mentioned the tools Oracle offers for building applications on the 3-tier [...]

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