In May this year we started www.bloggingaboutoracle.org as an opportunity to show the rest of the world that consultants at LogicaCMG are experts on Oracle. As the statistics show this site is a success. We even won an award for “Best Community Initiative” at our Loud event last November. I’m very proud about these results [...]

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Here are some pictures that Ivan Verborgh, the organizer of the RADRace (see www.radrace.org) made during the event.
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Since the rest of my team was blogging about it, I thought, what the heck. So here is my entry.
This blog-entry is more about the whole JavaPolis experience in stead of an in depth seminar by seminar analysis of every session.
The first day already started very early. I arrived at around 8:15 and quickly met [...]

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During Javapolis i had the pleasure of seeing a quite few presentations about all sorts of topics. I’ll try to describe my experiences.
Javapolis - Day 1
Dojo and Faces by Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows
A really excellent presentation about creating UI Components and leveraging the power of DOJO (Ajax) and Comet (push data from the server [...]

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As promised a little more extensive report on the RADRace.
First of all… Here we are, Team 2: LogicaCMG Oracle2GO

The assignment
The assignment for the RADRace was to create a COWS application. COWS stood for COmmunity Web System. The main purpose of the application was to enable an user with administrator privileges to create dynamic forms that [...]

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The first day of Javapolis i arrived a little late because i needed to pack our computers to enter the RADRace the next day. I was able to follow the presentation of Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows about Dojo and Faces. Jonas and John are a presentation team that work very well together, it was [...]

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Tuesday 12 december the anual Javapolis RADRace was held again. We, Gideon and I, entered the RADRace.
We used the following toolstack:

JDeveloper 10.1.3.1.0 (with the ADF Framework, ADF BC and ADF Faces)
Oracle RDBMS 10g
LogicaCMG Oracle2GO (filling some gaps of the ADF framework and additional libraries)

We needed to write (in one day) an application for dynamically creating, [...]

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Feels like I’m back at my HP/UX terminal, revisiting the bash shell. Funny, the way the command line interface seems to be making a comeback. As far as I know Microsoft Vista is to sport a powerful command line as well.
Why the trip down memory lane? Well, I’m attending a session on Dynamic languages as [...]

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Outside, the weather finally realized it’s fall. The wind is blowing hard, sheets of rain are flying horizontally in stead of just pouring straight down. Luckily I’m in one of the padded seats of Antwerp’s Metropolis cinema, attending this year’s edition of JavaPolis.
The entire world seems to be calling for service oriented architectures at this [...]

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Currently i am attending the JavaPolis 2006. A nice event with interesting topics and nice interesting people to meet. It is located at a nice venue in Antwerp called ‘Metropolis‘. If you are in the neighbourhood it is surely worth a visit and grab a movie if you are there. Enough said about the venue [...]

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