JAOO: An international software development conference with more than 80 speakers, 3 days of presentations, 3 days of tutorials and about 1400 guests. And all of it right here in Aarhus, Denmark, right on top of where I live and work. I was lucky enough to attend last year, and I’ll be attending this year [...]

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If you would like to be an Oracle Certified Profressional on a developer level, OCA + Forms was always the only way to go. Until now! Oracle is currently running a beta exam on OCP that includes not Oracle Forms, but goes in deeper to PL/SQL. The official title: Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional. [...]

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APEX is famous for it’s useful applications, so when the idea poped into my head that I would like to track my personal contracts, APEX was first in line to develop such an application.
The purpose of this app is to be able to track longrunning contracts with their renewalperiods. One month before you should end [...]

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Tuesday the 9 of September our ½ day Oracle Web Services Manager seminar took place. There were 23 participants. Everything went according to the plan even the live demos. My colleague Erik Birklund started the day with a quick intro to the business drive for Web Services and security. The rest of the day I [...]

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Today is the start of a new edition of the Java Masterclass, hosted by Logica IDT Rotterdam. In this masterclass newly joined talents will be trained to equip them with the knowledge and capabilities to ‘fully release their potential’.
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Logica does six presentations during the upcoming UKOUG on 1-5 December in Birmingham. For the record: The UKOUG is the largest European Oracle related conference with about 3,000 attendees.

When
What
Who

Monday, Dec 1, 11:00-12:00
Is my Disaster (re)covered?
Piet de Visser

Tuesday, Dec 2, 13:05-13:50
Streamlining the Sales Cycle - Integrating Salesforce.com CRM with Oracle Quoting
Paul Colton

Thursday, Dec 4, 10:45-11:30
Being Steven [...]

Popularity: 214 points

Logica does two presentations during the upcoming Oracle Open World 2008 on 21-25 September in San Francisco.

When
Where
What
Who

Monday, Sep 22, 13:00-14:00
Moscone South, Rm 309
Developing a Real-World Logistic Application with Oracle Application Express (S301752)
Roel Hartman

Wednesday, Sep 24. 09:00-10:00
Marriott, Nob Hill CD
Practical Approach to SOA Adoption in Business Environments (S300535)
Edwin van Dis

Both presentations aren’t fully booked yet, so [...]

Popularity: 267 points

Allright, so you’ve written some code. Now how do you determine that it’s good code? What’s your approach in evaluating the quality of your code? Do you follow some Software Design Principles? Are you aware of some of the Code Smells? Whenever I write some code, I always ask myself questions about the code I’ve [...]

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