The first session of this day was APEX Development: Watch it live! by Bill Holtzman of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. He built a Grievance Control system for the NATCA used by hundreds of users. Now he showed live how to build a football betting system in only 45 minutes (using some prefab [...]

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I am in Prague, at the TheServerSide Java Symposium Europe. It’s a conference much like other conferences about Java, but not as big (there are about 300 attendees) and with a focus on server-side Java technology (although non-Java stuff such as Adobe Flex and AIR, Groovy and JRuby also get some attention).
The first day started [...]

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Today started off with a keynote of Vince Casarez about ‘Web 2.0 meets the enterprise‘. He showed some really cool stuff included in Webcenter, like the carrousel (similar to the iTunes coverflow), dynamic charts that were refreshed using push technology. This is the stuff Oracle itself is using for their Fusion apps.
Next John Scott was [...]

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The day started with a rather fierce thunderstorm, and I can tell you that if it rains in New Orleans it really rains! This day was a sort of warming-up for the real conference with three full day symposiums on Essbase, APEX and Fusion. I attended the ‘The Seasoning of Application Express - Must hear [...]

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After an 18 hour trip from my home I arrived at the Sheraton in New Orleans. Luckily this time I also got my bag (at OOW 2007 it arrived a day later). A small wonder, because my transfer time in Houston was reduced from 1 ½ hour to 20 minutes due to the border control [...]

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In a couple of weeks ODTUG’s Kaleidscope 2008 takes off. Tis year’s theme seems to be: APEX, APEX and again..APEX. At least, for me it is. Because my preliminary schedule is packaged with 24(!) APEX sessions in 5 days. So at Thursday afternoon I should know everything I always wanted to know about APEX, but were afraid to ask.
I’m looking forward visiting New Orleans and meet again some friends from the Oracle blogosphere. I will report back my findings here!

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Our seminar took place Wednesday the 23/04. The blog have been under construction for a while, so therefore this late post
The seminar went very well. There was 55 participants. Some of them were from Logica, so there were around 50 customers which we were extremely happy with. We did a mix of demos [...]

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Third day of JavaOne and still going strong. I did not see much of the San Francisco city yet. There’s no time. Breakfast at JavaOne, lunch at JavaOne, sessions at JavaOne, a quick dinner and back to JavaOne to blog for a while. so this week is all about Java(One).
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The opening of the day was presented by the Oracle company. They shared their vision about Java with all the JavaOne visitors. Oracle sees SOA, WEB 2.0 and grid computing as the main upcoming Java issues. And of course, Oracle has an IDE which supports all these items. They showed this by giving a [...]

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Finally JavaOne 2008 (JAVA+YOU theme) has started. After hearing all the stories about it, it seems even bigger than I thought it would be. Everything is well organized and there are no time consuming queues. (compared to the JavaPolis conference in Antwerp)
After a fantastic streetdance show, the conference was opened by the hot shots of [...]

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