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I’m off to Monterey for the annual ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference June 21 to 25. 

I’ll be presenting on “Simple SOA - A Real-Life Case Study” during the Web Architecture Symposium Sunday. If you want to twitter about this presentation (or even ask me a question during the session) please use tag #odtug S458. 

My other presentation is the latest overview of the Oracle tool stack: “What’s Hot and What’s Not” on Thursday. Here, I’ll be discussing Oracle Forms, Application Express, ADF and many other tools. The twitter tag for this presentation is #odtug S392 - questions are welcome. If you can’t make it to the conference, the conclusion from this presentation can be found on the Oracle Tools page.

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I’ve started to twitter. In case you don’t know Twitter, it’s a communication service that can be used as a micro-blog - each post is 140 characters or less. Read more on the Wikipedia article on Twitter. You can sign up at http://twitter.com/ and follow me at http://twitter.com/stenvesterli.

Oracle is of course also on twitter, but only with their normal marketing messages - the Oracle Technology Network Twitter by Justin Kestelyn is much more interesting. I’ll also recommend following the Oracle Development Tools User Group Twitter (where I also twitter).

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Did you know that ODTUG is podcasting? I hear a couple of podcasts on the way to work the other day, and they’re good. I encourage you to sign up at odtug.podhead.net.

The latest episode was an interview with Sue Harper about the upcoming SQL Developer 2.0, which will include data modeling, both at the conceptual (entity) and relational (table) level. It will offer a file-based and a database-based repository, import from Designer and even data flow diagrams. It seems that Oracle is re-building the parts of Designer that 90% of all users were using: The data modeling part.

There’s an early adopter release available for download. You can also find Sue Harper presenting SQL Developer at the UKOUG 2008 Conference  in Birmingham December 1-5. (I’ll be presenting there as well.)

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