http://www.vesterli.com Watching Oracle Development Tools Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:12:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is a challenge: Find the place in the latest Oracle product documentation that states the following "To improve response time, verify that the optimizer_mode Oracle initialization parameter is set to choose." The first person to tell me in person where Oracle is recommending this, wins a beer. E-mail doesn't count, ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/11/29/oracle-recommends-optimizer_modechoose/ 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 ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/11/22/odtug-podcast-sql-developer-data-modeling/ If you have a lot of PL/SQL packages, it should be real easy to publish them as Web Services - after all, JDeveloper contains a nice wizard for exactly this purpose. I expected that a lot of people were already using this functionality, so I was very surprised to find a ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/11/13/being-unreasonable-bug-in-plsql-web-services/ It seems that there has been some mixup with the Oracle OpenWorld presentations - several people have written to me complaining that the slides that could be downloaded from the OOW site were not mine. So here are the slides from my presentation "Choose Your Weapon - an Overview of ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/10/20/oracle-openworld-presentation-online/ I've booked an Unconference slot today, Thursday at 2 p.m. for a meeting of Oracle Portal users. I'm not going to be presenting anything, but with all the WebCenter and Beehive hype here, it might be useful to meet other Oracle Portal users and discuss where we go from here. So ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/09/25/oracle-portal-users-meeting-thursday-at-2-pm/ Wednesday morning I spent the morning in the ADF Methodology Group unconference session. Fellow Oracle ACE Director Chris Muir had convened the meeting and explained the rationale for the ADF Methodology group. We discussed several aspects of ADF methodology: Eric Marcoux spoke on ADF testing, Steve Muench discussed how to ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/09/25/oracle-openworld-wednesday/ In the morning, I heard Robert Nocera from Vgo present on redeveloping Oracle Forms applications in ADF BC and ADF Faces. They have been doing this for years and used to convert stacked canvases in Forms to PanelGroups in ADF. However, with JDeveloper 11g, stacked canvases can be converted into ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/09/24/oracle-openworld-tuesday/ In the morning, I saw fellow ACE Director Eric Marcoux present an overview of all Oracle Portal Products - an ambitions undertaking, given that Oracle has four portals and Eric also covered Universal Content Management. With such a wide topic, it is probably unavoidable that some errors creep in - ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/09/23/oracle-openworld-monday/ Sunday at OracleWorld was filled by the Oracle ACE Director briefing. Unfortunately most of the information given out is embargoed until the relevant Oracle VIP makes the official announcement during the week. Stay tuned...But we did have some of the usual interesting discussions about Oracle pricing, especially in the light ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/09/23/oracle-openworld-sunday/ If you're in San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld next week, be sure to check out the OpenWorld Unconference session on ADF. Some of the luminaries from the ADF Methodology Group are presenting and discussing best practice on Overlook 1, 3rd Floor, Moscone West on Wednesday September 24th 9am-11am. I'll be ... http://www.vesterli.com/2008/09/18/interested-in-adf/