Saturday, June 13, 2009

ODTUG 2009

I can hardly believe it's another year (of few posts to my blog) and another ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference is almost upon us. This year the conference is in Monterey so I'm packing my bags and off to Oracle Headquarters in San Francisco tomorrow - then down to the conference on June 20th

If you have the opportunity I'd urge you to try and make it there too. The 'fun' starts off on Saturday when there is a community service day. Last year we painted school classrooms in New Orleans, this year we are helping to restore habitat at Martin Dunes, California’s largest and most intact dune ecosystem. So I'm packing plenty of sunscreen as my pale English skin isn't used to the California sun! More fun after the first day of sessions Sunday - with the second ODTUG Jam Session. Those of you who know Grant Ronald and I know that we are much too shy and retiring to join in that ;-)

But of course, that's not all the fun. The conference is full of interesting and diverse sessions - and I should know, I was part of the panel reviewing papers for the Editor's Choice award - I spent a few evenings reading papers on everything from project management to Oracle to the Holy Grail.

As for me, I'm really excited to be doing two sessions -

5000 tables, 100 schemas, 2000 developers: This will showcase some of the team-working features such as standards and version management, and reporting and impact analysis and the highly usable and scalable data modeling in JDeveloper. I've got some great new functionality to reveal - reporting on your data models, user defined validation and declarative compare of versioned database objects

Tooling up for ALM 2.0 with Oracle Team Productivity Center: If you were lucky enough to be at Oracle World or the UK Oracle User Group conference last year you might have seen a very early incarnation of this project that I've been working on. At ODTUG I'm going to be demoing the very latest code and showing you how to use your ALM repositories from within JDeveloper and how to integrate artifacts from those (maybe) disparate repositories together through Oracle Team Productivity Center. All this and team management too!

Another goal I have for the conference week is to talk to as many JDeveloper users as possible about team working, ALM and SDLC - and to ensure that I get feedback to take back and work on more functionality in JDeveloper to compliment the great application development tool we have

I look forward to seeing you there - or if not, finding other ways to talk to you!


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