Category Archives: OpenWorld

OOW Apex Meetup

I posted a while ago that Dimitri and I would be trying to arrange an Apex Meetup at OpenWorld.
We created a simple Apex App for people to register which night was their preferred night and it was a close tie between Monday and Tuesday, so we flipped a coin and thought that monday was the [...]

OOW07 - 2 Days to Go

Once again, it’s time for Oracle Openworld, myself and around 40,000+ other people are descending on San Francisco for what promises to be (and certainly didn’t dissapoint last year) a very fun, enjoyable and rewarding 4 days of Oracle conferencing, socialising and networking.
My journey started pretty early, having to catch a flight from Manchester [...]

OOW 2007 APEX Meetup

It’s that time of the year again, with OpenWorld just around the corner, so Dimitri Gielis and myself are trying to arrange an APEX Meetup again like we did last year.

If you’re interested in coming along to the Meetup, we made a simple application (APEX of course) where you can say which days are best [...]

Apex Evangelists go head-to-head!

In my previous post, I listed the Application Express sessions that are going on at Oracle OpenWorld this year.
However, what I didn’t point out that there is a bit of a conflict on the final day:
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That’s right, both Dimitri Gielis and myself are both presenting at exactly the same time! Dimitri is a great friend [...]

APEX Sessions at OpenWorld

Today I thought I would finally get round to going through the Oracle OpenWorld 2007 schedule builder and plan which sessions I’m going to try and attend.
I noticed that there are quite a few Application Express related sessions this year -
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If I’ve missed any out, please let me know, but otherwise looks like quite a [...]

OOW 2007 Call for Papers?

Since I caught the ‘presenting bug’ after presenting at Collaborate 07 and I could not attend the ODTUG Kaleidoscope event which kicks off in the next few days, my thoughts turned to OOW 2007 (I’ve already submitted an extra to the UKOUG event in December 2007).
I was a bit surprised to find that there didn’t [...]

Home - Almost

Well, I’m almost home, sitting in Heathrow airport waiting for my connecting flight back home. If I had to pick a word to describe the flight from SFO to Heathrow it would probably be ‘dreadful’. I had the unfortunate combination of -

No air-conditioning working in the aisle I was in, it was like sitting in [...]

Hills, Sea Lions and Submarines

I’m glad I stayed on a couple of days after OOW finished, I absolutely loved OOW, but it gave me a chance to do some non-Oracle stuff (i.e. sight-seeing). Dimitri and I had planned to go and visit Alcatraz, so we set off to catch a cable-car to the Ferry, but unfortunately (as like last [...]

Famous? Me?

I just noticed over on the OTN TechBlog site, that there’s a picture of me and Steve Howard chatting to someone else (sorry I can’t remember your name!) during the OTN night.
The bizarre thing is that there’s a caption below the photo which says “You won’t believe what I built with APEX last week”, which [...]

Openworld - Thursday (Final Day)

I can’t believe, it’s the final day already. In some ways it’s seemed like a long week (my feet are certainly feeling it), in other ways it doesn’t seem five minutes since I was stepping off the plane at SFO.
I had a very early start today (up at 6am for an 8am session), for the [...]