UKOUG London Development and Middleware event - free!

The Oracle development landscape is an extremely broad and complicated one these days. It covers such a wide range of tools, technologies and practices it is hard to keep up.

The UKOUG is presenting a day of sessions which can bring you up to speed. It's a joint initiative between the Development and Middleware SIGs - a composite if you will - at the Oracle City Office on Thursday 6th September. This event is free. If you are a UKOUG member attending it won't count against your allotment of SIG delegates; if you're not a UKOUG member there's no charge so come along and get a taste of what the UKOUG has to offer.

The day covers a broad spectrum. Martin Beeby is a popular speaker; his talk covers how Oracle is embracing new cool technologies such as Blockchain, Docker and chatbots. There are talks from Oracle ACE Director Simon Haslam on mobile applications and Oracle ACE Director Mark Simpson on real-life uses for AI. There are also sessions on API design, building bots and JavaScript frameworks.

Even last year these things might have been considered cutting edge, certainly in the enterprise realm. But most organisations of whatever size are at least thinking about or running Proof of Concept projects in AI or blockchain. Some already have these technologies active in Production. These things will affect everybody working in IT, and probably sooner rather than later. It's always good to know what's coming.

Check out the full agenda here.
Register here.

Oh, and did I mention it's free? Treat yourself to a day out from the present and get a glimpse of the future.

Application integration: reorganise, recycle, repurpose

The last UKOUG Development SIG focused on Forms. Its theme was Forms in the 21st Century: modernise, integrate, migrate? I think we covered modernisation and migration very well. But even in a packed day we couldn't cover everything, and I fear integration was not done full justice.

It wasn't planned this way, but it so happens the upcoming UKOUG Development SIG is all about Application Integraton and SOA. Integration is a topic which is in everybody's baliwick. The business people want to get the best value from their existing IT investments. The architects need to understand the interfaces bewteen the silos and across the layers. The developers have to implement it.

Every stakeholder has to appreciate the others' concerns. SOA isn't any different from other IT endeavours in this respect, but it is still relatively unfamiliar. So the SIG's agenda covers integration from both technical and business perspectives. Check it out.

And, of course, please register for the day. The date is Thursday 14-JUN-2012, and it will happen at the Oracle City Office in London. Sign up here.