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15 Apr 2012

What’s in your war chest?

When you gear up to do battle with your next data warehouse or data modeling problem, what are your weapons of choice?

ERwin?

Oracle Designer?

SQL Developer?

Or do you go “old school” with the traditional pen and paper (or marker and white board)?

Whatever your approach, everyone has a favorite. Tell me what yours are in the comments.

Take care out there.

Kent

P.S. Want to know what my weapons of choice are? Check out my War Chest page and the Blogroll and Useful Sites in the right column on this page.

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06 Apr 2012

Get your free pass!

Don’t forget that the deadline for submitting to Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is Monday April 9th.

If you get accepted you get a FREE pass to the event (worth over $2000 US).

Check my earlier posting for the details, but don’t forget to say ODTUG sent you, then I will personally get to review your abstract.

Really, that is a good thing 🙂

Good luck. Submit an abstract here, right now!

Hope to see you in San Francisco.

Kent

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29 Mar 2012
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Oracle User Groups: Are you a member?

I love user groups.

Getting introduced and involved in them has made a huge difference in my career. If it was not for all the people I have met in the last 22+ years, my career, and life, would have been very different.

I have met hundreds (maybe thousands) of amazing people both from within Oracle Corp and outside. Many of them became, and remain, my friends. Which is why we all love to get together several times a year at various user group and industry events to catch up, exchange wars stories, and learn new things.

Right now, I am starting to prepare for one of my favorites – ODTUG KScope. I will be there presenting in June and  running my popular Morning Chi Gung class for the 2nd year in a row.

If you have not registered, get to it! Rooms are going fast and you want to be sure to stay at the conference resort (yes – resort, not hotel!).

And on the ODTUG front, they have just announced you can now join for just $99 a year. That is the best value you can find for the world’s best Oracle user group for Developers.

So are you in? Are you at member of at least one user group?

What? You don’t know which one to join?

Then check out this new cool site Oracle just put up with videos from some of the user group leaders. After that, check out their new User Group Central with information about Oracle user groups around the globe.

So get out there and meet some new people and learn some new things.

Come to KScope12.

Join a user group.

See you in San Antonio.

Kent

P.S. Don’t forget to submit an abstract for Oracle OpenWorld before the deadline passes. It will get you a free pass to the show (worth over $2000). Tell’em ODTUG and the Oracle Data Warrior sent you.

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21 Mar 2012
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Looking for an IT Job in North America? Check out this great graphic.

I try not to repost too many things but I got this in my inbox this morning and was so impressed with the graphic used for conveying the information I could not resist (visualization anyone?).

Plus I know many folks are looking for work.

Both Houston (where I am) and Denver (my fav) make the list.

12 Cities To Find An IT Job In 2012
Source: Modis – IT Staffing Agency

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14 Mar 2012
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Ready or Not – It’s Time to Submit an Abstract for Oracle Open World 2012

Yup, it sneaks up on you pretty fast.

Seems like only a few weeks ago I was in San Francisco at OOW 2011, and now it is already time to think about what to present in September.

This year, Oracle OpenWorld will take place September 30-October 5 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco.

If you are ready to go, the call for papers is here.

Important Date:

The Call for Papers will close at 11:59 p.m. PDT on Monday, April 9.

Not a lot of time to submit.

Again this year I am the OOW Content Coordinator for the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG), so I will be one of the people reviewing your submission.

If you are an ODTUG member and want to represent ODTUG at OOW 2012, this is your chance! On the abstract submission form, there are two user group related questions you need to answer.

First, be sure to indicate that you are a member of a user group.

Second indicate that you belong to or are submitting on behalf of Oracle Development Tools User Group. 

If you do not indicate ODTUG, we (well, me and a few others) will not be able to see your abstract or review it.

I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to share your knowledge, experiences, and solutions with other developers. I look forward to reviewing the abstracts submitted by the ODTUG experts.

Key Point: If your abstract is accepted, you will receive a complimentary registration to Oracle OpenWorld (worth over $2,000 ).

Even if you do not want to present, you can learn more about OpenWorld here.

So start writing that abstract and submit before April 9th.

See you in San Francisco!

Kent

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