Oracle ACE Program Newsletter: by Aces, for Aces
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Oracle Technology Network By ACEs, For ACEs October 2010 Oracle ACE Spotlight Markus Eisele, Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele Markus Eisele is a lead technology consultant working for msg systems ag in Germany which is one of the top 10 IT consulting and systems integration companies there. Markus is well known in Germany as a technical writer, speaker and trainer. He has written more than 50 articles about Enterprise Java and is still waiting for the opportunity to write his first book. Markus is also a software architect, developer and consultant. Markus joined msg in 2002 and has been a member of the Center of Competence IT-Architecture for the past eight years. His main areas of expertise are Java EE Middleware Servers. Beside this other technologies (Microsoft, SAP) also are part of his portfolio. Markus blogs about all his topics frequently at blog.eisele.net. He works daily with companies as a Java EE architecture consultant for enterprise applications and helps customers design and implement high-performance Java EE solutions and troubleshoot problems. He is supporting customers on a variety of platforms using application servers from different vendors. His all time favorites are WebLogic and GlassFish. After being a Technical Director with BEA Systems, he is a proud member of the Oracle ACE program since 2008. If there is time to spend, Markus is giving it to his family. His two and a half year old daughter will be a big sister next year and exciting times are expected. All this perfectly aligns with his “all-time” favorite personal interest of Photography. If you see somebody walking around with a cam and taking pictures all the time, it’s probably Markus. Check out his OpenWorld, JavaOne and Develop 2010 photoset on flickr or look at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 impressions to get an idea of his work. Oracle ACE Program News Oracle ACE Quick Links Welcome New Oracle ACEs Initiated October 2010 Name Location Focus Takeshi Aoki Japan DB Daniel Atwood United States OFM Hitoshi Onishi Japan DB Kouji Shinkubo Japan DB Oracle ACE Directory Noriyoshi Shinoda Japan DB Oracle ACE Nomination Forms Oracle ACE Google Map Get Ready for UKOUG... Only 5 Weeks Away... Nov 29-Dec 1 Oracle Blogs Have you registered yet for UKOUG Conference Series Technology & Oracle Technology Network E-Business Suite? Don't miss out on UK's biggest Oracle event. Check out this event video to get a glimpse of what's ahead. OTN Discussion Forums For all ACEs attending UKOUG, please join us for an Oracle ACE dinner, Oracle Wiki Sunday, November 28. More details forthcoming. RSVP to Vikki Lira. Oracle.com Other Oracle ACE / OTN activities: Follow @oracleace on Twitter - "Sun Up" Sessions - Oracle ACE panel, moderated by Duncan Mills: Tue, Nov. 30, 7:30 - 8:30am, location TBD - Come support your fellow Join the Oracle ACE group on ACEs. Facebook - OTN sponsored meet and greet reception: Tue, Nov. 30, 6:00pm, Exhibit Hall - OTN Lounge located in the Exhibit Hall. Hours TBD. Subscribe to Oracle newsletters Looking for Spanish and/or Portuguese Speakers The Oracle RAC SIG will host a series of online webinars specifically targeted to the LAD region. They are looking for experts in the Oracle RAC space who are fluent and comfortable presenting in Spanish and/or Portuguese Please contact Oracle ACE Rodrigo Mufalani or Oracle RAC SIG chair Nelson Calero for more details. What Are You Doing? Have you published an article? Are you speaking somewhere? Promote yourself here! Submit newsletter item OFM for Apps Kit and Training If you are interested in taking the Oracle Fusion Middleware message to Oracle Application customers, here's your opportunity to receive training and your own OFM for Apps kit. Please contact ACE Director Debra Lilley for further details. 40% Off New Hot Title by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema – Comments? Suggestions? Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook Contact [email protected] Written by internationally recognized expert and Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema, this Oracle Press guide explains how Oracle SOA Suite 11g can be used to successfully implement an enterprise-wide SOA. Get this book now at 40% discount rate exclusively for Oracle ACEs. Oracle ACE Packt Publishing Discount Receive 20% Oracle ACE discount at Packt Publishing, including the newly released: “Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle WebCenter 11g”, co-authured by Oracle ACE Director Plinio Arbizu. Enter code “ACE20WEB” at checkout. New Books from Apress at 20% Off Get your copy of Pro Oracle SQL, co-authored by Oracle ACEs Karen Morton and Jared Still (plus others) and receive 20% off. Discount also valid on Darl Kuhn's latest title, Pro Oracle Database 11g Administration (available Dec). Enter promo code "ORACLEACEMT" at checkout. Offer good thru 12/31/10. Interested in Writing? If you have the enthusiasm for communicating technical ideas and concepts, have a valuable experience or a technical skill that you're keen to share with readers, you should give serious consideration to authoring a book or becoming a technical reviewer. Please contact [email protected] for more details. > back to the top Oracle ACE Watch New Article: Managing Audit Trails New article written by ACE Director Arup Nanda for Oracle Magazine on how to manage audit trails in Oracle Database 11g R2. New Articles: Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne 2010 Recap and More In addition to his newly released book, ACE Director Lucas Jellema just can't stop writing and had three recent articles published including: Report from JavaOne 2010 - for Java Magazine (the Dutch Java Developer's magazine) Report from Oracle Open World 2010 - for Optimize (the main Dutch developer's magazine) The Hollywood Principle - on dependency injection - Fusion Column for ODTUG Technical Journal Q4 Free Guide to Applications DBA 101 Oracle ACE John Stouffer co-authored another Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i and Release 12 Applications DBA 101 User Guide in conjunction with OAUG. Download your free copy. New Blog : WebCenter Interaction Oracle ACE Geoff Garcia recently started a blog called "Learning the Ropes" which focuses on Oracle WebCenter Interaction, portals, intranets, extranets, content management and technology. Blog Entry: New version of ruby-plsql-spec PL/SQL unit testing framework Oracle ACE Raimonds Simanovskis has released new version of his Ruby based PL/SQL unit testing framework which now also supports PL/SQL code coverage reporting. Blog Entry Recovering Voting Disks on Oracle RAC 11gR2 Ricardo Portilho Proni, Oracle ACE, demonstrates how easy it is nowadays to recover from a complete loss of Oracle RAC Voting Disks. Blog Entry: RMAN Video Tutorial Series Oracle ACE Kamran Agayev posted two videos about RMAN. The first video talks about Using Virtual Private Catalog in RMAN 11g and the second shows the benefits of Upgrading and Moving Recovery Catalog with IMPORT CATALOG command using RMAN in Oracle 11g. Blog Entry: Offline Patching of WebLogic Server In this post, ACE Director Simon Haslam describes how to patch WebLogic Server, e.g. for OEM Grid Control 11gR1, in an environment that doesn't have access to the internet. Blog Entry: Fault Handling in Oracle SOA Suite 11g Ronald van Luttikhuzien, ACE Director, completed a 4-part blog series on fault handling in Oracle SOA Suite 11g today. Check it out. Part I - Explains why it is a good idea to address -and handle- business faults separately from technical errors. Part II - Discusses how to get a hold of these technical errors and how can we determine what to do with them. Part III - Continues the conversation about custom Java class that handles faults. Part IV - Concludes with the SCA composite that acts as generic fault handler. Blog Entry: Performance Troubleshooting Based on a real-life client issue, Oracle ACE Riyaj Shamsudeen blogs about performance troubleshooting including an interesting bug with Group by Hash Aggregation and a mini-troubleshooting guide for RAC 'gc buffer busy waits' Blog Entry: Oracle MEAP Check out Oracle ACE Greg Rekounas's blog post about the combination of several Oracle technologies to form a platform, MEAP. Blog Entry: 11.2.0.2 EDITION Attribute of a Database Service After reading 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) New Features, it piqued the interest of Oracle ACE Surachart Opun so he created samples of Oracle EDITION Attribute of a Database Service. Blog Entry: Datapump, Keeping the Legacy Alive Interesting blog post written by Oracle ACE Aman Sharma about the legacy mode of Datapump in 11.2. Blog Entry: The Physics of Data Oracle ACE Bert Scalzo explains the four, actually only the two fundamental physics states of Data. Blog Entry : Android Apps Read ACE Director Brad Brown's blog for some interesting articles, videos and demos about how you can show your data visually using Yahoo Pipes, Google Fusion Tables, iGoogle and mobile devices! New Book: Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle WebCenter 11g, written by ACE Director, Plinio Arbizu. (available now) New Book: Oracle SQL Tuning: A Close Look at Explain Plans, written by ACE Director, Dan Hotka (available now) > Back to the top Oracle ACE Out and About 35+ Oracle ACE Speakers at UKOUG Cary Millsap - ACE Director, DB Speaking at OSWOUG Gustavo Gonzales - Oracle ACE, DB Speaking at ITConvergence/OAUG workshops Harshad Oak - ACE Director, OFM Speaking/Organizing at IndicThreads Speaking at MAOP John Flack (organizer) - Oracle ACE, DB Scott Spendolini - ACE Director, DB Speaking at Oracle Day Istanbul H.Tonguç Yilmaz - Oracle ACE, DB Husnu Sensoy - ACE Director, DB Speaking at NOCOUG Chris