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ODTUG Innovation Award 2019

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Nominations are open for the ODTUG Innovation Award 2019 – again, I ask you, our ODTUG members – to show us, let us know about the WOW! things you discovered – or built yourself – in the past year. To nominate for this year, read more here:
https://www.odtug.com/p/bl/et/blogaid=882&source=1

ODTUG Innovation Award

To get you revved up, consider last year’s winner, Stewart Bryson of Red Pill Analytics for his product Checkmate. An awesome tool – full product, a full IDE really – to control and automate your Oracle Analytics development and lifecycle. Read more about Check Mate here –
http://redpillanalytics.com/checkmate/

and
https://blog.redpillanalytics.com/checkmate-for-obi-free-ec48e30e0787

Explore Checkmate to facilitate your Oracle Analytics development – and remember to give Stewart Bryson a hand when you next see him.



Now back to this year’s Innovation Award:

To make a nomination for the award, you must be an ODTUG member (Associate or Full). If you are not a member, join now.

Nomination Criteria

  • Nominees may be individuals or teams.
  • Nominees do not need to be ODTUG members, but they must work with a tool that supports at least one of our communities (Analytics, APEX, Database, and EPM).
  • Open-source and/or collaborative efforts are eligible.

Nomination Deadline

  • Nominations open: Tuesday, April 23, 2019.
  • Nominations close: Monday, May 13, 2019 11:59 p.m. EDT.

ODTUG Innovation Award ~ Make Your Nomination Now!

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Nominations for the 2017 ODTUG Innovation Award are open now through June 2nd.  Make your nomination now, before your Memorial Day weekend.

We are looking for innovative, exceptional, ahead-of-the-curve applications of Oracle development tools that stand out as examples of “the next big thing”, or maybe the really neat next small thing,  in Oracle technology.   Can’t think of anything? Nah, I don’t believe that.  Consider:

  • Do  you have, or does your co-worker have an unusually creative application or combination of new and emerging Oracle tools?
  • Did you find a new open source project that makes your life easier?  Open source projects are eligible, as long as they integrate some Oracle technology.
  • Does your latest project enable faster, smoother, cleaner adoption of an Oracle tool?
  • Are you envying someone else’s work, saying “Wish I thought of that …”?
  • Have you seen a real neat learning tool that aids others in understanding a new Oracle tool?   All projects, large and small, are eligible.
  • Does your organization have an exception program for attracting or training persons new to Oracle technology?
  • Have you created, seen or adopted a new plugin or feature, large or small, that others may not have seen yet?

We are looking for the stuff that makes you say “Wow, great idea …”  or “Neat stuff …” or “wicked cool …” (you can tell where I am from).  We need your help to get as many innovation examples in before the June 2nd deadline.

Now is the time to make your nomination.

The ODTUG Innovation Award honors excellence in creative, effective, and innovative use of Oracle development tools within ODTUG’s supported communities (ADF, APEX, BI, Database, EPM and Career). The goal is to honor developers – individuals or teams – whose passion and creativity shine through in their application of Oracle technology to address real-world problems.  Note that this year we are not excluding anything or anyone, so projects and individuals from all organizations (Oracle, too!) are welcome.

Note that ODTUG members get to vote this year.  Make your nomination, then vote for it too! Member voting will be combined with judges scoring to determine an overall Innovation Award winner.

Check out the full information on the ODTUG web site here:

ODTUG Innovation Award Nominations

Nominations close June 2nd, so act soon!

ODTUG Technical Journal ~ Into the Sunset

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It is with mixed emotions that I formally announce the retirement of the ODTUG Technical Journal … and along with it the ODTUG Editor’s Choice Award, since, well, there will be no Editor.

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ODTUG Technical Journal, now Retired

Times have changed, significantly, since I first volunteered for the Technical Journal in 2006 – writing book reviews, then as Associate Technical Editor, and finally as Editor.  This is a span of almost 10 yrs.  To put things in perspective, 10 years ago:

  • The top 5 cell phones were NOT smartphones (remember Nokia and Motorola flip phones?)
  • Smartphone options included Blackberry and Palm Treo
  • Twitter was brand new
  • Blogging was just gaining in popularity
  • LinkedIn existed but had not taken off yet (launched in 2003)
  • YouTube was launched, starting video blogging
  • The Kindle did not exist (introduced in 2007)
  • The iPhone did not exist (debuted in 2007)
  • The iPad did not exist (introduced in 2010)
  • The ODTUG listservs were a popular, excellent way of exchanging questions, answers and advice. An actual ODTUG listserv question from September 2005:
Hi,
We are considering using Oracle's HTML DB to do some web development. Does
anyone who has experience in using this, have time to spare to make some 
comments about it?  I am particularly interested if anyone knows from where 
inside of Oracle this came from and if it is likely to have a long shelf life.
Thanks

(see http://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/HTML-DB-here-to-stay for a trip down memory lane).

Well, we know what happened with all of the above.  Technology has changed – advanced. Rapidly.

Accordingly, how we Oracle Developers work has changed. How we communicate has changed. How we learn has changed. How we find and consume learning and reference materials has changed from hard-copy, book-based to online, blog and video-based.

The ODTUG Technical Journal served its purpose through the years, providing Oracle developer tools white papers, book reviews, volunteer features, conference highlights and more. The Technical Journal transitioned from quarterly paper editions to 100% online bi-weekly releases at the end of 2012.  The online Technical Journal Corner enabled publication of material of all media types – blog, video, audio as well as traditional white paper format.

Quite simply, it is no longer practical to consistently consolidate the best-of-the-best materials on a single journal or website in a manner that is searchable and accessible to all Oracle developers.  Static web pages have been superseded by blog aggregators and twitter streams. We at ODTUG prefer to stay ahead of the curve in serving our members, and thus our final Technical Journal Corner article will be posted this month, and as of May 1st the ODTUG Technical Journal Corner will be retired. All postings there will stay ~ just no new material added.

The last post will be by Nikos Karagiannidis, SQL Tuning for Day-to-Day Data Warehouse Support, posting in the coming week.

I wish to thank and applaud all those who have contributed to the ODTUG Technical Journal through the years.  I have enjoyed working with each and every one of you ~ far too many individual authors to list here ~ but I thank you all for your contributions.

In particular I would like to thank our long-term dedicated columnists who served for multiple years since I have been editor:  Joe Begenwald, who even delivered his Ask the Experts column when he could not see, Neelesh Shah who contributed years worth of book reviews, Lucas Jellema who taught us all much about Oracle Fusion Middleware, Mark Rittman, star of BI Perspectives, Kevin McGinley for stepping on the BI column, Steven Feuerstein for his unique Confessions of a Quick and Dirty Programmer, Ed Roske and Tim Tow for the Look Smarter Than You Are with Hyperion column, and John King for a wealth of Volunteer Spotlights and overall general encouragement.  Many thanks to Donna Richey-Winkelman and Maggie Tompkins, Editors Emeritus, for setting the bar high as previous editors of the ODTUG Technical Journal.  Finally, I would like to thank Peter Koletzke for teaching me by example how to be a better editor. It has been a privilege working with you all.

So what’s next?  Watch the ODTUG Communities: APEX, Business Intelligence, ADF, Database, EPM, and Career Track where you will find blog aggregators, twitter handles, a Calendar of Events more. Sign up for ODTUG Webinars, free learning from ODTUG experts. Better yet, volunteer! ODTUG is a volunteer organization serving Oracle developers around the world. We need you!

At this time we will also be retiring the ODTUG Editor’s Choice award, traditionally awarded at our annual Kscope conference for excellence in communication of a technical topic.

We at ODTUG still wish to honor excellence in the Oracle Tools development world. Accordingly, I am pleased to announce the inaugural ODTUG Oracle Developer Innovation and Excellence Award, designed to honor innovation, excellence and amazing accomplishment in the realm of Oracle Development Tools adoption and integration.  Watch for more information on this new award – complete details will be released in the coming weeks.

As always, happy coding,

and keep your eye out for Awesome Extraordinary, Innovtive Stuff ~ More Soon!

Karen

Editor Emeritus, ODTUG Technical Journal

Relax.

Off to the Islands, where all retired Editors go