National Oracle Conferance (Heaven)

@buntineSep 20.2004

A few days ago I got sponsored to attend the National Oracle Conferance. I get free food for two whole days, a free Oracle and Java shirt, and a 12 subscription to the Oracle mag! Im pretty stoked because it normally costs about $400 per person but I get to go for next to nothing. Only Oracle User Group members are aloud to attend the conferance, so i had to pay my registration, but thats about it.

It goes for two days, starting tomorrow. I will post some details of how it went tomorrow night. (this will allow me to disguise my blatent bragging)

Has anyone ever been to any of these national conferances before?

Regards,
Andrew Buntine.

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@davidbrentSep 20.2004 — #I can't say i have but good luck and enjoy yourself Andrew!

@johndoe190Sep 20.2004 — #Nope not me but aye enjoy yourself wish i was there.

@ray326Sep 20.2004 — #I haven't been to an Oracle conference like that but this summer I went to the IBM/Rational users group conference and it was excellent. Oracle should do a good job, too. Great netorking opportunities and lots of good food and booze. Enjoy!

@PeOfEoSep 21.2004 — #Id settle for one of those geek cruizes ? . Have fun Mr. Andrew!

@theuedimasterSep 21.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by PeOfEo [/i]

[B]Id settle for one of those geek cruizes ? . Have fun Mr. Andrew! [/B][/QUOTE]

ha! lol! ?

@buntineauthorSep 21.2004 — #Ok, I got home about 30 minutes ago.

Overall, the day was really good. I went to a bunch of Java conferances, which were mainly geared towards J2EE/Oracle integration.

The food was great and I spoke to some big players in the industry, such as DBA's and CIO's.

There was alot of blatant advertising. For example, roughtly every five or so minutes the lecturers would say "you really need to be on an Oracle back-end to do this" (or something similar).

Dell, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and Quest Software were also platinum partners of the event, so I got a bunch of free promotional merchandise, in the form of pens, bags, etc.

The show continues tomorrow and I am definetely looking forward to it.

Regards.

@Khalid_AliSep 21.2004 — #Sometimes one may get some new things in these seminars..etc,sometimes one may get introduced with new products,however my top priority in these ocasions is "free food" and lots of it..? ?

@buntineauthorSep 22.2004 — #Sounds really interesting!!! I Hope you die young.

Anyway, the second day of the conferance was ever better. Tom Daly from Sun gave me the low-down on Java5, which is dubbed "Tiger". One of the best advancements is the print formatting method that has been included. Anyone who has developed in C will be very happy about this! We all dearly miss [b]printf[/b].

<i>
 </i>// Example of the new Java printf.
 int val = 8;
 String str = "Brutal";
 System.out.printf("Int: %d. Str: %s", val, str);

There is also a bunch of other cool features, such as an advanced For-Loop, similar to the For-Each loop in VB and PL/SQL technologies.

A bunch of Americans came out and gave some excellent conferances on Project Management and Disaster Recovery Routines.

Regards.

@Khalid_AliSep 22.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by buntine [/i]

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System.out.printf("Int: %d. Str: %s", val, str);

[/code]

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Interesting..I guess we can safely say "Welcome to JavaC...."?

@ray326Sep 22.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by Khalid Ali [/i]

[B]Interesting..I guess we can safely say "Welcome to JavaC...."? [/B][/QUOTE] I'm not sure just how [b]safely[/b] we can say that given the ramifications of variable args. ?

@PeOfEoSep 22.2004 — #Do they ever give out free software at the conventions? I went to a political convention, got some free food, watched some debates and got some cool bumper stickers... but thats about it. They did not give out software at the political convention :rolleyes:

@buntineauthorSep 23.2004 — #Dell, Oracle, and Quest Software were giving out free software like the latest version of TOAD. A bunch of trail software was available, too.

@PeOfEoSep 23.2004 — #be nice if they gave out free copies of the oracle db server....

@buntineauthorSep 23.2004 — #LOL. "Heres a free copy of Oracle 10g! Enjoy.". "Have a free supercomputer, too. I dont want it."

That would be gold.

@ray326Sep 23.2004 — #Actually I think they DO give out free copies of the db, app server and IDE for development purposes only.

@davidbrentSep 23.2004 — #i went to a share trading convention targeting education share marketing and portfolio evaluations. i got a free pen and a very large paper clip!

David

@PeOfEoSep 23.2004 — #oohhh a large paper clip... sexy ?

@CardboardHammerOct 06.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by buntine [/i]

[B]LOL. "Heres a free copy of Oracle 10g! Enjoy.". "Have a free supercomputer, too. I dont want it."

That would be gold. [/B][/QUOTE]

Actually, I think you can sign up online to get a free copy of Oracle 10g... I think I signed up, though I haven't gotten it yet. I did get a copy of 9i (or maybe it was an older version, it was a while back) in a similar fashion.

EDIT: You can download it: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle10g/index.html

@davidbrentOct 06.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by PeOfEo [/i]

[B]oohhh a large paper clip... sexy ? [/B][/QUOTE]

it was at the time and it still is!