Books
Review of Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook (Packt Publishing) by Edwin Biemond, Guido Schmutz, Eric Elzinga et. al.
Feb 5th
Recently I gained access to an electronic copy of the just released Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook, written by five authors – all experts on OSB and three personal acquaintances of mine. I was very interested in learning about the final result after hearing many intermediate comments during the writing process as well as reading the occasional remark on Twitter. Knowing Guido, Eric and Edwin and assuming the same expert level for the other two authors, I anticipated a very interesting read.

Below I will share my impressions from browsing through this solid 500+ page volume. Note: the homepage for the book can be found here: http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-service-bus-11g-development-cookbook/book .
2 dagen seminar door Steven Feuerstein: Best of Oracle PL/SQL (8 en 9 december)
Oct 13th
In dit tweedaagse seminar neemt Steven Feuerstein je mee ver voorbij de basismogelijkheden van PL/SQL. Steven zal tijdens dit seminar de best practices behandelen die hij op tientallen plekken in de wereld heeft verzameld en die hij ook mede door zijn nauwe samenwerking met het PL/SQL product team van Oracle kan verifiëren en aanscherpen. Hij laat via code-voorbeelden en interactieve sessies zien hoe je als ontwikkelaar in staat bent om snel, hoogwaardige, goed onderhoudbare en uitbreidbare applicaties kunt maken.
Er is tijdens dit seminar voldoende ruimte om vragen te stellen en ideeën met Steven Feurestein uit te wisselen.

Bij dit seminar zijn de volgende zaken inbegrepen:
- Een exemplaar van het boek Oracle PL/SQL Programming (5th edition) van Steven Feuerstein (twv €71,-).
- Een PL/SQL quiz onder leiding van Steven Feuerstein met leuke prijzen.
- Ook ontvang je een gratis jaarabonnement op het PL/SQL Channel. Hiermee heb je toegang tot 27 uur videotraining (normaal $395).
Dit is de kans om in Nederland in een select gezelschap met één van de experts op PL/SQL gebied kennis te maken en je expertise in Oracle PL/SQL verder te vergroten. Meer informatie of inschrijven kan via deze link.
(NB: Deelname voor deze twee dagen kost 1050 euro)
Book Review : Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development – Made Simple
Jun 26th
On my way to Los Angeles (Long Beach) for KScope 2011 (12 Hours in an airplane) I had plenty of time to do some reading and writing.The book I read was an only very recently (june 2011) published ADF Book. This is not a technical deep dive into ADF, but it focuses on the process of application development.
The book is written by Sten Vesterli an Oracle ACE Director and it is absolutely a good read. Read the rest of this entry »
Book Review: Quick Start Guide to Oracle Fusion Development
Oct 24th
A couple of weeks ago yet another ADF book was released. This time it was Grant Ronald’s turn. He managed to write a “Quick Start Guide to Oracle Fusion Development”. I was somewhat worried because it is seemingly impossible to write a Quick Start Guide to Fusion Development. However after reading the book I was very surprised of what the book has to offer to people starting with fusion development. In this post I share my findings with you Read the rest of this entry »
Book review of: Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: A Hands-On Tutorial
Apr 18th
Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: A Hands-On Tutorial
Authors: Demed L’Her, Heidi Buelow, Jayaram Kasi, Manas Deb, Prasen Palvankar (aka Oracle Product Management for SOA Suite)
A hands-on tutorial is what the cover of the book promises, and that is exactly what you get. A quick, very hands-on introduction into the most important components in the SOA Suite 11g. In no time at all, readers will be able to get a composite application up and running. An application that leverages many of the essential features and functions in the SOA Suite.
Some books are primarily an introduction into a certain topic, with lots of theory, background and explanations of what, why and how. Other books are mainly reference material that you use to look things up when you need them. This book is neither – it offers very little in the way of explanation and background and it would be fairly useless as reference guide. It is however a very good way to get to know the SOA Suite – both design time and run time – and get a feel for how to develop for it and run applications in it.
The book contains a large number of informative screenshots and also provides the salient code snippets. It is very focused on getting specific jobs done, and for these jobs it has all the information and illustrations you may need. It is hard to not get it to work following the very detailed instructions.
The book – or at least the paper copy I am holding – is written for the very first 11gR1 release, that was published on July 1st 2009. The functions made available with PS1 release (November 2009) are not discussed therefore.
“Hotsos Revisited”, Revisited…
May 19th
Lucas already gave a very good in depth overview of the "Hotsos Revisited" session last night. It always amazes me how fast he can make a cool blog post that accurately points out the impressions we had of the evening. It started off with an idea we (Jeroen, Toon, Gerwin and me) had of sharing some of the ideas, atmosphere and presentation info we got from the Hotsos Symposium this year. It is not an easy task to present the presenters accordingly trying to achieve some of the energy that shared during their presentations at Hotsos, also, of course, we were not that deep into the material they presented / as the people we tried to do credit to.
I am indebted to Jeroen, Gerwin and Toon for making the time (their precious spare family time) too make it all happen. Even if it has to be all fun, you, as a presenter, don’t want to let the attendees, the audience, down by leaving them with the impression that such an evening was lost time. So it still takes a lot off effort to make it all work.
AMIS Query 18 Mei – Een Terugblik op Hotsos 2009
Apr 22nd
Marco
New book shipment to further build our library
Apr 27th
This week we added more than 50 books to our ever expanding library of books on Design Patterns, Oracle Database Administration, Script Languages, Agile Development, Core Java, SOA, Security and even .Net. Some of the titles we received are listed below. If you have suggestions for other valuable titles, feel welcome to share them with us.
* SQL Hacks ILLUSTRATED (Paperback) by Andrew Cumming (Author), Gordon Russell (Author) # Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (November 21, 2006) ISBN-10: 0596527993
* Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse (Developer’s Library) by Anil Hemrajani (Author)# Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (May 9, 2006) # ISBN-10: 0672328968 http://www.amazon.com/Development-Hibernate-Eclipse-Developers-Library/dp/0672328968/
* Model-Driven Software Development: Technology, Engineering, Management (Paperback) by Thomas Stahl (Author), Markus Voelter (Author), Krzysztof Czarnecki (Foreword)Publisher: Wiley (May 19, 2006) # ISBN-10: 0470025700
* Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML:
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New books in our library
Dec 8th
Over the course of the last few weeks, we had several book shipments arriving, filling the shelves in our library to the brim. It is interesting to note that in one shipment we have books ranging from Oracle E-Business Suite, Cross Platform Development with .NET and Oracle ADF Development to Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters, Developing Rich Media Applications, …
New Books are in
Jul 3rd
After having relocated and reorganized our library in our Cafe/Bar Area Cafe@AMIS, I just received another box with fresh books from our friend at Bookpool. This shiphment contains the following titles:





