My fellow Oracle ACE Directors and former AMIS-colleagues Patrick Barel and Alex Nuijten have co-authored an impressive book: The book discusses many of the wonders of SQL and PL/SQL – the well and lesser known things you can (and should) do when programming in and against the Oracle Database. Part […]
Book reviews and Publications
6 surprising things you can do with Google search
Next the normal Google search you can use this search box for a lot more things. This search box is often the first place where you type when you want something done. Below I list 6 examples of how Google search can help you much quicker to answer a bit more complex questions. Set […]
AMIS25 Beyond the Horizon Conference – Session Resource Repository
Below you will find an overview of all the sessions that took place at the AMIS25 Beyond the Horizon conference (1-3 June 2016, Katwijk, The Netherlands) along with the associated session resources – such as the presentation slides and where applicable the source code. Presenter(s) Title Session Resources Aino […]
Wat doen we met onze bloemkool automatisering ?
Als je, zoals ik, al een tijdje in de IT rondloopt herken je dit wellicht: een organisatie heeft een systeem, het is al gebouwd en ‘up and running’. Maar na een tijdje verandert de wens. De gebruikers ontdekken dat ze iets extra’s willen of dat een bepaald stuk functionaliteit net […]
Oracle Cloud en de Europese Privacy regels; waar moeten we op letten?
Als Oracle gebruiker ziet u de mogelijkheden van de Oracle Cloud. De grote flexibiliteit, de mogelijkheid om capaciteit bij en af te schalen, instant diensten en het maandelijkse verrekenmodel. Alleen al de korte doorlooptijd voor (tijdelijke) omgevingen en de verminderde beheerinspanning kunnen leiden tot een flinke verbetering in efficiëntie. Zo bent u minder bezig met de dagelijkse operatie van […]
How to embed and auto play a YouTube video in a PowerPoint presentation
For everyone who wants to auto play a YouTube video in their PowerPoint Presentations. I was able to insert the video in my PowerPoint but I was not able to do it as an auto play. So during th presentation I had to find the mouse button and play the video […]
Book Review: Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c (Packt, June 2015)
I recently came across an unexpected gem: this book titled “Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c” by a collective of authors I know well and happily collaborate with: Torsten Winterberg, Mark Simpson, Guido Schmutz, Danilo Schmiedel, Hajo Normann, Sven Bernhardt, Matjaz B. Juric. The […]
Continuous Delivery Maturity Model – Nederlandse versie
De methoden en technieken voor Continuous Delivery winnen steeds meer aan belangstelling. Deze aanpak blijkt vaak de succesvolle strategie achter het realiseren van echte “business agility”. Veel organisaties weten heel goed waarom Continuous Delivery belangrijk is, maar worstelen met de vraag “hoe doe je dit dan?”. Hoe start je met […]
AMIS Whitepaper User Experience Frameworks “Future of optimal UI development”
“ There’s A Lot More Behind This Pretty Face “ The whitepaper “User Experience Frameworks – Future of optimal UI development -” starts with an overview of user experience guidelines. These guidelines translate to additional UX requirements when designing and building a new user interface on modern systems. We will also […]
Generale repetitie voor Oracle OpenWorld en JavaOne sprekers
Zoals ook in de afgelopen jaren (sinds 2008) organiseert AMIS weer een Oracle OpenWorld Preview evenement – dit jaar op donderdag 11 september. Op deze preview willen we een paar dingen doen: alvast de sfeer rondom Oracle OpenWorld opbouwen; Oracle specialisten uit Nederland (en omgeving) de kans geven enkele presentaties […]
Live Blog: Book Review of Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation – Last Edit: 18th November
(this article is a live blog: it is a work in progress – as I am currently reading this book – and this article will be updated in the next few days and weeks; when completed, the marker Live Blog will be removed) Title: Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation By: […]
Training Oracle ADF 11g, 15 tot en met 19 april
Van 15 tot en met 19 april geeft Luc Bors de 5-daagse ADF 11g training op het kantoor van AMIS in Nieuwegein. In 5 dagen leer je de basis van Oracle ADF 11g. De training bestaat basis uit presentatie, demonstratie en hands on, doorspekt met best practices en voorbeelden uit […]
Publications written in 2012
Name Zero Downtime Application Upgrades with Oracle Fusion Middleware – (Fusion Column for ODTUG Technical Journal Q2, 2012) date 21st April 2012 Click ODTUG Technical Journal-FusionColumn-Q22012-zeroUnplannedApplicationDowntime Name The Future of Forms is… Forms! (Fusion Column for ODTUG Technical Journal Q1, 2012) date 20th January 2012 Click The Future of Forms is… Forms! […]
Book Review : Oracle ADF Real World Developer’s Guide
In October 2012 yet another ADF Book was published. This book “Oracle ADF Real World Developer’s Guide” is authored by Jobinesh Purushothaman. Jobinsh works with Oracle as a Principal Solutions Architect for the Oracle Application Development Framework. The book is full of essential tips and tricks for building ADF applications. […]
Book review: Oracle APEX Best Practices
Oracle APEX Best Practices explains how to build robust and secure APEX applications. The authors have a proven track record in the Oracle APEX world. The intended audience of this book is a developer with some APEX experience. Oracle APEX Best Practices is not the beginners guide into APEX. But after you have made your first steps in APEX development, you should definitely take a look at this book.
AMIS proud sponsor of the SQL Challenge
SQL today is the foundation for any successful application. Whether it is a SOA implementation, an ADF or APEX application, a Forms application or any other usage of the Oracle Database (or any other relational database), SQL is key for the success. AMIS has embraced the evolution of SQL through […]
Book Review: Do More with SOA Integration: Best of Packt (december 2011, various authors)
Recently I received an electronic copy of a new publication from Packt Publishing, one of the most active publishing companies in the area of (Oracle related) SOA technology. I was asked to review this book – and having enjoyed various earlier Packt titles (such as the recent OSB Cookbook and […]
Review of Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook (Packt Publishing) by Edwin Biemond, Guido Schmutz, Eric Elzinga et. al.
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 […]
Publications written in 2011
Name Java ontwikkelaars: zet de Database aan het werk – deel 2 – (Java Magazine, maart 2011) date 24th February 2011 Click LaatDeDatabaseVoorJeWerken_deel2_JavaMagazine_LJ for this article. Name Forms2Future or End Users on Strike on Application Modernization (the Oracle way) – (ODTUG, Technical Journal, Q1 2011) date 1st March 2011 Click ODTUG_TechJournalQ1-2011-AppModernizationThe Fusion […]
2 dagen seminar door Steven Feuerstein: Best of Oracle PL/SQL (8 en 9 december)
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 […]
Book Review : Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development – Made Simple
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 […]
Publications written in 2010
Name Oracle Fusion Applications – de nieuwe standaard in applicaties?, AppWorks, december 2010 date 2nd December 2010 Click IntroductieVanOracleFusionApplications_AppWorks_Dec2010.pdf for this article. Name Masterclass Leveraging the Oracle Database in Java Applications, december 2010 date 17th December 2010 Click MCJavaDevLeverageDatabase_Demos.zip to download the sources for the demos for this masterclass. Name Java ontwikkelaars: zet de […]
Book Review: Quick Start Guide to Oracle Fusion Development
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 […]
Book review of: Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: A Hands-On Tutorial
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 […]
"Hotsos Revisited", Revisited…
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 […]
AMIS Query 18 Mei – Een Terugblik op Hotsos 2009
Begin maart 2009 werd in Irving, Texas, het internationale Oracle Performance Symposium Hotsos gehouden. Ook dit jaar stond het symposium garant voor inhoudelijke hoogstaande presentaties en discussies over performance. Vier Nederlanders, Jeroen Evers (Fameus), Toon Koppelaars (RuleGen), Gerwin Hendriksen (AMIS) en Marco Gralike (AMIS), hadden het genoegen om ter plekke te […]
Publications written in 2008
Name Hibernate Search – Zoeken in de database zonder database of Doe Google Search op relationele data date Thu, 28 Feb 2008 (Gepubliceerd in Java Magazine, maart 2008) Het goed kunnen doorzoeken van data is een belangrijk onderdeel voor veel applicaties. Gebruikers willen geen ingewikkelde formulieren om hun query […]
Publications written in 2007
Name Heeft Java dan eindelijk zijn Oracle Forms? Kennismaking met Java Server Faces – (Deel 1 van een serie over JSF voor Optimize) date Wed, 17 Jan 2007 Heeft Java dan eindelijk zijn Oracle Forms? Kennismaking met Java Server Faces – (Optimize, nummer 1, 2007) Deel 1 van een […]
New book shipment to further build our library
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 […]
New books in our library
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 […]
Publications written in 2006
Name EJB 3.0 Persistence – Nieuwe Industriestandaard voor Java/Database communicatie date Wed, 11 Jan 2006 EJB 3.0 Persistence komt eraan: een nieuwe standaard voor Java applicaties om met relationele databases te communiceren. EJB 3.0 Persistence wordt gesteund door alle belangrijke partijen die zich bezig houden met de mapping tussen Java […]
New Books are in
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:
Latest book-shipment – straight from NL-JUG Java Conference
Today I ordered, paid, packaged and shipped myself from the bookstore at the NL-JUG Java Conference the following interesting box of 13 books (and got one free as well as an AJAX T-Shirt, presumably not the football club’s):
Small but beautiful book shipment
Some new books we received during this last week: Access to Rough Cuts of the new O’Reilly titles Ajax Design Patterns By Michael Mahemoff and Java and XML 2nd Edition By Brett McLaughlin Learning UML 2.0 By Russell Miles, Kim Hamilton O’Reilly ISBN: 0-596-00982-8 Pro .NET Oracle Programming By Mark A. Williams […]
Free "1000 Java Tips" book
A free book, titled 1000 Java Tips can be found at http://javafaq.nu/java/advert/index.shtml. It is claimed that after reading you will improve your skills and raise your salary.
New Book Shipment is in – recent titles on Web, Java and Oracle
Our monthly book-shipment just arrived and I am playing Santa Claus right now by handing out books to some eager colleagues. The list of titles we received this month includes: Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse,By: Anil Hemrajani Paperback: 352 pages ISBN: 0672328968 (May 2006) JavaServer Faces […]
Better Builds With Maven – Free book about Maven 2
When I was browsing through some articles on JRoller I found this interesting free book. As far as I know this is the first book about Maven 2. There is a book on Amazon that is released earlier this month but it says nothing about Maven 1 or 2 (and […]
A truckload of new books
This week we had many new books arriving. Three boxes came in with over 30 books. Among them are:
Early Christmas Presents in December Shipments of Books
Yesterday we received another book shipment. Unfortunately I did not get all the books I had asked for, but they should make a good read over the holiday season. The box contained the following titles: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Fourth Edition By Steven Feuerstein, Bill PribylFourth Edition August 2005 ISBN: 0-596-00977-1 Beyond Java, […]
Publications written in 2005
Name JDeveloper als tool voor Database Design en PL/SQL Ontwikkeling – Deel 4 van Ontwikkelingshulp voor PL/SQL “ De Stille Kracht van Java” date Tue, 11 Jan 2005 ÂGeschreven voor het Januari 2005 nummer van de Optimize. In een serie van vier artikelen zal Lucas Jellema, technisch consultant bij AMIS, […]