This is a quick note about upcoming major events on my Oracle event calendar.

June 15-19, ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008, New Orleans, LA
September 21-25, Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, CA
December 1-5, UKOUG Conference, Birmingham, UK
February, 2009 (TBD), RMOUG Training Days, Denver, CO
March 8-12, 2009, Hotsos Symposium, Dallas, TX
April 20-24, 2009, RSA Conference, San Francisco, CA
May 3-7, 2009, Collaborate [...]

I took a few extra days to decompress from last week’s events at Collaborate 08 before writing up a summary of my thoughts. I didn’t think it was really possible to be more busy than I have been in previous years, but I think I matched my previous year’s schedule pretty easily. This year, instead [...]

Collaborate 08 is here and I’m in Denver already to prepare for the start of the conference. This year, I won’t be blogging a day-by-day accounting of my whereabouts and happenings. Instead, I’ll save up for a summary of what I saw, heard, and vibes I felt during the week.
If you’re still one of the [...]

Okay, not for a while, but for those that are presenters at the conference, the US winter is a time of solemn writing. Whitepaper deadlines are approaching for the IOUG program at the Collaborate 08 (April 14-18 in Denver) conference quickly. Soon after, the presentations for those sessions will be due. No rest for the [...]

As some of you already know, I’ve recently changed jobs. I now work at Piocon in Chicagoland. Our office is currently in Naperville (pretty close to my house). I’m a Practice Manager and will be working with a couple of other fine technologists (read some of their good stuff at SingleQuery) leading efforts in the [...]

The spring (in the US) conferences on my hot list are always Collaborate and the Hotsos Symposium. While I’ve never been to the Hotsos Symposium (due to budget constraints), I’ve always wanted to attend. All in the past couple of weeks, both events have opened their respective calls for speakers. See the links: IOUG call [...]