Ray’s Seven Laws for future applications<\/p>\n
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- Does it serve an individual need?<\/li>\n
- Viral \/ Organic Adoption<\/li>\n
- Contextual Personalised Information<\/li>\n
- No Initial Data Entry or Training requirement<\/li>\n
- Utilises Communications and Social Relationships<\/li>\n
- Delivers Instantaneous Value<\/li>\n
- Minimum IT footprint<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Agree or not, I really enjoyed it. It’s always good to watch a comfortable and confident speaker like Ray.<\/p>\n
Speaking of confident speakers, it’s difficult to believe that Tom Kyte once read the slides out! He was on fine form today, kicking off with his caving tales from the weekend<\/a>. Sooner him than me! The joy of fatherhood, indeed 😉 His instrumentation presentation was terrific, too, perfectly pitched between the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’ – not merely technical but explaining just why instrumentation is so important. As a DBA, I wish there were more developers like him, but at least he’s spreading the word. At the end David Aldridge<\/a> (who is walking around with Oracle Sponge written on his badge. Quite right, too, but I think there may have been alcohol involved) asked Tom a question about tracing Parallel Execution in 10g. Tom kindly bumped it my way and my presentations got a mention. So, if you want the answer, you’ll need to attend tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n
Then it was on to James Morle for me. His presentation on SANs was pretty dear to my heart. I might have known most of it already, but this stuff is really key in my workplace and even to the PX work I’ve been doing. I also like his dry sense of humour. What surprised me was his original audience survey. Either people didn’t understand the question, were too shy to put their hands up, were lieing or SANs aren’t as ubiquitous as I thought. I suspect a combination of all of those reasons. I’m a bit embarassed about the best thing I got from his presentation but, as soon as he said ‘Polyserve’, it reminded me of something that had been bugging me. This one’s for Dave Whiting – Polyserve is the name of the clustering software.<\/p>\n
The Sponge just walked over and said, ‘Tell everyone I said hi!’<\/p>\n
Humph! Perhaps he should blog something and spare me the lunchtime effort.<\/p>\n
Finally just a quick hello to Mads, Flatcat, Tiggs, Polly, Bill, Frank, Celtic Monkey, Derek Junior and the mouse that seems to have moved into the kitchen. (Updated – Oh my god! How could I have forgotten The Rabbit?!?! He’ll probably have run away by the time I get home ….)<\/span><\/p>\n
Now either I’m getting more sick of Scotland than I thought or I’m not a real geek, because that sunny, sunny day outside is pretty tempting when compared to Oracle presentations.<\/p>\n
P.S. My camera isn’t coping too well with the darkened halls, but here’s one of an expectant audience before James Morle’s presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n
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