Off To Oracle Open World!

Well, I'm hitting the road a bit early for the Oracle Open World conference... I'm a presenter for the following three sessions:

• S291738: 50 Ways to Integrate with Oracle Universal Content Management, Tuesday 3:15-4:15
• S292624: Hands-on Lab: Building an Enterprise Web Site from Scratch, Monday 12:30-1:30 and Tuesday 4:45-5:45
• S292625: Hands-on Lab: Experience Oracle Universal Content Management, Wednesday 9:45-10:45

The 50 Ways talk will be similar to the Intro to Integration talk from Crescendo this year... but I have some different examples... For this talk I integrated Ruby On Rails with the Content Server, with a clever application of JRuby, Content Integration Suite (CIS), and the obligatory voodoo magic. If you're curious, be sure to attend ;-)

For the hands-on labs, I'm only going to show up if the speaker needs extra help... so no promises!

Anyway, there are over 1500 sessions this year, so its a little hard to choose which event to attend... plus so many of them sounds exactly the same. No big deal... I usually learn more by networking with fellow geeks then by reading powerpoint slides...

Personally, I'm curious about where they are going with Identity Management, Business Intelligence, and SOA Suite. I'm going to sit on a few of those talks, and pepper the presenters with trick questions. I'm mildly curious about Web Center Suite, BPEL, and Secure Enterprise Search... but I've already seen a lot about that.

Its a little tough to schedule my day. Usually conferences send you a brochure with all tracks neatly color-coded, and logically grouped by time slot. However, Open World 2007 is trying to be "paperless," and so they launched an online Open World schedule builder. Unfortunately, its usability is significantly more clunky than a dead-tree...

Oh well, there's always glitches when you do something the first time. I'm pretty sure next year's scheduler will be much better. Otherwise, I'm might have to make a Greasemonkey script...

See you there!