Yesterday, I was at the Oracle Developer’s Day workshop in Anaheim. I am not an Oracle developer, but I wanted to see the other side :), and registered for the event. The event was at Crown Plaza Anaheim. I don't like to complain for the events that are totally free, as the vendors usually spend lots of money and effort to organize these events, however there a few things I need to say :). There was a registration form for this event, and laptop was required too so everybody had to bring their laptops. By just looking at the number of registration forms filled in, Oracle could know how many people were coming, and supplied enough power extensions for the room, as some people couldn’t plug in their laptops. The internet was dead slow, I tried to download a file from the internet the average speed was 5kb/sec.
Another important feature for me is the room temperature as it is not easy to sit in a room that is too hot or too cold and try to listen the new stuff. However yesterday the room temperature was perfect. The lunch was good, unlimited coffee and drinks were nice.
So the presenter? It was very obvious that the presenter was very knowledgably and he knows what he is talking about. You can’t imagine how many workshops I attended and the presenter did not know about the presentation. However our presenter had a problem managing the crowd yesterday. He didn't give the break on time which made a lot of people uncomfortable as there were leaving the room to get coffee, visit restroom and mumbling. He was also late for the lunch break. These things may sound simple things for you, and I may sound like I am whining however when you present to 100+ people, these small things multiple by 100+.
So Oracle announced the JDeveloper tool, and I don't have any knowledge with their trend, but I liked the tool, with a few clicks you can do a lot of things such as paneling, database cruds, drawing charts. There was the MVC from Oracle too. For more technical review of this workshop, I am sure you can google and find lot’s of reviews, this was my guest from the other side of review :)