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OGB Appreciation Day: It’s All About ME!

Submitted by mwidlake on Thu, 2019-10-10 12:35

The Oracle Groundbreakers program, and it’s previous incarnations going back to OTN and beyond, are all about me. Yes – Me!

I Wish All New Presenters Knew This (and it will help you):

Submitted by mwidlake on Mon, 2019-10-07 15:07

All people new to presenting need to know this:

Riga & Romania, Zagreb & Zurich: It Sounds Rockstar but Really it’s Not

Submitted by mwidlake on Thu, 2018-05-10 13:31

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last month or two trying to plan how to navigate a set of visits to the Eastern side of Europe. This might sound a little “My Glamorous Lifestyle” but, as my friend Tim Hall (he who is “Oracle-Base”) has documented in his posts under “my glamorous lifestyle”, doing the Oracle talk circuit often entails lots of hours in airports & stations, travelling with cheap, basic airlines, and sometimes a lot of stress. It is not the “Airport lounge and first class service” some people think it is. Anyway…

Friday Philosophy – Doing DOAG (& a Little, Light, Hem-Touching)

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2017-11-24 11:46

This week I’ve been at annual DOAG conference. DOAG is the German (Deutsch) Oracle User Group annual conference. It’s my second time there and I very much enjoyed it, meeting lots of people & seeing some great talks. I also got a request to do more Friday Philosophies, so…

Friday Philosophy – What Makes a Community?

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2017-11-10 15:48

Earlier this week Daniel Westermann asked a question on twitter: “What is community?”

Free Webinar – How Oracle Works!

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2017-09-15 12:32

Next Tuesday (19th September) I am doing a free webinar for ProHuddle. It lasts under an hour and is an introduction to how some of the core parts of the Oracle RDBMS work, I call it “The Heart of Oracle: How the Core RDBMS Works”. Yes, I try and explain all of the core Oracle RDBMS in under an hour! I’m told I just about manage it. You can see details of the event and register for it here. I’ve done this talk a few times at conferences now and I really like doing it, partly as it seems to go down so well and people give me good feedback about it (and occasionally bad feedback, but I’ll get on to that).

Friday Philosophy – New Conference, Same Sad Old Faces Up Front

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2017-06-02 11:20

I’ve been on the Oracle conference presenting circuit for well over a decade now and I must confess I enjoy it. Part of this is that I see lots of friends at nearly every conference – even in countries I have never been to before. This is because many of those friends are fellow presenters, who have been presenting for well over a decade now…

Top and Tailing Bulgaria.

Submitted by mwidlake on Wed, 2016-11-09 12:16

Tomorrow I head off to Bulgaria for the BGOUG Autumn Conference 2016. I’ve only been to the Bulgarian user group once before, having heard from so many people what a fantastic user group conference it was – and they were right. Milena Gerova and her team do an amazing job of organising it and make everyone feel really welcome. So I am really looking forward to my return.

Pint with Oracle User Group – First International POUG (Polish) Conference

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2016-10-14 15:07

This Autumn, I am mostly being a Conference Tart.

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2016-08-12 15:34

The first half of this year was a little quiet for me on the presenting front. I was concentrating on writing and also on organising events, as opposed to going to them, so most of my trips were for personal reasons (that means “holidays”…). I presented at the Ireland conference and a few UK user group events but that was it – quite a few European events this spring fell on dates I was not available (including the Israeli and Finnish conferences where I was asked to attend and would have loved to). Or, oh the shock of it, my submissions were not accepted! {How dare they</p /> </p></div> <div class=