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February 2, 2023 Uncategorized

The new forums

New year and I knew you want some new news about new forums!  (That’s a lot of “new” 😀) I’ll

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October 27, 2022 Uncategorized

CloudWorld is done!

Just a quick post with a few highlights from CloudWorld, but really this is all about getting you the slides

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October 5, 2022 Uncategorized

CloudWorld – Tuesday Turmoil

I took a quick glance at the schedule for Tuesday for CloudWorld and realised I’m going to need to clone

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July 7, 2022 Uncategorized

Kscope 22 – the joy of in-person conferences

Rather than bore you with a lengthy tome about the event, I’d thought I would summarise the week with pictures

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January 22, 2021 Uncategorized

New Year … new idea … new channel

I’ve done a lot of presentations over the years, written a ton of blog posts, and over the past  5

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April 15, 2020 Uncategorized

Expertise might not be the way forward

I caught up with friend Rob Lockhard who is doing interviews with community members. He asked me about the future

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August 17, 2018 Uncategorized

Let’s talk about Techiquette

I’m typing this at about 38,000 feet in the air. I’m travelling home from the Oracle Latin America tour –

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August 3, 2018 Uncategorized

Building community via the speaker community

I recently participated in the Oracle Developer Community Yatra tour throughout India. It is a hectic event with 7 cities

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December 31, 2017 Uncategorized

It’s not about ego … it’s about knowledge

Take a quick look at this blog post by Jonathan Lewis https://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/nvarchar2/ Anyone that has been working with Oracle for

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October 20, 2017 Uncategorized

Why being wrong can be awesome

OK, Now that I’ve started the post with a nice click-bait heading, let’s get down to the business of being

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