Scott Spendolini's Blog

In case you missed it, the book that I contributed to - Pro Oracle Application Express - has finally shipped! According to the Oracle Bookstore at OpenWorld, it was the hottest book there, at least according to this site:  http://blogs.oracle.com/databaseinsider/2008/09/database_books_top_sellers_at.html So if you were one of the many who pre-ordered it, you should have it by now and I personally thank you for your patience!  I hope that you get out of it as much as we (especially John) have put into it!

After being on the road for 8 days, I am finally almost home - at my parents in Connecticut for a weekend visit. OOW was in a word, hectic.  I was afraid that it would actually be a bit worse, as it's hard to fit 43,000 people into a city and not have a suite of the obvious logistical issues.  Oracle did a fairly decent job, given the fixed issues of the sheer size of the conference.  Most of the presentations that I wanted to see were in Moscone West or the Marriott, which were just across from one another, which did make things easier. The registration system was a little bit less than I expected.  I would have liked to have had an interface that would let me know which presentations were coming up next and/or have an easy search to show me not only that but which presentations were in a specific venue.  Often, I found myself walking out of a meeting and would have liked to sit in on something close, but had no way of knowing aside from walking the halls and hoping to stumble

I've made it to San Francisco, safe and sound and only a couple minutes delayed.  Tomorrow will be a hectic day, as I am participating in the APEX Experts Panel then presenting/hosting the ODTUG APEX mini-conferece.  We have a great line-up this time, so even if you were at ODTUG this year, definitely stop by to hear what the US Army & Vista (the company, not the OS), WaMu, BAE Systems and Wachovia are doing with APEX. I was also greeted with a nice, heavy box of books - not just any book, but the one that I helped John Scott author.  It was just weird to see the words that I wrote appear in an actual book! I did, however, find the 1st typo:  in my Biography, they erronously listed ODTUG as the Oregon Developer Tools User Group.  Oops!  At least the Foreword is not the Forward ... In any case, please feel free to stop by to either session tomorrow.  You may even walk out with a new copy of the book...