Summer of Technology 2014 @Contribute

A new summer, a new Summer of Technology! As tradition prescribes, there's an interesting workshop/session every Tuesday of the summer. I will be hosting a session on Google's Cloud platform, but there's a lot of other topics as well.

Pick your session and subscribe!

Web Accessibility Course

Attention fellow web developers! Google is giving a free online course to improve the accessibility of your website/application. While this might not seem like a big issue, the World Health Organization estimates the number of people with visual impairments to be 285 million. You can save them from a lot of frustration, and offer a far better user experience by following a few guidelines.

Making your site more user friendly to blind or low vision people doesn't have to be 'a pain in the ass'. It should come naturally, with a minimum of extra effort. Google will provide techniques and tools, as well as expert guidance to make the world wide web a slightly better place, one site at a time.

Summer of Technology @Contribute

Just like last year, Contribute organizes a 'Summer of Technology'. The concept is as simple as it is nice: free one-day workshops for everyone interested. If you're a developer, architect, ... or just a technology enthusiast, take a look at the sessions we're organizing, and register for the ones that you're interest in.

You'll find the full overview at the Contribute website: http://www.contribute.be/sot

Topics range from Oracle Forms over BigData/NoQSL to version control. Every tuesday, this summer!

Free Advanced ADF course - part 2

As I mentioned earlier, Oracle provides a free advanced ADF course. Today, Jürgen Kress announced on his blog that part 2 is available! Here are the links to part one and part two.

Good luck.

ADF sessions at Oracle Open World

It's still more than 2 months away, but I'm already looking forward to Oracle Open World. I'm starting to look at the sessions that will be given, and I'm preparing my list. These sessions are must-see's for me!

• CON3923 - Classic Mistakes with Oracle Application Development Framework
• HOL9967 - Developing Applications for Mobile Devices with Oracle ADF Mobile Client: Hands-On Lab
• CON5623 - Deep Dive into Oracle ADF: Advanced Techniques
• CON2785 - Oracle ADF Implementations Around the Globe: Best Practices
• UGF10374 - Mobile Development with Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF
• GEN9398 - General Session: Adaptive Development with Oracle Fusion—From Desktop to Mobile to Cloud

My selection is based on both topic and speakers. For now, I've only looked into the ADF sessions. I'll look into other topics (Cloud, Java, ...) later on, and will continue to update this list.

ADF in Eclipse

Oracle organizes a free virtual event, to show some best practices in building rich ADF applications, based on ADF Data Controls, using standard Java technologies (EJBs, JPA, ...).

There's also a live Q&A chat with Oracle technical staff. The event takes place on July 10. You can register here.

Random Hacks of Kindness

Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a an initiative originated by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, NASA and the World Bank. The objective is to bring together experts around disaster management and crisis response with volunteer software developers and designers in order to create solutions that have an impact in the field.

RHoK has periodical events, known as hackathons. The next hackathon will be organized by Contribute, and will take place 2 - 3 June 2012. For more information and registration, go to http://www.rhok.be/.

Entry is free, food and drinks will be provided. This hackathon is in cooperation with the Open Knowledge Foundation, and you'll receive more information about Amnesty International through a video link with a hackathon event in Berlin.

Summer of Technology @Contribute

It's that time of the year again! Summer is coming, and with summer comes Contribute's Summer of Technology.

During the months of July, August and September, Contribute organizes 12 free workshops. I am proud to announce that I'll be co-presenting one of them. It will be about building a Wicket application on Google App Engine. Click here for more details! Of course, there's much more than just my session, an a lot more topics than web application development will be covered.

Choose the session(s) that interest you, and subscribe. If you're having troubles viewing the website or registering yourself for one of the events, contact info@contribute.be.

Hope to see you on one of the sessions!

Free Advanced ADF course

Great news! Oracle now provides free online training for ADF. According to Grant Ronald's blog, more parts of this course will be released in the coming weeks.

Get started, or sharpen your ADF skills...