• Oracle Technology Network Developer Day: MySQL - New York
  www.oracle.com
  Wednesday, May 02, 2012 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
  Grand Hyatt New York
  109 East 42nd Street,
  Grand Central Terminal
  New York, NY 10017
• OTN Architect Day - Reston, VA - May 16
  www.oracle.com
  The live one-day event in Reston, VA brings together architects from a broad range of disciplines and domains to share insights and expertise in the use of Oracle technologies to meet the challenges today’s solution architects regularly face. Registration is free, but seating is limited.
• InfoQ: Seven Secrets Every Architect Should Know
  www.infoq.com
  Frank Buschmann’s secrets: User Tasks-based Design, Be Minimalist, Ensure Visibility of Domain Concepts, Use Uncertainty as a Driver, Design Between Things, Check Assumptions, Eat Your Own Dog Food.
• Roadmaps for the IT shop’s evolution | Andy Mulholland
  www.capgemini.com
  Andy Mulholland discusses "the challenge of new technology and the disruptive change it brings, together with the needs to understand and plan, or even try to gain control of end-users implementations."
• Drive Online Engagement with Intuitive Portals and Websites | Kellsey Ruppel
  blogs.oracle.com
  "The web presence must be able to scale to support the delivery of personalized and targeted content to thousands of site visitors without sacrificing performance," says WebCenter blogger Kellsey Ruppel. "And integration between systems becomes more important as well, as organizations strive to obtain one view of the customer culled from WCM data, CRM data and more."
• New Exadata Customer Cases | Javier Puerta
  blogs.oracle.com
  Javier Puerta shares links to four new customer use cases featuring details on the solutions implemented at each of these sizable companies.
• Invoicing: It's time to catch up! | Jesper Mol
  www.nl.capgemini.com
  Capgemini's Jesper Mol diagrams an e-invoicing solution that includes Oracle Service Bus.
• Using SAP Adapter with OSB 11g (PS3) | Shub Lahiri
  blogs.oracle.com
  Shub Lahiri shares a brief overview outlining the steps required to build such a simple project with Oracle Service Bus 11g and SAP Adapter for the PS3 release.
• Northeast Ohio Oracle Users Group 2 Day Seminar - May 14-15 - Cleveland, OH
  www.neooug.org
  More than 20 sessions over 4 tracks, featuring 18 speakers, including Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap, Oracle ACE Director Rich Niemiec, and Oracle ACE Stewart Brand. Register before April 15 and save.

Thought for the Day

"Today, most software exists, not to solve a problem, but to interface with other software."

— I. O. Angell