So, you're wondering what this "Big Data" thing is, and how it differs from Plain Old Data (POD)? That's OK. You're not alone.
If that's the case, the "Big Data Essentials" Online Forum is a perfect opportunity to get yourself up to speed - via the people most qualified to help you do that: Oracle's Tom Kyte and Cloudera CEO (and former Oracle development VP) Mike Olson. You'll not only learn the fundamental concepts, but you'll also hear how to acquire, organize, and analyze big data for the best possible business value, in an interactive online format.
Virtual Developer Days are such a huge hit, we just can't help ourselves. We'll be churning them out across 2012!
This time (Jan. 24 in Americas TZ, Feb. 7 in Europe TZ, and Feb. 9 in China TZ), we're bringing you a full "day" of hands-on content about working with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c, Oracle Coherence, Eclipse, NetBeans IDE, Maven, and Hudson to build modern, lightweight, Java EE 6 applications. Per usual, the labs are based on the use of a pre-built VirtualBox VM, and live chat with Oracle experts is possible across the day.
There really isn't any better way to get 2012 started. Register now!
You can stop holding your breath now. We have determined the Top 20 (meaning: most popular) Tech Articles Published by OTN in 2011!
What conclusions can we draw from this list? Well, for one: Traditionally, we publish a "Top 10" list at the end of the calendar year. But in 2011, there were so many popular articles published that this ceiling was too limiting.
Other conclusions:
Java developers love reading articles. Total domination of the page view numbers this year.
Adam Bien is not only a Java Champion, but a Page Views Champion as well. Neither Brittany Spears nor George Clooney would have been more helpful to us in that department.
You all seem fairly curious about Java 7, Java EE, and JavaFX.
If you have your own observations, let's see them in comments.
Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne Latin America was last week and there were lots of videos and podcasts recorded there. Here are some of the highlights (add your favorites in the comments, please): The JavaOne Community Keynote The JavaOne Community Keynotewas informative and funny. (Thanks to Loiane Groner for taping it!) The discussion ranged from the top 5 developments in Java in 2012, to women in technology, to how to brew coffee with Java (done on stage), to the announcement of jDuchessBR for Brazilian women using Java, to what developers do when they aren't coding. (in Brazilian Portuguese). Don't miss the video used to conclude the keynote, an improvement of the "Code Hard" video entitled "The Real Java Developers."
OTN Interviews I interviewed Java Experts, including Fabiane Nardon (Java EE), Loiane Groner (Java and Javascript), Jim Weaver (JavaFX) and Geertjan Weilenga (NetBeans). Yara Senger also interviewed her 80 year-old grandmother about her use of Java as a physicist. Those videos are now on Youtube/Java (look under Recent Activity). Another nice video from the OTN Lounge is this short discussion on why and how Juliano Viana works on Java EE 6 with LogicStyle's customers and how he uses GlassFish. Java Spotlight Podcasts The Java Spotlight Podcast Episode 60: Live from JavaOne Latin America includes an interview with Yara and Vinicius Senger on Global Code's 10th Anniversary, and with Mike
Lehmann, Oracle senior director of product management, providing insight
on the Weblogic 12c release. If you like your podcasts deeply technical, listen to this Java Spotlight Podcast with Alan Bateman on NIO2 APIs in JDK 7. There's nothing like the engineer working on a project to get into the technical details.
Thanks to all the developers in Latin America that made JavaOne Latin America such a success!