OTN is excited to once again participate in ODTUG Kscope12 conference. This year ODTUG will be kicking up their heels in San Antonio, Texas, June 24-28. Join us there where we are proud sponsors ODTUG’s annual Community Service Day.

Oracle ACE and ACE Directors will be there in full force. You’ll find them presenting in all topic areas such as Application Express, Database, Developer’s Toolbox, Fusion Middleware, plus many others. Oracle ACE Director, Cary Millsap will be present a special evening keynote session on Monday, June 25. Grab your lunch and join the ACE-led panel sessions – “Lunch and Learn” on Tuesday, June 26.

Grab your hat and boots and meet us there!

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Good news for Oracle ADF developers: we have a new bimonthly newsletter, just for you.

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Oracle's Jessica McKellar and developer Asheesh Laroia recently led a session at PyCon 2012 on the subject of creating more diversity in the programmer community. The case study in question was The Boston Python User Group, which has worked diligently to create a membership composition that is 15% women - quite uncharacteristic for a user group.

Here's the session itself:

And here are the slides. This session is worth exploring by anyone interested in tactics for increasing programming community diversity.

May is an exciting month for Oracle Technology Network Members!  We have a brand new partner and many new offers from our existing partners. 

Safari Online Books is our NEW Partner and is offering OTN members a 10-day free trial + 20% off unlimited access to Safari Books Online for 6 months. Safari Books Online offers subscription access to more than 20,000 books and training videos about technology, digital media, business management and professional development from leading publishers such as Oracle Press, O'Reilly Media, Que, Addison-Wesley, Wrox, Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, McGraw Hill, Wiley, Apress, Adobe Press and many others.

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We have just opened registration for the newest edition of Virtual Developer Day: Hands-on Oracle Database 11g Application Development. This experience comes to you online on May 15, in the Americas TZ-friendly time of 9am-1pm PT.

In this workshop you'll learn the key tools, frameworks, techniques, and best practices for building database-backed applications through presentations and hands-on labs (which you can download and save) demonstrating innovative and performance-enhancing methods - all from your desk! Oracle experts will be on hand to answer your questions via real-time chat. 

As you can see from the agenda below, the day will include sessions on using Oracle NoSQL Database, using Oracle Database alongside Hadoop, as well as the forthcoming Database Cloud Service. Something for everyone!

Get on board, time is tight!