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After arriving back at home in Pennsylvania an hour or so ago, I thought I\u2019d write up my experience at the\u00a0Virginia Oracle Users Group<\/a>\u00a0conference held October 9th and 10th at the\u00a0Omni Richmond Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In short, it was awesome. Not only did I get to see ex-coworker\u00a0Lewis Cunningham<\/a>, but I also got to meet well-known\u00a0APEX<\/a>\u00a0guru\u00a0Scott Spendolini<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Sumner Technologies<\/a>,\u00a0John Krahulec<\/a>\u00a0(promoting a nice PL\/SQL AJAX toolkit called\u00a0TURBO Enterprise Web 2.0<\/a>), April Sims (an editor for IOUG\u2019s\u00a0SELECT Journal<\/a>), Bathula Ganga of\u00a0GIT Services<\/a>, and many other professional Oracle developers and DBAs. I also sat in on the Oracle\u00a0Exadata<\/a>\u00a0presentation, which appears to be a fairly beefy (yet expensive) hardware\/software bundle; I can\u2019t wait to see a TPC-H for it.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I missed\u00a0Steven Feuerstein\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0keynote, though I\u2019ll probably be able to catch it at another conference. Likewise, because I had to leave early, I missed several of today\u2019s interesting afternoon presentations.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I\u2019d especially like to thank Shannon Beckerich and all the other administrative members of VOUG for inviting me to speak and for putting on a splendid conference. In my opinion, the hotel was an excellent venue, and I found the session content well-rounded and applicable to many of the challenges facing today\u2019s Oracle developers and DBAs.\u00a0 I look forward to visiting VOUG again in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After arriving back at home in Pennsylvania an hour or so ago, I thought I\u2019d write up my experience at the\u00a0Virginia Oracle Users Group\u00a0conference held October 9th and 10th at the\u00a0Omni Richmond Hotel. In short, it was awesome. 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