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January 20

Jeff Holt and Cary Millsap Presenting in Holland

As you probably know, Jeff and Cary are giving a Performance Masterclass in Utrecht currently. Day 2 has just finished and as always during Cary’s (and in this case also Jeff’s) presentations, I have a ton off new idea’s regarding performance, aka XML(DB) issues / performance. So I think its worth our time and money (I hope I speak on behalf of the attendees), and a job well done for getting those guys to the other side off the pond (thanks to Miracle Benelux who organized the event).

We, the attendees, are roundabout 30 people and to my surprise they come from all over the place. If I have listened carefully during the opening session from: Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium,  Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway and even…someone from from California…Wow!

Anyway, pictures say more then words about the atmosphere, so hereby some of “the prints” / “mug shots” I made. Enjoy.

Pictures

So hereby in more or less random order…

The Agenda

The Agenda

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January 7

ADVERT: A 3 Day Oracle Performance MasterClass

Do you want to learn how to get your Oracle Database to perform better?

Then you better be fast…

😉

There are only a limited amounts off slots still open for the  3 day Oracle Performance MasterClass with Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt from Method-R on 19, 20 & 21 of Januari in the Netherlands.

The costs for this MasterClass will be 1599 Euro. If you want to be there and join them for a great MasterClass then register through the website www.miraclebenelux.nl or Click here for the registration form.

The form is in Dutch if you encounter any problem just email them at seminars[@]miraclebenelux.nl and they will help you!

Language spoken during the Masterclasses will be English.

Agenda

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April 22

Why XML Does and Doesn’t Fit the Real World

At current state, my world is a container and it is useless. I want to store content in it but I doesn’t comply to my container…

Today I visited Cary Millsap’s blog site and read his latest article about “Messed Up App of the Day” and could sympathize with his remarks. While looking for other articles that I maybe missed I saw Cary’s link “Joel on Software” and thought, “hey, I almost forgot about that cool website, so have a look”. Joel made an impression on me a long time ago with an article that was called “How Microsoft Lost The API War”(2004). I crawled a little bit around on Joel’s web site and found that really, really great article about “Martian Headsets“, that I could relate too, because I am a pragmatist trying to apply idealistic methods, but as said in the first line of this blog post, it just doesn’t work.

Being a “Martian”, I also like all my Martian colors of red… and I also like my “Qxyzrhjjjjukltk“. Cary has the same problem with his blog posts (you will understand if you read Joel’s blog post about the “Martian Headsets“) about “Messed Up App of the Day“ URL’s. He created a practical solution to a problem introduced by a idealistic standard.

The cool thing about XML is it’s natural human nature: It is free format.
The horrible thing about XML is it’s natural human nature: It is free format.

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