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Last week I visited ODTUG KScope15 in Hollywood Florida. In this post I will share my findings and hope that you can benefit from it. My general impression of the conference is that it was to hot for me in Florida. At least to hot for a conference. If you can sit on the beach whole day long, it is a great place to be, but hey, I had to work.... From a content perspective, there was a whole lot of Mobile and Cloud, and just a tiny bit of ADF. We need to work on this for next year as per request of the attendees who really were asking for more ADF content. Anyway, here is my week in a nutshell. Saturday Not much to do after an 18 hour trip. So when I arrived at the hotel the only thing to do was enjoy the view and get some Cuban food . What better place to do that then in Southern Florida. The food was good and I went there again during the week. Sunday The Sunday symposium was a very good one from an Oracle ADF Developer Perspective. The Sunday Symposium took a deep look at th...

In September (15th and 16th) we will be organising an IoT Hackathon together with Oracle. I preparation of that I will write several post here concerning IoT. This post gives you an Overview of Grove Pi sensors and some of the fun things that you can do with it. See also this two minute tech tip that is an intro to this post. The GrovePi+ Starterkit Connecting sensors to the Internet of Things (IOT) is really easy! No need for soldering or breadboards: plug in your Grove sensors and start programming directly. GrovePi+ is an easy-to-use and modular system for hardware hacking with the Raspberry Pi and the Internet of Things. Here is what the kit contains: The GrovePi+ Board 12 Grove sensors Grove cables for connecting the sensors to the GrovePi+ board. The following sensors and lights are in the kit: Grove – Sound Sensor Grove – Temperature and Humidity Grove – Light Sensors Grove – Relay Grove – Button Grove – Ultrasonic Ranger Grove – Rotary Angle Sensor Grove – ...

In September (15th and 16th) we will be organising an IoT Hackathon together with Oracle. I will write several post here concerning IoT, starting with this one where I tell you how to do the default setup of your Raspberry PI. See also this two minute tech tip that is an intro to this post. For configuring your raspberry Pi there are several options. I prefer to use a keyboard, monitor and mouse so I can actually see what I am doing. The Pi has several USB ports and also an HDMI port. So if you have a monitor, keyboard and a mouse available, you can plug those into your Raspberry Pi and you are all set. Connect to the power and the Pi will boot into an initial setup screen that allows you to select your preferred OS. That is of course only if you inserted an SD card in the Pi that contains the various available OS's. Select your preferred OS and click install so that the Operating System gets installed. After a short while, the installation is complete. Once the install h...

Sunday symposium took of at 8:30. Unfortunately i had to skip the first two session due to some work That had to be done first. The first session I really got to attend was Brian Fry's session on Oracles Developer Cloud Service. JDeveloper, Eclipse or Netbeans was the way you would work with Oracle Developer Cloud. Now there is a new feature (not publicly available) that is a browser based IDE. It is a full development environment. It is a very flexible, responsive and quick UI. it has an integrated out of the box GIT repository. It can be used for both JavaScript, and Java EE and java SE. Oracle uses the DevCS to build the DevCS with over 145 developers using 27 GIT repositories. So oracle now is drinking their own champagne, which sounds much better then eating their own dog food by the way.        The demo was nice and showed the power of the Javascript editor and the integrated support with GIT. also the Java editor looked very promising. We will have ...