17 Saturday Mar 2018
Posted in General
Last week we attended the Oracle EMEA PaaS Forum in Budapest. I have to say we’re proud to be part of a team that has picked up two conference awards. Firstly our CTO Luis Weir for Contributions to API Solutions and then the wider team have collected an award for overall Outstanding PaaS Contributions.
L-R, me, Amy Grange, Soham Dasgupta (Capgemini Netherlands), Luis Weir (Oracle Delivery Unit CTO), Jurijs (Yury) Fjodorovs
Some photos from the trip can be found a here.
20 Wednesday Dec 2017
Posted in APIs, General, Oracle, Technology
Monday night (18th December) I co-hosted with Luis Weir the first London OracleDeveloperMeetup. Despite being a Monday evening in the run up to Christmas where a lot of people will attending Christmas events, needing to finish present shopping or event started their holiday we still had a tremendous turn out. With nearly 50 people out of almost 100 registrations coming to the Oracle London Office.
The evening kicked off just after 6pm with beer, pizza and time for people to Network. At 7pm we started with what had been scheduled to be two short 25 minute presentations to share insights into API design best practices and an overview of Apiary. Such was the interest, interaction and conversation in the subject and content that the session over ran. But here in lies one the benefits of a Meetup over things like conferences. In the Meetup the is space and time for the presenters to adjust to what the attendees wish to cover rather than beholden to the venue scheduling.
With the presentation and discussions finding a suitable pause, it was an opportunity for a call to arms to be made, and for people to try using developing APIs. With a mission defined which we hope people will try to continue with as it will contribute to the next Meetup. You don’t need to have attended last night’s event to participate in the next Meetup. If you want see what we’re going to try achieve take a look at the end of the slide deck. We think it will be be very entertaining and the source of a lot of laughter and amusement.
Some people did take up the challenge, others took it as an opportunity to talk further about the technology or just network.
We have now setup a GitHub so that people can contribute to the development of the API ready for the next event (https://github.com/oracledeveloperslondon/droneAPI).
If you would like to see what is being tweeted about the event checkout #OracleDeveloperMeetup on twitter.
Photos can be seen here.
We hope you will join our Meetup and register for the event when we announce the final details. In the mean time give Apiary a try, share with us the API you have designed.
The slides are here:
22 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in General
My latest contribution to the Oracle Scene journal is available at here. This article looks at the evolution of APIs, and a look at modern API Gateway capabilities. The article uses an analogy to explian the capabilities in a non-techie way.
In addition to my article the team I’m part of get a mention for their wins at this years Partner of the Year awards.
13 Friday Oct 2017
Posted in General, Oracle, Technology
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Proud to have been part of the Capgemini team who picked up some Glassware last night at ther UK Oracle User Group Partner of the Year Awards …
Gold – Business Transformation
Silver – Middleware
12 Wednesday Jul 2017
Posted in chatbots
I have been fortunate to be supporting and occasionally contributing to a series of blogs on Chatbots being written by Leon Smiers, Capgemini Oracle Chatbot SME (and also Oracle Ace). The blog posts are:
I’ve been talking with Leon about what next in the blog series, and we can expect to see some more exciting blog posts in the series.
Chatbot Maturity Model
17 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in General
In addition to this personal site, and the Oracle ICS site we use to support the book, I now also have a company blog at Capgemini as part of their Expert Community which can be found 