One
of the really nice things about working with Oracle APEX is the sense of
community you gain through the forums with people scattered all over the globe.
Attending OpenWorld this year was a great opportunity to met face to face with several members of the APEX
development team and APEX enthusiasts after communicating with them via forums
and emails. It's really surprising how much personality comes through in the
written word.
They really are interested in your feedback and making APEX better.
Leading up to OpenWorld I had contacted some of the team members asking for a small enhancement for Plugins.
A few emails later, they had agreed to include the functionality in a future release.
Catching up with Patrick Wolf at the APEX booth, we talked a bit more on the subject with a couple of different approaches, before landing on a final solution.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the 4.02 patch which includes my enhancement request - bug# 10157646.
So that's why I go to conferences - to meet up with people I know online, talk shop, share ideas, and learn new stuff I can use at work.
How about you? Why do you go?
The next conference I'll be going to is the AUSOUG 2020 Conference in Perth, Australia on Nov 22-23.
Maybe I'll see you there.
1 comment:
I really love to go to technical conferences because you meet so many people and catch up with old friends.
It's not about the presentations itself (although some of them are super interesting), but about the little talks in between when you come up with new ideas and share interest with others.
I just presented at the ODTUG APEXposed conference in Brussels and had the impression everyone liked and enjoyed it (the conference it is, not only my presentation ;-) ).
Another important thing is talking to current or future business partners.
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