Our second official book review in on its way...

by Fábio Souza

Hi everyone, are you doing well? I'm fine, thanks for asking.
Well, I was wondering these days : "It would be a good idea to change the topic for a little while and talk about a product". It seems that someone at Packt Publishing heard me, and, to incentive myself, they invited us to write a review of a new book .
The topic is hot: Webcenter 11g. As you all know (I hope :)) this is a strategic product that arose to compete in the Enterprise 2.0 market.

The book is:
Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle WebCenter 11g

I'm very excited to read the book, but I can already tell you some good things about it:
- Vince Casarez is one of its reviewers
- It covers all the product's main points (installation, environment setup, custom applications, and so on)
- There is a Oracle WebCenter Spaces Overview

I hope to be posting the review soon!

Ahhh! I almost forgot (kidding, I was planning it) to say that our big friend and also architect master, George Maggessy, helped the writers with his WebCenter knowledge.

See you!

Our first official book review in on its way...

by Eduardo Rodrigues

Great news!

We have been contacted (surprisingly) by Packt Publishing a few days ago and asked if we would be interested in read one of their new books and then publish an independent review here in the blog. We were very honored and flattered with the offer, so we obviously accepted it.

The book is "Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g" by Deepak Vohra.

One good thing that immediately caught my attention as soon as the book arrived today was seeing the name "Frank Nimphius" in the list of reviewers. This is certainly a good sign :)

Anyway, Fabio and I already have the book and we'll both read it and then compile our comments in a 4-hand post to come. We hope it wont take too long (and also hope this will be just the first of many other book reviews to come).

Cheers and keep reading!

Fixed blog's appearance on IE6

Great news folks!

We've just fixed our blog's template so it'll be displayed 100% correctly on Internet Explorer 6 browser. Now, we expect this blog to render identically on both Internet Explorer and Firefox (hopefully on all other browsers too).

Please, let us know if there's still any visualization issues.

Cheers and... keep reading!

SCJP Group on LinkedIn

This one is for all Sun Certified Java Programmers out there.

You’re all invited to join the SCJP Group on LinkedIn. Joining will allow you to find and contact other certified members on LinkedIn. The goal of this group is to help members:

• Reach other certified programmers


• Accelerate careers/business through referrals from group members


• Know more than a name – view rich professional profiles from fellow SCJP Group members

Click here to join now!

Hope to see you in the group soon.

Cheers and keep reading...

New "acquisition"

Hi folks!

It's with the greatest satisfaction that I welcome the blog's most recent "acquisition": the Oracle consultant Fábio Saraiva de Souza. You may check his profile here.

Fábio is a good friend with whom I've had the opportunity to work for almost a whole year in my last project. As you will certainly notice, Fábio is one of that curious guys that are never satisfied until they really understand things to their deepest details.

Welcome Fábio! We'll be willing to read from you soon.

A new year with a new face

Hello everybody!

I can not think of anything better than a complete makeover to start the new year. And just because I can't do that to myself, it doesn't mean I can't do that to my blog. So I did it!

That's right. As you may notice (at least if you're already a reader) the look and feel is quite different, hopefully for the best. The blog now fills almost the whole screen which gives much more space for posts. I also adopted a more clean style, with a white-predominant background.

Some useful tools have been added at the upper right corner:


Now it is much easier to subscribe to all the amazing content posted here. It's even possible to receive all new posts directly into your e-mail. Ain't that just great?!

At last, and certainly not least, another huge improvement or, should I say... the final touch: now all blog's feeds are being redirected to FeedBurner. This means widely compatible, comprehensive and automatically disseminated feeds. Click here and see for yourself.

Well, I'm pretty happy with the blog's new look and improvements. I hope you all like it as much as I do.

May we all have a fantastic 2008 and... keep reading!!!