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 09 October 2003


Team Development Presentation @ UKOUG

On Tuesday, I went along to Oracle's London City office to present for the Modeling and Development SIG of the UK Oracle User Group. It was a pretty nice experience (developers don't get out much :) ), and it was great to meet customers solving real problems with our software... For some reason, my daily work of developing tools to help people develop stuff always seems one level removed from reality.

One of the aims of the presentation was to encourage some of the SIG members to come along and present about their experiences with Oracle software. Mostly, Oracle are represented at these things by product managers, and the idea this time was to have a couple of developers along as well to do presentations from more of a "this is how we did something" perspective.

My presentation was a little bit about team development from a theoretical perspective, but mostly concentrated on the practical aspects of development in the large multi-site JDeveloper team. It talks a bit about how we use version control internally, the way our code is organized, some of our team-related development practices and infrastructure (e.g. our automated build system).

The presentation slides are available either as HTML or using the original powerpoint file (259 KB).


5:01:26 PM     comment []

Easy Tiger

I've just been trying out JDeveloper under a preview of Tiger (Java 1.5) on Windows XP. I'm not sure how much I can say about the specific differences, but the Windows Look and Feel on WinXP has taken a huge step forward from the last time I tried 1.5.

It's still not quite right (pixelgeeks like me will still notice the differences), but a lot of the stuff fixed in WinLAF has been fixed in Swing, and also a bunch of stuff we haven't even got round to yet. This is great news... here's hoping that by the time Tiger comes out, the WinLAF project won't even be necessary :)


3:58:10 PM     comment []


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