Welcome to the 73rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database related blogs. Without further ado, here it is, in no specific order:

Lewis Cunningham of An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology, in his RAT smelling post, asks about Real Application Testing (RAT) and its relationship with other acronyms like Fake Application Testing (FAT), […]

Google just announced a new Google Maps feature:

Starting today, Google Maps supports collaborative map-making, so multiple people can edit the same My Map. Just click the “Collaborate” link and enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite. They’ll receive an email invitation with a link to the map. Once they […]

I felt like doing something new last weekend, so I went ahead and created Oracle in 3 Minutes, a new “show” on blip.tv. I plan to produce one three-minute episode a week. An episode is basically an audio and video screencast.

Each episode includes a demonstration and a presentation about fundamental Oracle concepts and coding techniques […]

The title says it all. Grab the presentations from www28.cplan.com/cc176/catalog.jsp. There are still empty slots, but pretty soon I expect them to fill up. Last year’s presentations are no more available, so make sure you download and save the ones that you’re interested in before they are taken offline.

Oh, and by the way, you need […]

The past couple of days at Oracle OpenWorld have been very enjoyable, though tiring sometimes. Here is a sampler of my activities so far:

Recorded a podcast with Justin Kestelyn. Take a listen here.

Attended OTN Night:

Met with Dan Norris, Laurent Schneider, Andrew Clarke and others at OTN Night:

Met Jake and Rich from OracleAppsLab and talked about […]

Whether you’re attending Oracle OpenWorld this year or not, the following Web 2.0 services will keep you informed about up to the minute happenings during the conference:

Official Stuff

OTN RSS headlines OTN openworld07 del.icio.us stream OpenWorld content on the Oracle Wiki OTN videos on kyte.tv OTN podcasts from the floor OpenWorld Connect Groups otnatopenworld twitter channel

Unofficial Stuff

Flickr photos tagged openworld07 OpenWorld flickr […]