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Oracle University have lined up these courses, which are available here in the Philippines. Isn’t it cool?

Oracle Database
Oracle Database 11g: Administration Workshop I     5 Days     26-Oct-2009
Oracle Database 11g: Administration Workshop II     5 Days     9-Nov-2009
Oracle Database 11g: Performance Tuning     5 Days     19-Oct-2009
Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I     5 Days     9-Nov-2009
Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop II     5 Days     19-Oct-2009, 6-Nov-2009
Oracle Database 10g: Performance Tuning     4 Days     26-Oct-2009, 3-Nov-2009
Oracle Database 10g: Backup and Recovery     3 Days     26-Oct-2009, -Nov-2009, 3-Nov-2009
Oracle Database 10g: Data Guard Administration     3 Days     4-Nov-2009
Oracle9i Database Performance Tuning     5 Days     16-Nov-2009

There are more courses!

To register or for more information, please contact us at:
Telephone: 1800 1651 6277 / +632 9768896 or
Email: outraining_ph@oracle.com

Take advantage of it now!

Nokia is calling all mobile and web application developers worldwide to submit best-in-class applications for use on Nokia devices.

Developers can submit applications for the 2009 Calling All Innovators contest in these categories:

• Internet Innovation
• Flash
• Emerging Markets and Mobile Necessities

Submissions for the contest will be accepted until 30 June 2009, and the winners will be announced in September 2009.

Join now!

It’s a fact that software developers are in demand and thus are mostly well-paid. But we also know the other law of life. You have to be at the right time at the right place, and that if an opportunity comes, you have to grab it.

Other times, the right opportunity comes but we don’t know how to spot it or even take care of it well that it just slips through our hands and passes us by.

Here’s an interesting article on PCWorld: How to Land a Six-Figure Software Developer Job.

The author shares the sites that give tips on salaries, how to ace that interview and handle tricky questions.

Check it out!

Project Management Blog emphasizes the importance of synchronizing Business goals with PMO goals. “It is imperative to understand the overall Business goals of an Organization while it comes to executing Projects.”

Program and Project Management blog over at Toolbox for IT suggests project management solutions that help managers monitor reports efficiently. “It is for this reason amongst many that I find the reporting element should be as automated and efficient as the PM can make it…”

Over at Journyx Project Management Blog, Curt Finch, CEO of Journeyx, shares insights on finding profit in hard times. “Tracking time and expenses on a per-project or per-customer basis can give you a true understanding of where you are working profitably as an organization…”

At DailyBlogTips are the top 25 web desing blogs. It’s a good comparison of successful web design chronicles. I’m happy to find my favorite web design blog to be there, at number 2 at that! None other than the Smashing Magazine!

Which brings me back to my lates favorite post from Smashing Mag: “15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website.” I already emailed this post to my programmer team, and I hope we’ll be able to tick each item out as we go along.

This is Day #7 of 31-Day (Blogging) Challenge.

We hear about layoffs and closures left and right. The news is filled with these stories that we can’t help worrying about our job, too.

We might wake up one day and find that we’re out of job. *Knock on wood*

But not all jobs are vulnerable. As my father would always say, “There’s always room at the top. If you’re good at what you do, you will always find work in your hands.” Such reassuring words!

In any case, there’s nothing wrong if you do a little of self examination on where you are at your career. Are you in a crisis-proof industry? How would you  know which industry is crisis-proof in the first place?

PCWorld outlined the top 10 tech skills in a downturn. These are the skills that will have a slim chance of receiving the walking papers.

1. Business Process Modeling
2. Database
3. Messaging/Communications
4. IT architecture
5. IT security
6. Project management
7.  Data mining
8. Web Development
9. IT optimization
10. Networking

Read more…

So where are you now?

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