Oracle developer choice awards
From June 21, Oracle opened up nominations for what they have dubbed Oracle developer choice awards, in 5 broad categories:
- SQL
- PL/SQL
- ORDS
- APEX
- Database Design
There has been a panel that has narrowed down the nominations from each category, and now the voting has opened up - until the 15th October.
You are able to vote for more than one person in each category, the rules don't specify how many votes in each category, but I would encourage selecting a few of the people you think are most deserving in the community and giving them an up-vote.
Please choose wisely, because the system doesn't allow you to undo your upvote - the only way to undo that vote, is to then down vote. So unless you feel very strongly that that person shouldn't be awarded and wish to down-vote them, I emplore you to choose wisely.
The APEX candidates
Jari Laine
Very active of the OTN APEX forum, from well before I even started working with APEX. The time he has spent assisting the community is really something to be admired. He has an APEX blog - http://jaris.blogsite.org/apex/f?p=BLOG:HOME - that he built in APEX, and open sourced! If you prefer to look at samples, go to one of his sample applications: https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=39006 or http://actionet.homelinux.net/apex/f?p=100, both with countless examples.
Vote here: https://community.oracle.com/ideas/6894
Juergen Schuster
Juergen is really active promoting APEX, so much so that he created an APEX (apeks) sticker that many people are now rocking on their laptops (the word on the street is that he even sends them to people all over the world, at no charge!). He also recently started a talk back show speaking with prominent figures in the APEX community including the APEX development team - you can find existing podcasts listed here: http://apex.press/talkshow.
Vote here: https://community.oracle.com/ideas/6893
Paul MacMillan (fac586)
Also very active on the OTN forums, and in my opinion will be the first to bring anyone up on poor practices new people to APEX might be using in their systems. This can only be a good thing! He is constantly help people get their problems resolved - and definitely deserves some recognition for all his efforts!
Vote here: https://community.oracle.com/ideas/6888
Morten Braten
Have you ever heard the Alexandria PL/SQL utility? If you haven't, it's a large collection of pl/sql utilities in one spot! And Morten is the one behind this awesome project. If that's not a contribution to the APEX community, I don't know what is! The project was recently moved over to GitHub - https://github.com/mortenbra/alexandria-plsql-utils, so if you haven't heard of it, go and check it out.
Vote here: https://community.oracle.com/ideas/6889
Kiran Pawar
Yet another member of the community that has become very active in the APEX forums of late (as well as other forums such as ORDS). Between Kiran, Jari and Paul, I think you should be pretty well covered with any questions you may ask on the forums!
Vote here: https://community.oracle.com/ideas/6890
Karen Cannell
What better way giving back to the community the (co)authoring an APEX related book? Karen co-authored Agile Oracle Application Express, which is good supplementary material on how to leverage Application Express with agile methodologies.
Vote here: https://community.oracle.com/ideas/6891
Trent Schafer
Oh hi there, that's me! I started working with APEX about 7 years ago now and I am a firm believer in giving back to the community, so I began answering where I could on the forums, and learning from the other posts I would come across. I honestly believe APEX has a great community! I started a blog as a mean to share back my knowledge to create hopefully a good reference for people. If you think I am worthy, I appreciate any votes you send my way!
Vote here: https://community.oracle.com/ideas/6887