Thursday Twitter - 11/14/13

After yesterday's news, I'm revitalized a bit to share a BUNCH of new things with you but it's Thursday.  You know what that means right?  That's right kids, it's time to visit Twitter!!  All that energy means that I'm sharing almost TWICE as many items as I normally do!

https://twitter.com/footballears/status/397018319657914368 - Frits Hoogland shares the BEST tweet of the week.  The week isn't even over yet, but I'm not going to see anything better than this!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/401071204314120192 - Oracle announces the Big Data X4-2 Appliance!

https://twitter.com/methodr/status/400352523929677824 - Cary Millsap had released a new book!

https://twitter.com/oraclecloudzone/status/400298064470368256 - Oracle now has 17 Cloud data centers!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/oraclepress/status/399942337427939328 - Get Chapter 8 of the brand new Oracle Database 12c: Install, Configure & Maintain Like a Professional for free!

https://twitter.com/oracle_edu/status/399963239771279360 - Test your knowledge of GoldenGate!

https://twitter.com/csierra_usa/status/400237401269760000 - Carlos Sierra's scripts and presentations.

https://twitter.com/uwehesse/status/400556683526930432 - Uwe Hesse tells us that the Exadata documentation is generally available for our continued learning!

https://twitter.com/oraclepress/status/400708598608977920 - Another free chapter, this time about tuning for EBS R12.

https://twitter.com/stevefeuerstein/status/400973819302539264 - Steve Feuerstein has a session about the power of names in code.  Sounds interesting!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/fritshoogland/status/400906989091319808 - Have Oracle Diagnostic Pack installed?  Frits tells you something you need to know!

https://twitter.com/dbakevlar/status/400844582113787904 - Kellyn Pot'Vin shares 10 things Linux admins should know.

https://twitter.com/oraclehardware/status/400578813283016704 - Engineering as a Service?  Really?  News to me!

https://twitter.com/oraclemagazine/status/400372431912574977 - Great snippet about being proactive.

https://twitter.com/mariselsins/status/399932917888983040 - Maris Elsins introduces us to a command line interface for downloading MOS patches.

https://twitter.com/sql_handle/status/398927333614026752 - Another thought-provoking tweet!

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/nocoug/status/401057044561539072 - NoCOUG fall conference details and did you know that first-time attendees are free?  https://twitter.com/nocoug/status/401057204175765504

https://twitter.com/collab_oaug/status/400996072845107201 - OAUG let's us know that Collaborate 14 speakers will be announced on the 19th or 20th.