AUSOUG 2014 Perth Conference

It’s that wonderful time of year again – no, not talking about springtime, when I’m stalked by airborne grass pollens causing me to choke and gag all day. The sound of a lawnmower is enough to elicit a sneezing fit – and in Aussie springtime, that’s most weekends. (I’m so glad my wife does the mowing at our place, usually while I’m at work. My son is now old enough to do the mowing – and I’m quite happy to pay him to do it, I can tell you!)

The “wonderful time of year” I referred to earlier is that time when the excitement of OpenWorld has petered a bit and AUSOUG have released the program for Perth’s excellent conference.

I’ll be presenting a talk about Building Maintainable Applications in Apex, which I sincerely hope will be a lot more interesting than the title sounds. (It’s funny how you think after rejecting several competing wordings, the title you finally settle on is perfect when you submit the abstract – but when you see it alongside the other gems on the program you think “surely I could have come up with a more interesting title?”. Oh well.)

I’ll be talking about why you should remove most of the business logic from your Apex application – or at least consider it. I won’t promise it will necessarily be earth-shattering or original. I think there’s some ideas here that are worth spreading around – get people thinking, talking and writing about. Most of the talk will be in reference to a recent greenfields project, but the ideas are ones I’ve picked up over the years at different locations and from other Oracle developers – bits that I find work well or seem worthwhile expanding on.

If that topic doesn’t grab you, you might be interested in hearing Tim Hall talk about virtualization. If I wasn’t speaking at the time I would have attended that one – so if you do, could you make sure to take a few notes for me? Thanks.

I hope to see you there. But – fake flowers only please.

WA Conference Program