Sheila Cepero

Oracle Exadata recipes is written for individuals that want to quickly learn and develop effective proven solutions without reading lengthy manuals scrubbing for techniques. - Sheila Cepero

Building and Managing a Cloud Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c thoroughly explains how to architect, configure, and manage components of a public or private cloud lifecycle. Discover how to choose the right architecture, deploy applications, govern self-service provisioning, monitor users, and implement security. This Oracle Press guide features best practices and case studies from the authors' experiences as Oracle product managers. This book can be purchased at www.amazon.com. - Sheila Cepero

Ben Prusinski and Gustavo Gonzalez co-authored the Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Handbook, Third Edition, which describes new features in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12- an integrated solution made up of more than 150 software modules. The new edition of this popular title focuses on those applications that are oriented toward financial management and everything you need to know when it comes to upgrading. - Sheila Cepero

Ben Prusinski and Gustavo Gonzalez co-authored the Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Handbook, Third Edition, which describes new features in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12�an integrated solution made up of more than 150 software modules. The new edition of this popular title focuses on those applications that are oriented toward financial management and everything you need to know when it comes to upgrading. - Sheila Cepero

Take a sneak peek into the newly released PeopleSoft PeopleTools Data Management and Upgrade Handbook with the authors Paula Dean and Jim Marion. - Sheila Cepero

Did you hear about Redpatch? We've been taking the monolothic Red Hat patch tarball and breaking it into smaller commits internally ever since this change. We feel that everyone can benefit from the work we already do to get our jobs done, so now we're sharing these broken-out patches publically. We've named the project 'Redpatch' and have published it on Oracle's Open Source portal, oss.oracle.com. In this podcast you will hear about what it is and how you can access and benefit from this community work we have done. - Sheila Cepero

Oracle has a long history of strong support and commitment to Linux, as evidenced by numerous, on-going technical contributions and collaboration with the Linux community. In this podcast you will hear from key kernel developers as they highlight important Linux community projects. - Sheila Cepero

Did you hear about Redpatch? We've been taking the monolothic Red Hat patch tarball and breaking it into smaller commits internally ever since this change. We feel that everyone can benefit from the work we already do to get our jobs done, so now we're sharing these broken-out patches publically. We've named the project 'Redpatch' and have published it on Oracle's Open Source portal, oss.oracle.com. In this podcast you will hear about what it is and how you can access and benefit from this community work we have done. - Sheila Cepero

Providing access to applications is no longer just about IT supplying a managed desktop PC or laptop for a user. Today, users want to access their applications, data, and even their entire desktop environment from their home PCs, Macs, and tablet devices. And they want to work anywhere, not just at the office. In this podcast, Oracle's John Renko and Chris Kawalek discuss how BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is enabling modern work routines and how Oracle can help make working securely from anywhere a reality for your organization. - Sheila Cepero

Brad Cameron, Vice President of Exalogic Product Development, speaks with Tom Plunkett, lead author of the recently published "Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Handbook", about his motivations for writing the book, the breadth of topics it covers, and how it can help organizations deploy their applications on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. - Sheila Cepero

Developing Essbase Applications: Advanced Techniques for Finance and IT Professionals is the proceedings of the best technical Essbase conference there ever could be with unparalleled investigation and explanation of Essbase theory and good practices. - Sheila Cepero

Paul Rodwick, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle Business Intelligence, speaks with Mark Rittman, author of the recently published "Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide", about his motivations for writing the book, the breadth of topics it covers, and how it can help both new and experienced developers using Oracle's business intelligence platform to create rich interactive dashboards using a wide variety of data sources. - Sheila Cepero

This book on MySQL backup and recovery is an essential guide to protecting your important business information, including working with MySQL in the cloud. All the possible approaches to perform and manage MySQL backups and applicable recovery considerations are covered, including many case studies of known disasters. Advanced features for compression, incremental and remote management capabilities are also described with detailed working examples. - Sheila Cepero

Securing systems and operating systems hardening is a first step in achieving application availability and data protection,thereby ensuring confidentiality and mitigating risk for an organization. Listen to this podcast and hear from James Morris, the lead security developer for the Linux kernel as he explains how you can ensure the security of your Linux environment. - Sheila Cepero

In this podcast Donald Smith (Director, Product Management, Oracle Corporation) will interview co-authors James Weaver and Stephen Chin concerning the newly-released Pro JavaFX 2 book. James and Stephen are developers/speakers/authors who are active in the Java/JavaFX community, and have recently joined Oracle's Java Evangelism team. Pro JavaFX 2 may be obtained from Amazon.com at the following link: http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Jav... - Sheila Cepero

Listen to a lively interaction between David Peake, Oracle Application Express (APEX) product manager, and the authors of Agile Oralce Application Express, Patrick Cimolini and Karen Cannell. Get strategic insights into the relationship between Agile and APEX that will help you and your team become more productive. - Sheila Cepero

Oracle expert and author Rich Niemiec discusses best practices for optimizing performance in his his latest book on Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques. - Sheila Cepero

A conversation with two luminaries of Governance, Risk and Compliance Management, Nigel King and Adil Kahn - Sheila Cepero

Learn how to use Java to create graphically exciting client applications with JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example. This book takes you through a series of engaging, fun-to-work examples that bring you up to speed on the major facets of the platform. It will help you create applications that look good, are fun to use, and that take advantage of the medium to present data of all types in ways that engage the user and lead to increased productivity.JavaFX 2.0 - Introduction by Example - Sheila Cepero

Listen to the authors discuss their new title "The Well-Grounded Java Developer" which offers a fresh and practical look at new Java 7 features, new JVM languages, and the array of supporting technologies you need for the next generation of Java-based software. Ben and Martijn will discuss what they covered with Java 7 features (e.g. Project Coin, try-with-resources, NIO.2 and more) as well as why they covered important topics such as JVM internals, concurrency and performance tuning. The Well-Grounded Java Developer is no longer tied to just one language and the authors also cover why they emphasised a cross-section of emerging JVM-based languages, including Groovy, Scala, and Clojure in this book. Ben and Martijn are also heavily involved in the Java community and Java standards and the OpenJDK. They'll discuss why it's vital for day to day developers to get involved and how it's easier than ever before. - Sheila Cepero

Written by Oracle business process management experts, Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Handbook is a balanced combination of essential BPM concepts, best practices, and a detailed treatment of all the powerful features and functionalities of Oracle BPM Suite 11g. The book explains how to plan, develop, and deploy process-based business applications and enable enterprise-wide continuous process improvement. Heidi Buelow, Sr. Principal Product Manager, Oracle BPM Suite, interviews Manoj Das, one of the authors of Oracle BPM Suite 11g Handbook. Hear Heidi discuss with Manoj how this book can be effectively used to master the concepts needed for successful BPM implementation. Heidi and Manoj dig deep into some of the salient topics such as ADF, Business Rules, and BPMN 2.0. - Sheila Cepero

Mike Casey, Oracle Director-Product Management sits down with author Peter Fugere to discuss the first Oracle Press book about the popular Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). This book details the experiences, approaches to design implementation and supporting the premier consolidation and reporting tool in the industry. Written for people new to the tool all the way to experienced developers, this book offer guidance not found anywhere else. - Sheila Cepero

Oracle XML DB is a key component in Oracle Database. Listen to Vikas Arora, Director of Oracle XML DB Development, interviews Jinyu Wang, the author "Oracle Database 11g: Building Oracle XML DB applications'. They will discuss main reason for the book, the substance of new book, and how you can use book as a practical guide to start building Oracle XML DB applications. - Sheila Cepero

How is Oracle Fusion Applications both more complex and easier to manage at the same time? Veteran Support Engineer Richard Bingham talks about the new title Managing Oracle Fusion Applications and explains how the baked-in system management features provide administrators with more of what they need and some of what they might never have thought possible. - Sheila Cepero

Max Katz and Ilya Shaikovsky, the authors of Practical RichFaces (Apress, 2nd edition) discuss their motivation for updating the book to the latest RichFaces 4 - the most popular and enterprise ready rich JSF 2 framework. Learn how RichFaces 4 upgrades JSF 2 with advanced customisation, features, and large number of rich components. Learn what's in new in this book, what are some challenges with JSF, what are the future plans for RichFaces, will they include mobile and HTML5 support? - Sheila Cepero

Kirk Mosher, VP CRM and Alexander Hansal, Senior Principal Instructor at Oracle discuss Alex's books - Siebel CRM 8 Installation and Management (published August 2010) and Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook (April 2011). Tune in and find out how you can benefit from the books and Alex's Siebel Essentials blog (http://siebel-essentials.blogspot.com) and how they complement Oracle University course offerings. - Sheila Cepero

Markus Zirn, VP of Product Marketing for Oracle Fusion Middleware, conducts and interview with Reza Shafii and Gangadhar Konduri the authors of a new book: Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g - Architecture and Management. Hear Markus discuss with the authors the book's content and target audience, how it applies to Oracle Fusion Applications, and some of the more exciting areas of functionality in Fusion Middleware 11g. - Sheila Cepero

Listen to Oracle ACE Michael "Misha" Rosenblum, one of the contributing authors of the new Apress book "Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBAs" discuss the role of server-side development and effective utilization of Oracle's advanced database features (such as Michael's favorite Dynamic SQL). The book is a collection of monographs from experts using PL/SQL in production applications and can be used as ammunition to fight skeptics who claims that PL/SQL "is not cool" any more. - Sheila Cepero

David Peake, Principal Product Manager for APEX, chats with some of the authors of Beginning Application Express 4. They will discuss various aspects about the book including the main reason for the book, who the book is focused towards, and some behind the scene information about writing the book. - Sheila Cepero

Duncan Mills, senior director of product management for Oracle's Development tools and Sten Vesterli discuss the forthcoming book "Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development-Made Simple", the growth of ADF's popularity and hints and tips for the aspiring ADF developer. - Sheila Cepero