Happy Wednesday! We shipped a new type of OCI resource principal called Database Tools Identity. It gives schemas a way to have distinct resource principals. You can read all about it here or check the documentation linked in the post. icodealot.com/give-oracle-...

I have not used Quarkus yet for anything in production but exploring it in development and I like what I am seeing so far. Developer productivity feels like it will be 🔥

Thanks everyone who came to my talk at @commityourcode.bsky.social '25 or watched the stream. I appreciate you taking the time to be there and I hope you took something useful away from it. Thanks also for the feedback! Slides with examples and links are here: speakerdeck.com/icodealot/ma...

I look forward to nerding out about cloud tech at #CommitYourCode and learning from what others have put together. 🤓 See you in September!

And... we're back! On est de retour! Join us for the first event of the season Event in english 🇬🇧. 📢 Architect's Guide to Managing a Code Base 🎙️ @prpatel.dev 🗓️ August 26th 2025 at 5:30pm 📍 TS Imagine,355 Rue Sainte-Catherine O #700, Montréal, QC H3B 1A5 Signup now! www.meetup.com/montreal-jug...

Presenting or attending Commit Your Code 2025 in Plano, TX this September? I look forward to seeing you there! Great event for a good cause and even better outcomes. www.commityourcode.com

Just wrapped up the final exam for the Summer trimester and I think I nailed it 🤞 That's 2 classes down for the master's. 🤓📈

Official announcement/introduction to our MCP Server for Oracle Database blogs.oracle.com/database/pos...

First adventure (on the tabletop) in Tamriel. Daughter and I are playing through the intro campaign in Black Marsh.

ORDS 25.2 is now available for download! Download directly from www.oracle.com/database/tec... And review the Release Notes too www.oracle.com/tools/ords/o... I'm following up with a blog with some examples, so stay tuned! #newrelease #productupdate #ords #oracledatabase #newordswhodis #plsql #rest

New post! PARs are easier to manage in ORDS now, and a quick note for the #orclapex community www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2025...

My home for the next 1.5 hours or so. #Kscope25

Today is the day #Kscope25 at 1:30 Central in San Antonio room 5-6. > Get Connected to Databases in the Cloud with the Database Tools Service. There will be: - Content (live demos if the wifi holds true 🤞) - Quizzes to gain bragging rights + swag Come one, come all!

Going old school with The Chet today for #Kscope25 Wish you guys were here. 🍻

ODTUG is pleased to announce the ODTUG Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) community—a space designed to empower, connect, and support professionals who are building the future with Oracle’s next-generation cloud technology. To learn more and get involved, visit odtug.com/news/oci-community.

A little less than a week away from being able to learn with colleagues at #Kscope25! Come for the swag, stay for the content. 🍻 We will explore the meaning of all these cryptic symbols and how to use the tools Oracle is building to make using database connections in the cloud simple.

Do you use `jshell` ? (installs with Java) I find it nice for: - scratching out quick ideas - testing small syntax issues - or anything else you might do with a REPL (quick calculations, etc.) Tab completion is decent and it presents some JavaDoc content.

This is a great write up. Thanks for sharing it @frobertrti.bsky.social

So @krisrice.io and I started a new thing: a fast paced monthly news update for all things Oracle Database and Oracle Cloud, with a developer-first focus. Learn all about it, catch up from our first event, and sign up for the upcoming session next week! www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2025...

I need an OS level plugin that makes vim motions / bindings available everywhere contextually. I've been using vim bindings long enough now that I get subconsciously annoyed when an input or text editor doesn't have support for them.

Not me debugging code (without a debugger) where I was calling: > list.add(index, item); when I meant to call: > lilst.set(iindex, item); 🤦‍♂️🐜 How is your Thursday going?

Double dose of nerdery today. This one is about decorating objects (thanks GoF!) in Java and also looks at how to do something interesting with proxy objects. icodealot.com/tracing-inte...

Check out Oracle JDBC 23ai and the new service provider for OCI configuration, by example: - ADB Serverless - Database Tools connection - JDBC 23ai + OCI config provider (via SPI) icodealot.com/oracle-jdbc-...

If you're interested in speaking at Cloud World on topics involving appDev on Oracle Database - drop me a note. I'd be happy to co-present with you, and we can highlight your story! [email protected] - call for papers ends on the 23rd!

The inaugural event was great. I look forward to attending this year again and meeting other developers and talking tech. No doubt, great work ahead from the DSD/CYC team.

Trying out Speaker Deck so I'll post some of my presentations from this year there for reference. Here is one I delivered in March at DSD Night of Cloud. speakerdeck.com/icodealot/bu...

Hanging out with the DSD family tonight. 🫡

Them: someone stalked you on the internet today. pay us a hefty monthly service fee and we will name names. Me: lol, what?

I injured my back on vacation so I'm relaxing with a heat pad, some classic rock, and testing JetBrains' latest IDE updates.

The latest update for our Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VS Code (25.1) is now available. Tons of new features and bug fixes included. www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2025... Next scheduled update will be June and 25.2.

I just published the final post in my "Fun with OCI Functions" series! 🎉 This one is a deep dive into the Document Generator pre-built function on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Check it out: francois-robert.ghost.io/fun-with-oci...

Reposting for the day-time crowd. Interested in integrating external systems with AI? MCP might be interesting for you.

A bit of a side quest from cloud infrastructure. "I do worry that we are asking AI models to do (repetitively) more and more of the same exact tasks. The LLM is a kind of super Shlemiel hiding in plain sight." icodealot.com/so-you-need-...

Working on a writeup but in the meantime, here was my tech stack for the Java MCP server

For literal academic reasons, I implemented another MCP server but in Java this time. This one was just as easy to integrate with Claude, for example. The Java MCP server only has 2 tools at the moment. A "greeting" tool and a "lorem-ipsum" tool. Messages are passed over STDIO.

There are no real secrets here. If you want to play around with setting up your own model context protocol (MCP) tools (recommended) you should start here: spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/specificatio... ... I chose Go. You can probably use anything you want as long as STDIO is available.

I put together a basic JSON-RPC 2.0 server in Go that works with Claude to read compartment resources from my OCI tenancy (i.e. an MCP server) Then I asked Claude to generate Terraform code and an example architecture diagram. Mostly believable responses. I have much to ponder. 🤔

Listening to the soundtrack from Chorus (game) this morning and its making me want to replay the game. Music is such a great motivator. Now I just need a soundtrack for cleaning up the garage.

DevOps is widely adopted yet many developers still hesitate to apply its principles to their data stores. But there's no need for that—Database CI/CD is a reality. Not convinced? Take a look at this techbrief to learn how you can integrate your db into CI/CD pipelines: www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/...

I look forward to talking with folks at Kscope25 and walking through use cases for the Database Tools service in OCI. Hopefully I'll connect with you there in June!

Homemade donuts is where it's at! After delivering that last talk it had to be done. 😏

41-ish slides 😓 (really 41 clicks) in ~10 minutes? We'll see how it goes! All of my dry runs have been under 10 minutes comfortably. No objectives other than I hope this brings value for the Dallas Software Developers community. See y'all tomorrow night!

To donut, or not to donut? That is the question ⁉️

Sweeeeeet! I have the privilege of presenting for colleagues at #Kscope25 this year and sharing knowledge about Oracle Cloud. Really looking forward to this event. 😎

So much power in so few lines of code. Cheating a little because I am not showing the Secret in Vault creation but that's equally easy to setup. (i.e. a recent post on icodealot.com if that sounds interesting.)

This presentation I'm putting together for Dallas Software Developers "night of cloud" is making me hungry! My apologies to the DSD fam. Terraform has never looked so good. 🤓

Continuing a theme... Here is a quick OCI-specific example of creating secrets in a vault to automate the setup of password and wallet secrets for Database Tools connections using Terraform. icodealot.com/use-oci-terr...

Frameworks are great productivity boosters but sometimes you just need a light weight thing to map SQL results to an object. Jdbi is great for this jdbi.org 👇

Every time the chorus hits "Ventura Blvd." can't help but sing along.