A new blog to watch, and you can catch up with it from Day 1. Those highly talented, successful and enviable chaps over at Miracle have started a training program with a difference. They've taken on a guy with pretty much no prior Oracle experience and aim to put him through a rigorous practical internship. I've been privileged enough to see a few of the things likely to be thrown this guy's way. 90 days in Hell is a pretty good title for the experience I feel. Jan is to be commended for daring both the program and to share the experience with the world. Right now Jan is starting withTom Kyte's latest book which is the introductory material for this course. You can probably judge just by this fact that the aim is to get someone out in 3 months time who will stand comparison with people who've worked for a few years in the industry.
I can think of only one other internship program like it, Joel Spolsky'sinternship program over at Fog Creek Software. There the focus was on software development, but a similar approach of teach people stuff by doing and learning from some of the best in the business while you are at it.