Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Richard Veryard on Architecture: Content or Platform? "An innovative approach to strategy (in this case social media strategy) is driven by a quest - looking for different and innovative ways of creating direct and indirect value within our ecosystem." Oracle 11gR2 RAC on Oracle Linux 6.1 using VirtualBox… | Tim Hall Oracle ACE Director Tim Hall shares the details. Base64 encoding in Oracle BPEL 11g | Edwin BiemondBiemond says: "Sometimes in SOA Suite 11g you need to pass...

Three big OTN events are coming to Chicago in October: Oracle Technology Network Architect Day – October 24, 2011 The live one-day event brings together architects from a broad range of disciplines and domains to share insights and expertise in the use of Oracle technologies to meet the challenges today’s architects regularly face. Oracle Technology Network Developer Day: Modern Enterprise Java Development – October 25, 2011Network with peers and Oracle experts during this...

Database Technology Integration | Anthony Shorten A summary of "some of the Oracle database features and products that can be used with the Oracle Utilities Application Framework." WebLogic 11g start and stop automation | Michel Schildmeijer Michel Schildmeijer describes different start/stop techniques. JRockit Flight Recorder Plugin for WebLogic Tab Pack behind a Proxy | James Bayer JRockit jammin' with @JamBay. WebLogic Weekly for September 26th, 2011 | James BayerJames Bayer...

Achieving Fast Joins in Distributed Data-Stores [with] Snowflake Schemas... | Ben Stopford Stopford describes "a novel mechanism for storing data across a distributed architecture..." Normative Restriction of Design Freedom | Mike van Alst "A concept that I could use in my quest for the optimum architecture documentation metamodel," says van Alst. EPM 11.1.2 - Increasing JVM Size of WLS Admin Server | Ahmed AwanTips for tuning the Admin Server java heap size to...

New Oracle VM template : Oracle 11g Release 2 + Real Application Cluster patchset 3 (11.2.0.3) Wim Coekaerts with news of "a new set of the super cool Oracle VM RAC templates." Oracle & JBoss Comparison | Antony Reynolds Crimson Research has just published a paper comparing total cost of ownership (TCO) of WebLogic versus JBoss. DMTF publishes draft of Cloud API | William Vambenepe "Note to anyone who still cares about IaaS standards: the DMTF has published a work in progress." I...

If you're coming into San Francisco for OpenWorld a bit early and you're a fan of rootsy Americana music, you owe it to yourself to check out theHardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival taking place in Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park, Friday Sept 30 through Sunday Oct 2. The event is free, which makes the roster of artists all that more remarkable. FRIDAY SEP 30 (11am - 7pm)Blame Sally, Mekons, Zigaboo Modeliste - King of the Funky Drums, Charlie Musselwhite, Southern Culture on...

Oracle Database Appliance – (Baby Exadata) | Kerry Osborne Osborne says: "The Oracle Database Appliance is not really a Baby Exadata, depending on your definition of the word 'is.'" Oracle Database Appliance – mid market Exadata in a scalable (license) model | Lucas Jellema Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema offers a brief analysis. Oracle Database Appliance — What Does It Mean for You and Your Business? | Alex Gorbachev"Now it’s finally the time when I can share my thoughts...

The latest ArchBeat Podcast program started with a tweet: After reading that I had to round up a panel to open the issue to discussion. That panel includes: Lonneke Dikmanns | | Managing partner at Vennster, volunteer with the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG), co-founder of the SOA BPM Enterprise Methodology Group, and an Oracle ACE Director. Ronald van Luttikhuizen | | Managing partner at Vennster, Oracle ACE Director. Mike van Alst | | Architect with MShift Benjamin...

Design for Conversations & Conversations for Design (virtual ux) The coThinkTank keynote given by Paul Pangaro. In Defense of Agile Development (and Their Ilk) | Martin Widlake "I'm actually frustrated that in the last few years I have not seen Agile really succeed," says Widlake. To SYNC or not to SYNC - Part 2 (Maximum Availability Architecture) Ashish Ray takes time from OOW11 prep for the next article in the series on setting up Data Guard SYNC. NFS root access for Oracle...