Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Live Webcast: Planning a Cloud Implementation Thursday May 26, 9:00am PT / Noon ET. Featuring Dr. James Baty, VP Oracle Enterprise Architecture. (Dr. Baty was a big hit at OTN Architect Day in Toronto. You'll find his slides and the others from that event here.) Peter Scott: Geography Hierarchies "Knowing your data is key to creating a correct model," says Scott. Ken Pulverman: Why Your ERP System Isn't Ready for the Next Evolution of the Enterprise"ERP as we've know it is...

Ross Jernigan: U.S. IT Employment Back to Pre-Recession Levels | Javalobby Ross Jernigan reports on recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that IT employment has regained what it lost in the recession. Oracle Database Insider: Customers Discuss Success with Oracle Exadata Links to a reference booklet that offers "a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries worldwide have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata." Kai Yu: How to Store...

In celebration of Bob Dylan's 70th birthday, here's a list of Dylan song titles that could be used to describe the experience of software architects... All Along The Watchtower Are You Ready? Beyond The Horizon Changing Of The Guards Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight Everything Is Broken Gotta Serve Somebody I Feel A Change Comin' On I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know It's All Good Let's Stick Together Life Is Hard Man Of Constant Sorrow Maybe Someday Million Dollar Bash Mixed-Up Confusion Most...

"Software engineer" among America’s 10 Least Stressful Jobs, says TIME Has someone told the engineers? Steven Lott: Creating UML | Architects Zone "I'm a big fan of plain-text tools," says Lott. "I'm not a big fan of proprietary file formats and document formats that are difficult or impossible to decode." Live Webcast: Helen Sun: Mastering Information Architecture Event Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET . Speaker: Helen Sun, Oracle Enterprise Architect. Tom...

Oracle ACE Director Ron Batra [blog] and Oracle enterprise architect Pat Shepherd [blog], two of the people I interviewed for my latest column in Oracle Magazine, made a point of mentioning the importance of presentations in communicating with IT architecture stakeholders. PowerPoint and its equivalents are certainly the tools of choice in such gatherings, and I've seen them used to great effect. But having endured my share of MEGO-inducing presentations ("My eyes glaze...

Dror Helper: The 7 levels of continuous integration | Agile Zone Helper says: "I’ve noticed that when other developers talk about continuous integration they do not always mean the same thing." Bill Fraser: Using KateSQL to connect to an Oracle database in Kate How-to from Pythian's Bill Fraser. Rene Kundersma: Relocating Grid Infrastructure (MAA | Exadata blog)Rene Kundersma describes the steps necessary when the Oracle 11gr2 Grid Infrastructure ORACLE HOME needs to be moved...

Dave Cabelus: WebLogic MDB and Distributed Queue Elastic Capabilities Dave Cabelus illustrates "how MDBs interact with a Distributed Queue, especially after an Automatic Service Migration event occurs." René van Wijk: Fun with Coherence Oracle ACE René van Wijk presents some goodies that "might come in handy when developing with Coherence." Peter F. T. Sjoelin: Holistic Management in a Context of Enterprise IT Management and Organizational LeadershipPeter F. T. Sjoelin's paper...

Robert Diana: 7 Tenets Of Framework Selection | Architects Zone Robert Diana offers advice on choosing the "various tools, libraries and frameworks that you want to integrate into [an] application." Mark Skilton: Facebook – the open source data center | The Open Group Blog Skilton says: "The recent announcement by Facebook of its decision to publish its data center specifications as open source illustrates a new emerging trend in commoditization of compute resources." Markus...

Sure, you already know everything. But on the chance that you want to overstuff your cranial hard drive and make your technical kung-fu even more unstoppable, you'll want to check out three new courses available from Oracle University. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Administration Gain the skills to install, configure, manage, and monitor the hardware and software components of Oracle Exalogic Oracle BI 11g R1: Build RepositoriesLearn step-by-step procedures for building and...