Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Software Architecture for Developers coming to Oslo and London in May - Coding the Architecture "What's it about? Well, in a nutshell, it's about the software architecture role, regardless of whether that role is undertaken by a single person or shared amongst everybody on a self-organising agile team." (tags: softwarearchitecture training) Kscope's Gone Mobile "Kscope11? Yeah, there’s an app for that!" (tags: kscope11 odtug mobileapps) Alex Gorbachev: Handling Human Errors "Regardless...

Peter Flemming Teunissen Sjoelin: The Enterprise Architect: The Abilities of the Enterprise Architect, and what Should be Expected of Him Peter Flemming Teunissen Sjoelin's extensive paper. (tags: enterprisearchitecture entarch) Webcast: Make Oracle your Choice for ETL - April 20 Date/Time: April 20, 2011 9 a.m. PT/5 p.m. GMT. Speakers: Mala Narasimharajan (Sr Product Marketing Mgr, Oracle Data Integration) and Jeff Pollock (Sr Dir Product Management, Oracle). (tags: oracle otn etl) BA...

Webcast: Introducing Oracle Enterprise Gateway - April 14 Thursday April 14. 10am PT / 1pm ET. Speakers: Maneesh Joshi and Jyothi Swaroop. (tags: oracle otn) The quiet rise of machine learning - O'Reilly Radar From Goodreads to Google to Orbitz, machine learning is slowly becoming part of everyday life. Alasdair Allan discusses current uses and how machine learning factors into his own robotic telescope network. (tags: ping.fm) Chris Johnson: Oracle Fusion Middleware Security: OAM...

There’s a new Java Magazine on the horizon, and it’s yours for the asking!  That’s right: it’s free. And since it’s in digital form your trees are safe. Java Magazine is an essential source of knowledge about Java technology, the Java programming language, and Java-based applications for people who rely on them in their professional careers, or who aspire to.The magazine will contain articles direct from Java engineers at Oracle as well as the Java community at large. Topic...

Back in November 2010 I had the great pleasure of interviewing Scot Delap (Riot Games) and Randy Stafford (Oracle) just moments after their presentation at QCon San Francisco. (As it happens, that conversation continued through the QCon closing reception later that evening and on into a great dinner.) You can check out that interview here: http://bit.ly/fPr5AH The video of Scot and Randy’s presentation is finally available on InfoQ: League of Legends: Scaling to Millions of...

Chris Johnson: Using Apache to simulate an SSL Load balancer Chris Johnson shares "a quick setup you can copy/paste to get you going." (tags: oracle apache fusionmiddleware) Chief Information Officers Council - Open 311 Initiative Launch This initiative ties together efforts in San Francisco, Boston, the District of Columbia, Portland, and Los Angeles to open more services to citizens, and to use data to drive progress in people’s lives. (tags: cio gov) Freakonomics: How Richard...

The following people are scheduled as speakers and/or panelists for Oracle Technology Network Architect Day, April 21, 2011, at the Sheraton Centre Toronto, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario. (Registration information) Cary Millsap Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap is an entrepreneur, software technology advisor, software developer, writer, Oracle software performance specialist, and former Oracle Corporation Vice President. Active and influential in the community, he...

America's Most And Least Reputable Big Companies - Forbes.com Here are the businesses consumers like and dislike more than any others. (tags: ping.fm) Ramkumar Menon: Oracle Enterprise Manager FMW Control versus Oracle Enterprise Manager Senior Product Manager Ramkumar Menon responds to customer questions on "what comes extra within our EM Grid Control offering above and beyond our EM FMW Control." (tags: oracle otn fusionmiddleware enterprisemanager grid) Eric Maurice: Understanding...

Simon Brown: Deliberate practice, effective sketches - Coding the Architecture "I tend to use a collection of simple diagrams," says Brown,  "each of which focusses on a specific level of abstraction ... context, containers, components and classes." (tags: entarch) The Big Data Revolution Will Affect Us From Head To Toe - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ The social, technical and business issues raised by the growth of storage and computing capacity will have wide-ranging...