Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

In a February 2011 New Yorker article about the Internet and its affect on the human experience, writer Adam Gopnik offers this observation: It isn’t just that we’ve lived one technological revolution among many; it’s that our technological revolution is the big social revolution that we live with. [From: The Information: How the Internet gets inside us] The big social revolution Gopnik refers to is driven, of course, by social computing and applications like Twitter and...

Analysis: Gartner on the Future of Enterprise Architecture | Ted Simpson "With the increasing commoditization of IT (especially as many services move into the cloud), lines of business are increasingly empowered to own their own use of technology without the help of IT." - Ted Simpson (tags: enterprisearchitecture entarch) New WebLogic Server Page on Oracle Technology Network Updated with new content, community features, more. Take a look! (tags: WebLogic oraccle otn) Oracle...