Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

Guenadi Jilevski: Using Oracle VM VirtualBox for building two node Oracle RAC 11gR2 cluster based on Solaris 10 x86-64 Guenadi Jilevski offers a look at how to use some Oracle VirtualBox features to build two node Oracle 11gR RAC system on Solaris 10 x86-64. Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0.8 Released! (Oracle's Virtualization Blog) Fat Bloke spreads the news. Niall Commiskey: Basic JMS Clustering with Weblogic 11g - Uniform distributed destinationCommiskey describes a simple WLS...

Cindy McMullen: Using the CMIS Provider to integrate WebCenter Content Several examples from Cindy McMullen. Eric Stephens: Enterprise Climatologist? "[Enterprise Architects] need to be strategic in their thinking and help clients shape their future, not solely react to enterprise events." - Eric Stephens For Oracle every revolution is an evolution - CIOL Interviews Thomas KurianThomas Kurian, executive vice president of Oracle Product Development, shares the story of Oracle's...