Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

Frank Nimphius: Running ADF Faces applications with IE 9 in IE 8 compatibility mode Frank says: "Developers who don't want to wait for the next JDeveloper 11g patch set to support IE 9, or developers who don't want to upgrade their application infrastructure to a new version of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle JDeveloper 11g, however may consider running Internet Explorer 9 in IE8 or E7 compatibility or emulation mode." (tags: oracle ie9 ie8 jdeveloper adf) Video: Alex...

The Common Reference Architecture (CORA) model, Part I Article by Oracle ACE Director Leon Smiers and Theo Elzinga, as published in Via Nova Architectura. (tags: oracle oracleace enterprisearchitecture entarch CORA) Lewis Cunningham: Long Time No Hear Oracle ACE Director Lewis Cunningham describes a new project. (tags: oracle oracleace) René van Wijk: Messaging in WebLogic Server: Best Practices René van Wijk presents "some best practices concerning setting-up a WebLogic JMS provider." (ta...