Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Back in May, Oracle ACE Director Mike van Alst, an independent architect based in the Netherlands, posted some interesting observations on the clash between architecture and agility on his blog: All and good to go Agile, but if you're stuck in an analysis-paralysis situation with your architecture, you will not reap the benefits that Agile brings. You might get away with ignoring the architecting issue - at least for the short term - but it will catch up with you in due...

Rick Ramsey: Finding It Difficult To Keep Up? OTN's Rick "BigAdmin" Ramsey assembled this at-a-glance guide to social media channels you can use to  follow what's going on in the Architect, Database Administrator/Developer, Java Developer, and Systems Administrator/Developer communities now under the Oracle Technology Network's big tent. (tags: socialmedia oracle otn archtiect developer sysadmin java database) Anthony Shorten: Oracle Utilities Application Framework Caching Overview Antho...

@myfear: Enterprise Software Development with Java: JRockit Mission Control Suite and WebLogic Server Oracle AVE Director Markus Eisele's short how-to  walks you through the most basic features and introduces some (unsupported) experimental plugins. (tags: otn java oracle oracleace weblogic) @thereallewisc: ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 - Why Guess When You Can Know? "If you hang around Kaleidoscope long enough (by which I mean attend the conferences) you will get to meet some of the...

Discoverer 11g (11.1.1.3) Certified with E-Business Suite (Oracle E-Business Suite Technology) (tags: ping.fm oracle businessintelligence) Live Webcast: Introducing Oracle Identity Management 11g - July 21 Presentation by Amit Jasuja, VP Identity Management and Security Products, Oracle. Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET. (tags: oracle otn security webcast)

#OTNVDD: Virtual Developer Day: Oracle Tuxedo Network with peers and Oracle Tuxedo architects and developers from North America, Europe and Asia.  Schedule and agenda Information on upcoming Virtual Conference Sessions and Virtual Labs.  (tags: oracle otn tuxedo events) Geertjan's Blog: Spotting the MVC Pattern in the NetBeans Platform "Why MVC, in particular?" asks Geerjan. "Because that's a pattern very familiar to (Java) programmers and it is a pattern used throughout the...

Darryl Gove: The solution is multicore "There is great allure to using threads on a multicore processor to deliver many times the performance of a single core processor.," says Gove. "And this is the crux of the matter. Advances in computer languages haven't 'solved' this problem for us. It can still be hard, for some problems, to write parallel programs that are both functionally correct and scale well." (tags: sun multicore processors applications architecture) @soatoday: Is...

This week’s ArchBeat Podcast concludes the three-part discussion of  Oracle Coherence and data grid technology. Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 The panelists for this discussion are: Cameron Purdy, VP of Development, OracleBlog | Twitter | LinkedIn | Oracle Mix Aleksandar Seovic, founder and managing director at S4HC Inc.Blog| Twitter | LinkedIn | Oracle Mix | Oracle ACE Profile (Aleks is also the author of  Oracle Coherence 3.5 from Packt Publishing.) John...

Coherence Special Interest Group Meeting - 15 Jul 2010 - Redwood Shores, CA 5:30pm - 8:00pm PT, Oracle Conference Center, 350 Oracle Parkway, Room 203, Redwood Shores, CA . Presentations by Naresh Revanuru & Ballav Bihani (Oracle) and by Oracle ACE Director Aleksandar Seovic. Free pizza! (tags: oracle otn coherence sig event) Atul Kuma: Oracle Identity Manager (Thor Xellerate) Architecture Atul Kumar breaks Oracle Identity Manager's architecture out into its various layers.  (tags: sec...

Oracle BI Technology Stack Karthic Balasubramani does a nice job of breaking out the products in the Oracle Business Intelligence stack. (tags: oracle otn businessintelligence) OraJourn: Concepts Guide: 10/27 - Application Architecture Charles "OraJourn" Schultz's critique of the Oracle Database Concepts 10g Release 2 documentation. (tags: oracle otn database) @alexgorbachev: ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010: Best Practices "Best practices should be forbidden or rather renamed to blue-prints,"...