Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

IT needs a return to the art of architecture |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld Architecture, according to David Linthicum, "is about thinking through the strategy and the approach to IT and then moving to the desired end state holistically. There are many layers, including architecture at the micro-domain or project instance, and architecture at the macro-domain or enterprise-wide. The trick is to define the macro-domain first, then move toward the...

Why the wrong SOA architects were fired |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld David Linthicum thinks that "many who are good with SOA are not as good with people and easy targets for outplacement. Therefore, many SOA teams are left much less productive than they were before the 'nerd' was shown the door. " (tags: soa communication architects layoffs) HOW TO: Survive a Social Media Revolt "It often stuns me," says Muhammad Saleem, "to see how poor social media entrepreneurs...

MediaPost Publications Study: Company Blogs Lead Social Media Options 01/30/2009 Mark Walsh of OnlineMedia Daily reports on a new study that finds 'blogging to the most important lead-generation source among social media options.' (tags: socialmedia blogging, marketing,) Usable Apps Blog John Cartan on human-computer interaction: "Input methods are becoming more sophisticated and flexible (multi-touch, touchless, tactile, audio). At the same time, output methods are becoming...

Over the last week or so the Oracle blogosphere has been buzzing about SOA guru Thomas Erl's new book, SOA Design Patterns, and with good reason. A number of Oracle community bloggers -- more than a few Oracle ACEs among them -- had a hand in authoring many of the patterns in the book. You'll find information about those patterns at SOAPatterns.org. Many thanks and a tip of the Archbeat hat to Thomas Erl and the kind folks at Prentice Hall Professional for providing the...

Tech Spectator: What Good are Tech User Groups? Jeff Erickson's video interview with Ronan Miles of the UK Oracle User Group (tags: oracle UKOUG otn,) It's all architecture! |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld David Linthicum on SOA and Cloud: "SOA is an architectural pattern, and cloud computing is an instance of an architecture, private or not. It's all architecture, nothing really changes other than where and how we deploy services, processes, and...

No, BACSIG is not how Commissioner Gordon summons Batman. It's the Bay Area Coherence Special Interest Group, and it's holding its February meeting on Thursday 2/19/09 at Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores, CA. Scheduled speakers for the event include Cameron Purdy and NetSuite's Ted Rice. Come for the pizza, stay for the insight, expertise, and peer interaction. Date: Thursday - February 19, 2009 Time: 5:30pm PT for 5:45pm start Where: Oracle Conference Center 350 Oracle Parkway Room TBD...

In the first Architect Roundtable podcast, Eddie Awad and Jeff Davies talked, among other topics, about ways software architects might take advantage of Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 tools.  Just this morning I saw James McGovern's post, 2009 Resolutions for Enterprise Architects. What was the number one item on Mr. McGovern's list? Start building an alumni network. In case you haven't been paying attention, Indian outsourcing firms are now the biggest risk. We caught Satyam lying...

If you enjoyed the two-part SOA and BPM: Understanding the Connection podcast last month (part one, part two), you'll want to check out a new webinar the folks behind Oracle's BPM platform are presenting this Friday, 1/30/09. Get more info on: Achieve Significant Return-on-Investment and Cost Reduction With Oracle SOA and BPM Technorati Tags: otn, oracle, soa, bpm, webinar

Thanks to community input and collaboration on the Architect Roundtable group on Oracle Mix, the first of an ongoing series of Architect Roundtable podcasts is now available. The first program in the series is part one of my two-part discussion with Oracle ACE Eddie Awad and Oracle Sr. Prinicipal Product Manager and author Jeff Davies. The topic is architects and communication, a discussion that grew out of posts on Eddie and Jeff's respective blogs. Part two of that...