Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

Aide-mémoire: Psychology of why reuse fails - courtesy of GeekAndPoke Kate Carruthers writes, "Within companies there is often little trust between departments and an unwillingness to rely upon things that other people have built." (tags: soa reuse) The Red Room - Oracle Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) GTMi Team Blog "SOA is all about making the business more adaptable to change. Why is this an issue? Because the processes and systems we have to support us are so rigid, so slow,...

Recent blog posts by David Chappell and Jürgen Kress include links to a number of SOA design patterns authored by members of the greater Oracle community, including a number of ACEs. These patterns are included in SOA guru Thomas Erl's new book, the aptly titled SOA Design Patterns. To save wear and tear on your mouse-clinking appendages, I've included links to those patterns below: Service Grid In Memory Fault Tolerant Collection In Memory Fault Tolerant Stateful Services Load...