Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

It takes a special kind of person to spend the entire work day hunched over a computer keyboard only to spend scant free time pounding that same keyboard to crank out an OTN technical article. So in order to recognize that effort on behalf of the Business Intelligence experts out there, here's a Top 10 list of the most popular OTN BI articles for the last 12 months. The list is based on unique page visits, and encompasses all articles still available in the /articles/bi directo...

There are many ways to absorb information. You can do direct cranial injection, or you can follow the example set by 3,021 people and follow @OTNArchBeat on Twitter. Here at the Top 10 posts from that feed for the last seven days, July 29 - August 4, 2014. RT @odtug: #ODTUG Mobile Day #orclapex #orclbi #orcladf #OrclDev 4 communities coming together to discuss mobile! Aug 1, 2014 at 01:52 PM Podcast: Anatomy of #kscope14 w/ @dbcapoeira @oraclenerd @CameronLackpour...

Among the 5,265 followers of the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page -- a community that could possibly include cycloptic star creatures from a distant planet -- these are the top 10 most popular posts for the last seven days, July 25-31, 2014. Rapid creation of Virtual Machine(s) for SOA Suite 12.1.3 server run time environment - leveraging Vagrant, Puppet and Biemond | Lucas JellemaOracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema extends his series on using Vagrant and Puppet for the automated...

The idea for this three-part OTN Archbeat Podcast series started out as a wrap-up of ODTUG Kscope 2014, featuring a panel comprised of people behind the event -- all members of the Oracle ACE Program. As you'll hear, the conversation goes well beyond a wrap-up to include a discussion about the importance of user groups and user group-sponsored conferences, and the critical importance of community in general. Considering the personalities of the panelists, that conversation...

Beyond mobility, the next generation of devices will expand our personal computing options with new form factors and input methods that will change the way we interact with and think about technology. Simply put, computers and computing will become increasingly transparent...Going forward, your personal computing experience will not be dominated by the computer. From Death of the PC: Time to Kiss Your Computer Goodbye? by Forbes.com contributor Raj Sabhlok One very significant...

Among the 2,998 people who follow @OTNArchBeat these ten tweets were the most popular for over the last seven days, July 22-28, 2014. RT @forrester: As #bigdata explodes, so do old ways of doing business. @PracticingEA explains why a reset is necessary. #forrbigdata Jul 23, 2014 at 02:50 PM RT @brunoborges: This is a robot of the Home League at #RoboCup2014 and it is using @Java for state machine. Cool!! Jul 23, 2014 at 02:52 PM Why Oracle Big Data #SQL Potentially Solves a Big...

,5,250 people now follow the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page. Listed below are the Top 10 items shared on that page for the last seven days (July 18-24, 2014). You've Got Mail: Inbound Email Processing in WLS/OSB integration scenarios | Sven Bernhardt Sven Bernhardt explains how to combine the strengths of JEE and OSB to create "a flexible, maintainable and standard-based way to integrate inbound email processing." ODI 12.1.3: New Model and Topology Objects Wizard | Julien TestutDown...

Among the 5,227 fans of the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page these are the top 10 most popular posts from the last seven days, July 4-10, 2014. Creating SOA Applications using Maven | Mark Nelson Pay attention! Redstack blogger and FMW A-Team architect Mark Nelson shows you how to create a SOA/BPM application from a Maven archetype. SOA Suite 12c: Obtaining composite resources; WSDLs, XSDs and WADLs | Martin SmeetsIn SOA Suite 12c and 11g there are several options to obtain composite...

Service-oriented architecture has been a hot topic of late given the recent release Oracle SOA Suite 12.1.3 and related products. Against that backdrop I thought it would be interesting to do a little data diving to see which OTN technical articles on SOA were the most popular over the last 30 days. The criteria were basic: any article currently available in the OTN SOA articles directory was eligible, and the list is based on total unique visits between June 11, 2014 and July...