Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Chickens don't tweet. They cluck. That's why there are no chickens among the 3,103 tweeters following @OTNArchBeat. Among that chicken-free group of tweeters, the following ten tweets ruled the roost over the last seven days, September 2-8, 2014. Video: 2 Minute Tech Tip: Building Responsive #WebCenter Portals | @JayJayZheng Sep 2, 2014 at 08:31 AM Podcast: 5x12 on 12c - User Forum Mini-Sessions at OOW14 @DebraLilley @JLOracle @kashifmanzoor Sep 8, 2014 at 09:22 AM One-Way...

There is a standing invitation for community members to step in as guest host/producer of the OTN ArchBeat Podcast. The guest producer gets to pick the topic for discussion, and the panelists who will do the discussing. The guest producer for the latest program was Oracle ACE Director Debra Lilley. The topic Debra chose for this discussion is an interesting event that will take place as part of the Oracle Users Forum at Oracle OpenWorld on Sunday September 28, 2014. This event...

Among the 5,352 thoroughly modern fans of the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page , these 10 posts were the most popular over the last seven days, August 29 - September 4, 2014. Top 5 Oracle Mobile Application Foundation (MAF) Videos Looking for quick technical tips on how you can use the Oracle Mobile Application Framework to develop enterprise mobile applications? The Oracle Mobile Foundation YouTube channel offers 40+ videos. Click the link for a list of the Top 5 most popular. Behold...

The Oracle Mobile Platform YouTube channel launched about two months ago, and now offers more than forty videos focused on technical information about how you can use components in the mobile platform, including Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF). Most of the videos are under 10 minutes, offering a quick and easy source of technical information to help in your efforts to develop mobile applications for the enterprise. The videos in the channel are organized...

Gaze upon the Top 10 tweets from @OTNArchBeat for the last seven days, August 26 - September 1, 2014. Oracle Data Integrator: What is a Repository? | Brent Dayley #ODI #oracleuniversity Aug 27, 2014 at 11:21 AM Awesome ASO Essbase procedural calculation hack -- Part 3 | @CameronLackpour #calcman Aug 26, 2014 at 10:16 AM Video: @OTechMag summer edition highlights with @omebos #oracleace Aug 27, 2014 at 08:32 AM Upcoming Developer Presentations on Big Data and Hadoop for Oracle BI,...

Can you beat the clock and deliver a useful technical tip that in two minutes or less? That's the idea behind the 2 Minute Tech Tip, a new feature on the OTN ArchBeat YouTube Channel. The concept is simple: Participants have to beat the clock to deliver a useful technical tip in two minutes or less. If the tech tip exceeds the two-minute limit... well, watch the video below to see what happens. Thanks to Oracle ACE JayJay Zheng for volunteering to present the very first 2...

There is more to mobile than what you can hold in your hand. By Bob Rhubart September/October 2014 “Mobile will be more disruptive than the web and the PC.” So said a tweet from Forrester Research this past spring. Given the head-spinning rise in the popularity and use of smartphones and tablets in recent years, betting against that prediction is probably not the smartest thing you could do with your money. The mobile juggernaut, that great un–tethering that has freed people from...

Sneak a peek at this week's list of the Top 10 most popular updates from the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page from the last seven days, August 22-28, 2014. Video: OTech Mag Summer Edition Preview What's in the latest edition of OTech Magazine? Talk to the boss. That's just what happens in this OTN Archbeat video interview with OTech founder and editor Douwe Pieter van den Bos. Video: How "The Bieb" can learn to develop enterprise mobile applicationsIf you were the idol of millions...

Given the vagaries of the entertainment business it is not unlikely that Justin Bieber will wake up one day and wish he had learned how to develop mobile applications for the enterprise. While that skill might not turn you into paparazzi bait (maybe if you get really good at it), it certainly won't hurt your resumé. Lucky for you (and The Bieb, if he's interested) a new series of Oracle Mobile Development workshops is making its way to cities across the US through November 6,...