Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Don't panic! Even if you're not one of the 3,389 people who follow @OTNArchBeat, you can still keep up with what's happening with this list of the Top 10 tweets for the last seven days, December 9-15, 2014. RT @debralilley: Please retweet so I can win #project photo prize at #ukoug_apps14 #fb Dec 9, 2014 at 03:57 PM Top 10 Most Popular OTN #SOA Articles in 2014 >> Congrats to the authors. Dec 10, 2014 at 11:51 AM RT @monty_odtug: #orclapex Community: Please signup for #kscope15...

Too much coffee keeping you up at night? Or is it something else? Identity Management and Security are consistently hot topics across the OTN community. Given the frequency of news reports of hacker attacks like the recent assault on Sony Pictures, it's easy to understand why. So, as part of my ongoing series of posts looking back on some of the OTN content that has attracted the most eyeballs in 2014, here's a list of the year's Top 10 Identity and Security articles. If you...

The man in the photo wants to keep his identity a secret because he is embarrassed about not being one of the 6,171 fans of the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page. Among those fans, the following posts were the Top 10 most popular over the last seven days, December 5-11, 2014. Top 10 ArchBeat Podcasts for 2014The OTN ArchBeat Podcast is the second most popular Oracle podcast over the past 6 months. Want to know why? Here are the Top 10 most popular programs from that podcast for...

Launched in March 2009, the OTN ArchBeat Podcast has produced 283 individual programs. Each podcast starts as a 30 minute panel discussion (give or take a few minutes) featuring anywhere from two to six panelists, drawn from my ever-growing list of what I call "the usual suspects." Those 30-minute programs are then cut into roughly 10-minute segments. To date, those 283 individual segments have been downloaded nearly 300,000 times. The recording, editing, and overall...

Want to know what OTN content attracted the most eyeballs in 2014? This is the first of a series of year-end posts I will publish that highlight some of the most popular OTN content for 2014. For this post, I did a little data diving to come up with a list of the Top 10 most popular technical articles covering Service Oriented Architecture. Congratulations to all of the authors! Keep up the good work. Enterprise Service Bus [July 2013]by Jürgen Kress, Berthold Maier, Hajo...

Here they are: the Top 10 tweets from @OTNArchBeat for the last seven days (December 2-8, 2014). If you're wondering why positions #1 and #2 are occupied by the same message, allow me to elucidate. Note that while the messages are the same, the #1 tweet was posted at 9pm EST on Dec 5, while the #2 tweet was posted at 9am EST on Dec 4. So, same message, different tweets, and different audiences -- that is, unless some people are spending way too much time on Twitter. Podcast...

The latest OTN ArchBeat series is a 3-part discussion of the various options for customizing the Oracle E-Business Suite user experience. The topic was suggested, and panel members selected, by Oracle ACE Monty Latiolais, who took on the guest producer role for this series. Here's how Monty pitched the idea to the panelists: "The discussion [centers] around the different options EBS customers have to customize and tailor the EBS user experience. Some customers prefer...

Five of the Facebook posts in this week's Top 10 list are videos. Does that signal a trend among the 6,118 people who follow the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page? Who knows? Video: SOA Suite 12c High Level Overview | Oracle Learning LibraryThis video overview highlights features in the Oracle SOA Suite 12c release, including automated REST/SOAP conversions, cloud adapters to simplify on-premise to cloud integration, new SAP and JDE Adapters, Managed File Transfer (MFT) for...

Oracle ACE Director Sten Vesterli, author of Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development – Made Simple: Second Edition (Packt Publishing) shares a quick tip on using ADF libraries and building a solid foundation for ADF applications. Recorded under lousy lighting conditions at Oracle OpenWorld 2014.  Connect with Sten Vesterli Want more 2 Minute Tech Tips? Click here. Want to do your own 2 Minute Tech Tip? Contact me.