Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

The Top 10 tweets from @OTNArchBeat for the last seven days (April 29 - May 5, 2014). Video: #APEX Development and Security - Interview with @sspendol Apr 30, 2014 at 11:38 AM The OTNArchBeat Daily is out! Stories via @acolvin @Greencognito May 01, 2014 at 01:48 PM Video: Using #Netbeans with Oracle #Weblogic | @MyFear Apr 30, 2014 at 09:20 AM Integrating back-end services with #WebCenter Sites using #MVC framework | @dolfdijkstra May 05, 2014 at 10:23 AM Flow-based mapping in...

Among the 5,085 fans of the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page these ten items were the most popular over the last seven days (April 25 - May 1, 2014). Fusion Applications Lifecycle – the Big PictureThis article by the Fusion Middleware A-Team summarizes lifecycle topics related to key phases of Oracle Fusion Applications implementation and maintenance, highlighting existing options, tools and documentation. The purpose is to provide a clear and concise overview along with pointers...

Architects weigh in on what makes their jobs cool. By Bob Rhubart May/June 2014 In past issues of Oracle Magazine, this column has devoted a lot of attention to how to become an architect and has shared the insight and expertise of working architects as they discuss how they have developed and sharpened the various skills necessary to thrive in that role. But this column has never addressed one simple, straightforward question: Why would anyone want to be an architect? The...

Scott Spendolini is the executive director of Enkitec, an Oracle ACE Director, a Certified Oracle Application Express developer, the author of Expert Oracle Application Express Security (Apress), and yet he still has enough energy to present two sessions at the Great Lakes Oracle Conference, May 12-14, 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio. In this interview Scott offers a quick preview of those sessions, and looks ahead to his presentations at Kscope 2014 in Seattle, June 22-26, 2014. Conne...

Oracle ACE Director and Java Champion Markus Eisele is a prolific blogger and has written technical articles for many publications, but has never written an article for OTN -- until now. That article, Using Oracle WebLogic 12c with NetBeans IDE, walks you through installing and configuring all the necessary components, and helps you get started on a simple Hello World project. In this interview Markus shares some background on the article and talks about some of the tech...

Steven Feuerstein is an architect with Oracle's database tools team, the author of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, now in it's sixth edition from O'Reilly Media, and he's a keynote speaker at the Great Lakes Oracle Conference, May 12-14, 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio. In this interview Steven talks about his keynote presentation, Coding Therapy for Software Developers aka How Does This Code Make You Feel?, why it's ok to say "I don't know," and how to avoid becoming eagle poop. Click here ...

Oracle ACE Director Cameron Lackpour is an Oracle EPM Consultant, and a director on the board of the Oracle Development Tools User Group. As if that doesn’t keep him busy enough, Cameron is presenting two sessions at the Great Lakes Oracle Conference, May 12-14, 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio. In this interview Cameron talks about his "Script or Die" session about good scripting practices and techniques to automate Oracle Essbase administration tasks, and about "A - Z of...

The Top 10 tweets from @OTNArchBeat for the last seven days (April 22-28, 2014). Software architecture: Five things every developer should know | Simon Brown Apr 23, 2014 at 09:51 AM RT @glassfish: Reminder : Virtual Developer Days - Java 2014 Apr 24, 2014 at 08:54 AM Podcast: #SOA and #Cloud - Where's This Relationship Going? w/ @hajonormann @gschmutz @soacommunity Apr 24, 2014 at 08:23 AM Architects take note: "Simple Is The New Cool," says @FTeter Apr 22, 2014 at 09:24 AM Fusion...

Oracle ACE Director and Pythian CTO Alex Gorbachev is one of dozens of speakers who will participate in the 2014 Great Lakes Oracle Conference (GLOC), May 12-14 in Cleveland, Ohio. On Monday May 12 Alex will conduct a special workshop, "From Relational to Hadoop – Migrating Your Data Pipeline," from 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm. Then on Wednesday May 14, Alex will present "Benchmarking Oracle I/O Performance with ORION, from 2:15pm - 3:15pm. In this video interview Alex offers a quick...