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This week's list of the Top 10 tweets from @OTNArchBeat is completely bacon-free. Get a taste! OTN Architect Community Newsletter - August Edition #Java #Coherence #WebLogic #Mobile and much more. Aug 21, 2014 at 04:58 PM Mobile Apps for Oracle E-Business Suite | Steven Chan Aug 25, 2014 at 08:50 AM A Dozen Things to Know about Oracle SOA Suite 12c. Aug 22, 2014 at 08:27 AM Podcast: Redefining Information Management Architecture w/ @andrewjohnbond @stewartbryson @markrittmanAug...

As hot as molten rock? Not quite. But among the 5,313 fans of the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page these Top 10 items were the hottest over the past seven days, August 15-21, 2014. Oracle BPM 12c Gateways (Part 1 of 5): Exclusive Gateway | Antonis Antoniou Oracle ACE Associate Antonis Antoniou begins a five-part series with a look at In the gateway control flow components in Oracle BPM and how they can be used to process flow. Slicing the EDG: Different SOA Domain Configurations |...

Nothing in IT stands still, and this is certainly true of business intelligence and information management. Big Data has certainly had an impact, as have Hadoop and other technologies. That evolution was the catalyst for the collaborative effort behind a new Information Management Reference Architecture. The latest OTN ArchBeat series features a conversation with Andrew Bond, Stewart Bryson, and Mark Rittman, key players in that collaboration. These three gentlemen know each...

"Architecture is the decisions that you wish you could get right early in a project." -- Ralph E. Johnson Unless you can see into the future, getting those decisions right comes down to a collection of hard choices. But the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University has turned those hard choices into a game. Literally. According to the SEI website: The Hard Choices game is a simulation of the software development cycle meant to communicate the concepts...

Man in gray hat: "You know, more than three thousand people follow @OTNArchBeat on Twitter. I wonder which tweets were the most popular over the last seven days." Man in brown hat: "Shut up! I think I see a UFO!" Man in gray hat: "That's OK. I'll just read this blog post." RT @java: "Programmers are creative people and typically delight in contriving clever ways to solve problems." -Casimir Saternos in @OracleJavaMag Aug 18, 2014 at 12:54 PM The Offer Still Stands: Produce your own...

5,307 people pay attention to the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page. Here are the Top 10 posts from that page for the last seven days, August 8-14, 2014. Podcast: ODTUG Kscope 2014: Anatomy of a User Conference - Part 3There is more to a great user conference than a shared interest in Oracle products. In the final segment of this 3-part OTN ArchBeat Podcast panelists Danny Bryant , Chet "ORACLENERD" Justice, Cameron Lackpour, Debra Lilley, and Mike Riley discuss the nature...

Among the 91 videos available on the OTN ArchBeat YouTube Channel, the following Top 10 were the most-viewed for the past 30 days. Things to Keep In Memory About Oracle Database In-Memory | Tom Kyte What do you know about Oracle Database In-Memory? Tom Kyte recaps his Great Lakes Oracle Conference keynote with a couple of key points to keep in your own memory. Best Practices in Oracle ADF Development | Frank NimphiusIn this video Frank Nimphius summarizes best practices for...

The 3,030 people following @OTNArchBeat are spread all over the galaxy! Over the past seven days the following Top 10 Tweets drew the most attention: Top 10 OTN Business Intelligence Articles >> content from @markrittman @kevinmcginley @artofbi et al Aug 6, 2014 at 12:10 PM RT @lucasjellema: This article describes how to get Chat going from SOA Suite 12c - using XMPP driver & setting up chat accounts Aug 6, 2014 at 01:33 PM Oracle Mobile Computing: The latest articles, podcasts,...

Jessica Keyes is the president of New Art Technologies, an instructor at Liverpool University, and the the author of 24 books and more than 200 articles. Her latest book is The CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions, from CRC Press. In this interview Jessica talks about her book and about why input from users and developers is essential to CIOs who want to avoid being escorted out of the building by security guards. After you watch the interview, read The CIO's Guide to...