Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Top clicks among my picks... The Top 10 tweets from @OTNArchBeat for the last seven days. Your #SOA Governance Homework for the Week >> Interview with @Luisw19, article by @manuelrosa et al Jan 22, 2014 at 01:18 PM RT @javanetbuzz: Featured On #JavaNet: @robilad: Food For Tests: JDK 7u60 Build b03 & JDK 8 Build b124 Jan 23, 2014 at 10:12 AM The OTNArchBeat Daily is out! Stories via @TanelPoder @jonmead @oracle_em Jan 25, 2014 at 12:49 PM RT @CameronLackpour: 4th post on #orclepm...

In an interview with InfoQ's Amr Elssamadisy, education consultant and Culture Engine founder Steve Peha offers this comment about the failure of a large software development project he headed: We were so focused on tools and practice and process and methods, that we forgot about the people, we forgot about the culture. Peha goes on to explain that the project's stakeholders were quick to assume that nothing could be done to overcome the cultural issues that threatened the...

The Top 10 most popular updates from the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page from the last seven days. Photos from the OTN Lounge A dozen photos of people engaged in various activities in the OTN Lounge at OOW13. I meant to upload them right after OpenWorld, before they wandered into some dark corner of my hard drive, only to be found last week. Better late than never... Working with Oracle Security Token Service in an Architecture Involving WebLogic and OSB | Ronaldo FernandesRonaldo...

The technical articles you read on OTN don't just appear out of thin air. They're the result of time and effort invested by subject matter experts across the community. Are you such an expert? If you're interested in writing for OTN you'll find some general editorial guidelines here: How To Get Published by Oracle Technology Network. As OTN's architect community manager my editorial focus is primarily on content covering any of the products or technologies under the Oracle...

Starting next week the OTN ArchBeat Podcast will present a series of programs recorded during a virtual roundtable discussion featuring four experts on SOA Governance. That roundtable included Manuel Rosa and André de Oliveira Sampaio, co-authors of the article SOA Governance Through Enterprise Architecture (now available on OTN), and the gentlemen you see in the videos below. Oracle ACE Luis Weir is senior Oracle solution director (EMEA & APAC) for HCL AXON and the co-author...

The Top 10 tweets from @OTNArchBeat for the last seven days. RT @java: Top Java Technical Articles of 2013 @oracleotn Jan 16, 2014 at 11:06 AM RT @brunoborges: I've found 95 JUGs on Twitter. Is your JUG on Twitter? Let me know. I'm planning to build something with this. Jan 15, 2014 at 12:18 PM Capturing Business Events for Playback through Oracle Event Processing Platform | @jricardoferreir Jan 20, 2014 at 09:30 AM Podcast: Finding a Shorter Path to #SOA - Part 2 w/...

I pick 'em, you click 'em. Hear are the Top 10 most popular community updates from the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page from the last seven days (January 10-16, 2014). Service Oriented Architecture: New OTN Technical Articles Did you miss these four new OTN technical articles covering Service Oriented Architecture? No worries! Links and information in the latest post on the ArchBeat blog. Sample Chapter: Migrating to the Cloud: Methodology and Design This sample chapter from Migrating...

Science fiction fans of a certain age will remember various depictions of small, hand-held communication and computation devices, including Dick Tracy's wrist-radio, Star Trek tricorders, and other examples too numerous to mention. While silver jumpsuits and flying cars have not yet materialized, today's mobile devices more than fulfill the promise of those scifi wonders. (Actually, silver jumpsuits came and went with several late-70s rock bands, and good riddance. I never...

There's no red carpet for this sort of thing, but just the same, here are the Top 5 most popular videos for the last 30 days on the OTN ArchBeat YouTube channel. What are you watching? Oracle SOA Suite Performance Tuning C2B2 consultant Matt Brasier, co-author of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook (2013, Packt Publishing) discusses performance tuning challenges and best practices. Integration with Fusion ApplicationsVladimir Ajvaz and Anil Passi, co-authors,...