Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

This is not the first post on this blog about the importance of communication skills for architects, and it certainly won't be the last. But Steve Karam, writing on his Oracle Alchemist blog, has tossed a low, slow one over the plate, and I just have to take a swing. (Too early for baseball metaphors? Too bad -- I need me some springtime.) In his post, Karam writes about what he describes as the most important IT career book he has ever owned. As it turns out, it's not another...

What has six conferences in six cities across India and features presentations by thirteen experts in Oracle technologies? If your answer was OTN Yathra 2013, give yourself a round of applause. OTN Yathra 2013, organized by Oracle ACE Director Murali Vallath, begins in Delhi on Saturday, 16 February 2013, and then makes its way to Mumbai (Monday,18 Feb), Pune (Wednesday, 20 Feb), Bangalore (Friday, 22 Feb), Hyderabad (Monday, 25 Feb), and concludes in Chennai on...

Every day (well, five days a week) I scour the web looking for great examples of content created by and/or for members of the OTN architect community, which I then share via social media. In January I published 95 tweets with links to just such content. The list below features the Top 10 most popular @OTNArchBeat tweets for January 2013. New book: WebLogic Server 12c: Distinctive Recipes (Architecture, Development and Administration) by @FrankMunz Jan 17, 2013 Oracle Service...

Your clicks count! Here's the list of the Top 10 most popular items shared on the OTN ArchBeat Facebook page for the week of January 27 - February 2, 2013. JDBC Realm and Form Based Authentication with GlassFish 3.1.2.2 and Primefaces 3.4 | Markus EiseleOracle ACE Director Markus Eisele updates one of his most popular blog posts, a short tutorial about the JDBC Security Realm and form based Authentication on GlassFish with Primefaces. This revised has been adapted for...

Dr. Frank Munz, prolific blogger and 2011 winner of Oracle Magazine's Technologist of the Year award in the Cloud Architect category, has just published Oracle WebLogic 12c: Distinctive Recipes, a follow-up to is 2012 book, Middleware and Cloud Computing. Frank's traveling and speaking schedule is hectic, but I managed to catch him between trips for a conversation about his new book: Frank was also kind enough to provide a sample chapter from the book, Track Down a Memory Leak,...

Each week I scour the web for content created by and/or for members the OTN architect community, which I then share on the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page. Here's the list of the Top 10 most popular items for the week of January 20-26, 2013. Video: Building Performant ADF Business Components Applications |Jobinesh PurushothamanJobinesh Purushothaman, Principal Solutions Architect for Oracle ADF, shares "insight into the workings of ADF Business Components and how you can use...

Here's the list of the Top 10 items posted on the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page for the week of January 13-20, 2013. Architect Poll: What's Your Title? It has been my observation that among the participants at OTN Architect Day events only about 30% have titles or are in roles that include the word "architect." Does the same hold true for followers of this page? Let's find out. Does your role, title, or job description include the word "architect?" Automate WebLogic Installation...

If you spend any time on the Oracle Technology Network website or attend any event in which Oracle community members are involved you’ve probably read an article or blog post written by an Oracle ACE or Oracle ACE Director, attended a session by one, or at the very least seen these icons: If you've ever wondered what all that Oracle ACE stuff was all about, you’re in luck. This OTN ArchBeat Podcast series focuses on the Oracle ACE Program—what it is, and how you can...

Here's this week's list of the Top 10 most popular items shared on the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page for the week of January 6-12, 2013. TOGAF study help? There is an app for that! | Pat Shepherd Oracle Enterprise Architect Pat Shepherd hasn't had a chance to test out the Toolkit4Togaf app for iPhone, but it did catch his attention. And since it's free, you can check it out yourself. Podcast Show Notes: Oracle Cloud Update: 30 Days in the CloudRick Greenwald, Mike Lehmann, and Dom...