Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Maybe you noticed... Over the last several days a busload of community bloggers have written about the new ADF Academy, a free, multimedia resource offering a ton of great content for those interested in learning about developing mobile applications. Free Course on ADF Mobile by Oracle ACE Director Bex Huff ADF Academy launched- interactive, entertaining and educational by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema ADF Mobile: Oracle eCourse available by Oracle ACE Luc Bors New ADF...

On June 1, 2012 the OTNArchBeat Facebook Page had 521 fans. As of today that page now has 2,479 fans, an increase of over 375%. Thanks to all those people who follow the page for making that happen! Based on the interest of those fans, here are the top ten most popular posts for the week of May 26, 2013 to June 1, 2013. Connected Architecture for the Creative Economy"Solutions for the Creative Economy are not cloud- or mobile-based solutions, or SOA-based solutions, and so on,"...

A little blue bird told me these are the top ten most popular items shared via @OTNArchBeat for the month of May 2013. RT @glassfish: JDBC/Form-Based Authentication in GlassFish: Security, specifically authentication and authorization...May 14, 2013 at 03:52 PM RT @CaryMillsap: #Performance is not an attribute of a system; it is an attribute of each individual experience with that system. @MethodRMay 14, 2013 at 02:27 PM Complete State of SOA podcast now available w/...

At last count 2,400 people now follow the OTN ArchBeat Facebook page to stay connected to the latest content from community members. Here's the list of the Top 10 most popular items for the week of May 19-25, 2013. Integrating Oracle eBS Responsibility Profiles and Oracle BI 11g Application Roles"Instead of making a Oracle BI Application Role for each Oracle eBS Responsibility you would like to use in Oracle BI, make use of an Oracle eBS Profile Option," suggests Daan...

Yesterday I recorded an OTN ArchBeat podcast with Oracle ACE Directors Ron Batra, Basheer Khan, and Cary Millsap. The conversation, based on a topic suggested by Ron, focused on the shifting responsibilities among IT roles in the face of the emergence of DevOps and Cloud computing. At one point in the conversation Nicholas Carr's infamous 2003 Harvard Business Review article "IT Doesn't Matter" came up. That article claimed that IT was becoming ever more commodified, a claim...

Busy? So are Guido Schmutz and Ronald van Luttikhuizen. Guido, an Oracle ACE Director, is Technology Manager for SOA and Emerging Trends at Trivadis. Ronald, also an Oracle ACE Director, is is Managing Partner and Architect at Vennster. But the fun doesn't stop there. Guido and Ronald pack their already strained schedules with writing projects and speaking engagements. For instance, Guido is part of the team of experts behind Industrial SOA, a series of articles that just...

2,298 people now follow the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page to stay connected with the latest technical content created by and for members of the Oracle Technology Network IT architect community. Here's the list of the top 10 most popular items for the week of May 12-18, 2013. Tom Kyte Keynote at GLOC 2013 A photo of Tom Kyte giving his keynote presentation at the Great Lakes Oracle Conference (neooug) at Cleveland State University. Introduction to the BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 – Product...

The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast features a panel of Oracle ADF Mobile experts in a discussion about mobile architectures. The Panelists Andrejus Baranovskis Oracle ACE Director and Independent Oracle Consultant with Red Samurai Consulting, where he specializes in Oracle Fusion Middleware and SOA, and frequently blogs on Oracle ADF Mobile. Andrejus is based in Lithuania. Luc Bors Oracle ADF expertise Lead and technical specialist/architect at AMIS. Luc frequently writes about...

With Oracle OpenWorld 2013 in San Francisco on the horizon you may have already seen some mention of the Oracle Excellence Awards. But do you know what these awards are all about? The Oracle Excellence Awards recognize the achievements of members of the Oracle community in eleven award categories across the spectrum of roles involved in making things happen in enterprise IT. Several categories will be of particular interest to Oracle Technology Network members. These include: Da...