Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Leveraging Governance to Sustain Enterprise Architecture Efforts | Eric StephensSOA, Cloud computing, Big Data, Mobile computing, BOYD and other factors are already rearranging the enterprise IT landscape in much the same way Godzilla rearranges Tokyo. The potential for these technologies is incredible. But with each new technological innovation, "it is critical to reevaluate relevant EA governance," says Eric Stephens. "Otherwise, the architectural fragmentation that exists...

Free OTN Architect Day - Boston - Sept 12 Oracle Technology Network Architect Day is coming to Boston, September 12, 2012. The event will be held at the Boston Marriott Burlington (One Burlington Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01803), and features a full day of sessions with technical experts, along with plenty of opportunity to interact with your peers. The event is free, but seating is limited, so register now. Cloud and business transformation: this time, it's different | ZDNet"T...

The Top 10 most popular items shared via my social networks for the week of July 29 - August 4, 2012. Oracle Announces the Oracle Music Festival San Francisco 2012The roster of artists for the Oracle Music Festival at this year's Oracle Open World in San Francisco includes Macy Gray, Joss Stone, The English Beat, The 500s, American Steel, Blues Mix, Dirty Ghosts, The Dodos, Red Meat, Young Prisms, DJ Don Lynch, DJ Josh One, DJ Mei Lwun, DJ Panic City and DJ Zaq -- and that's...

Oracle Public Cloud Java Service with NetBeans in Early Access | Markus Eisele Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele got to take the Oracle Java Cloud Service for a test drive. Now that he's had a chance to kick the tires he shares in insight in this detailed post. ADF BC Passivation/Activation and SQL Execution Tuning | Andrejus Baranovskis"There is an added cost to passivation/activation - additional SQL execution," says Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis. "During an...

Update: Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse What's new in OEPE 12c (12.1.1.1.0)? Check it out: Eclipse Juno Support, Oracle ADF Bindings and Data Control Tools, Web Service Security Support, and WebLogic Server 12c Tools. Does that work for you? Oracle Business Intelligence EE SampleApp v207 (11.1.1.6.2 BP1) Available on OTNAs reported by Abhinav Agarwal, the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition app, "has been updated, and is now available as a downloadable Virtual...

The Top 10 most-viewed items shared via my social networks for July 2012. The first IT Architecture Certification from Oracle University: Oracle IT Architecture Release 3 Essentials The first Oracle IT Architecture certification, Oracle IT Architecture Release 3 Essentials, is now in general availability from Oracle University. The certification covers the Oracle Reference Architecture material published under the IT Strategies from Oracle library and includes Oracle...

Help Design the New GlassFish T-shirt | The Aquarium If you're like me, you never, ever turn down a free t-shirt. But most of the shirts I get as conference swag end up as pajamas, or rags for polishing guitars. Only the coolest shirts make it out into the daylight on my back. I suspect that may be why Arun Gupta wants to give you a shot at producing the next GlassFish t-shirt. Get the details in this post from The Aquarium blog, and make sure you get your submission in...

White Paper: The Oracle Identity Management Platform: Identity Services at Internet Scale "In the context of a narrow scope, a point [IdM] solution may seem simpler, quicker, and cheaper," says Mike Neuenschwander. "But over time, the reactive approach proves economically and architecturally unsustainable." Book Review: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial What does Christian Berg think of the newly published book, Oracle Business...

The Top 10 items shared via my social networks for the week of July 22-28, 2012. Automation of Weblogic 11g Maven Plugin installation | Dmitry Nefedkin After repeating the process of manually installing the Oracle Weblogic Plugin for Apache Maven once too often, Dmitry Nefedkin had enough and automated the process. Get the how-to info in this blog post. Refreshing ADF Page Template from ADF Fragment Template | Andrejus BaranovskisAnother detailed technical how-to post from...