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2,688 people now follow OTN ArchBeat on Facebook. Here are the Top 10 items they've had an eye on for the week of June 9-15, 2013. Customization Lifecycle Management: Principles and Recommendations Explained | Richard Bingham"Whilst the desire for tailored application products will forever remain strong, and the urgency is pushed on to developers to deliver them," says Richard Bingham, "there needs to be diligence from the outset to ensure the resulting solutions do not end...

The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast represents something of an experiment in that the discussion topic and the panelists were selected by a community member, rather than by me. That community member is Oracle ACE Director Ron Batra, director of product development, product management, and cloud computing at AT&T. Ron wanted to explore the effect DevOps, cloud computing and other trends are having on established IT roles and responsibilities. Here's how he frames the discussion: “Whe...

2,602 people now follow OTN Archbeat on Facebook. The top 10 most popular items shared on that page last week are listed below. ADF Academy launched - interactive, entertaining and educational | Lucas Jellema"I was very pleasantly surprised," says Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema of the new ADF Academy, which he describes as "a multi-media experience that uses every trick in the book – or every option for interaction, illustration, explanation and demonstration I could think...

This is a quick reminder that the discussion forums at forums.oracle.com will be offline for a few hours starting at 9pm PT today and then read-only through the weekend while we migrate our content to the new community space. Please come take a look on Monday! forums.oracle.com

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...