Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

As of this moment there are 49 videos on the Oracle Technology Network YouTube Channel, featuring conversations with the people who build Oracle technologies and the people who use those technologies. Here's the current list of the Top 10 most popular OTN videos. Dr. Frank Munz: Distinctive Recipes for Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Dr. Frank Munz, the author of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Distinctive Recipes, talks about his new book, the companion series of videos, and upcoming...

Here's the list of Top 10 most popular items shared with the community via the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page for the week of February 3-9, 2013. New SOA White Papers | Jürgen Kress Jürgen Kress's post includes links to Creating an SOA Roadmap, A Framework for SOA Governance, and Determining ROI of SOA through Reuse," three recent white papers from members of Oracle's Global Enterprise Architecture Program. These papers are part of the IT Strategies from Oracle library, an...

At the turn of the new year one is exposed to predictions by analysts and industry journalists about the IT topics and trends that will dominate in the year ahead. That coverage has it's place, but does it reflect what's happening in the real world, among real architects? Enterprise IT is surely changing, but what trends or factors will have the greatest impact where the rubber meets the road? This program brings together a panel of working IT professionals to talk about the...

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...