Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

More than 2,100 people now follow the OTN ArchBeat Facebook page. The list below reflects the Top 10 most popular items shared on that page for the week of April 21-27, 2013. Oracle BPM 11g Mobile Worklist with ADF Mobile | Andrejus Baranovski Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis shares the details behind a new Oracle ADF Mobile application he has developed. On the Integrity of Data | Lucas Jellema Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema shares a blog post that extends his recent...

Service Oriented Architecture may not get the attention it used to, but it's still alive and kicking -- and more important than ever. The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast program features a panel discussion on the State of Service Oriented Architecture. The panel for this conversation consists of four gentlemen who collectively represent exactly half of the team of experts behind Industrial SOA, a new series of articles available on OTN. The Panelists Middleware Expert Jurgen Kress w...

Here's this week's collection of click magnets, the Top 10 most popular items shared via the OTN ArchBeat Facebook page for the week of April 14-20, 2013. How to manage your WebLogic Servers? | WebLogic Partner Community EMEA A massive list of Oracle WebLogic resources, including Oracle Learning Library self-study courses and a whole bunch of YouTube video tutorials ADF Mobile and SDO: getting results | Blueberry CoderThis brief post from the "Blueberry Coder" explains how you...

Avoid extinction by aligning development and operations. By Bob RhubartMay/June 2013 What is DevOps? The answer depends on whom you ask—and a lot of people are asking. According to Google Trends, activity around DevOps went from near zero in early 2010 to a massive blizzard in early 2013 that shows no signs of slowing. In that time, the number of articles offering explanations of what DevOps is and why it matters has also risen. In broad strokes, DevOps represents the...

Two thousand people now follow the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page. These are the Top 10 most popular items shared on that page for the week of April 7-13, 2013. ADF DVT: Analyzing Financial Position of the European Football (Soccer) Leagues using Treemap | Lucas Jellema Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema explains how he used the ADF DVT Treemap component to visualize budget data from various European soccer teams. Slides from my Sessions at Collaborate 2013 | Zeeshan BaigZeeshan...

The following list represents the Top 10 most popular videos on the OTN YouTube Channel for the past 30 days. Recognize anyone? The Oracle ACE Cookbook: Lewis Cunningham Sometimes a cookbook is just a cookbook! Oracle ACE Director Lewis Cunningham talks about his collection of actual food recipes from members of the Oracle ACE community, and shares his thoughts on how the database world has changed since he first started blogging about it eight years ago. Lucas Jellema:...

Photo by Kevin Mazurkeithrichards.com What is software architecture? In The Changing Field of Software Architecture authors Rick Kazman, Len Bass, Paul Clements offer this answer, a quote from their book Software Architecture in Practice: The software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both. They explain: This definition stands in contrast to many other...

What are you looking at? Here's this week's list of last week's most popular posts on the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page Oracle BPM Suite PS6 (11.1.1.7 ) available for download Links, screenshots, and more in this overview from SOA Community blogger Juergen Kress. ADF DVT: Using the Timeline component to visualize the recent history of an RSS feed | Lucas JellemaOracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema's technical post describes a strategy for "preprocessing data and turning the data...

The Top 10 most popular items shared via the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page for the week of March 24-30, 2013 Installing and Configuring BI Admin Tool for Fusion Applications | FMW A-Team The Oracle Fusion Middleware A-Team architect known only as Richard describes the steps to install the BI Admin Tool. "While the process is fairly simple, there are a couple of 'gotchas' that can slow the process down," Richard says. Video: Adding Charts and Graphs to an ADF Mobile Application |...