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Raiders of the Lost BluePrints

The Sun BluePrints Program produced technical best practice documents for over a decade. Sun's culture included a strong aversion to throwing anything away, and...

The Sun BluePrints Program produced technical best practice documents for over a decade. Sun's culture included a strong aversion to throwing anything away, and so we had endless archives of documents that we were afraid of throwing away – just in case someone wanted a specific obscure reference. As we have moved into the Oracle culture, things changed. Published documents have an expiration date, after which they need to be updated or discarded. This is a good thing, but one...

links for 2011-01-26

William Vambenepe: The REST bubble"Just yesterday I was writing about how Cloud APIs are like military parades. To some extent, their REST rigor is a way to...

William Vambenepe: The REST bubble"Just yesterday I was writing about how Cloud APIs are like military parades. To some extent, their REST rigor is a way to enforce implementation discipline. But a large part of it is mostly bling aimed at showing how strong (for an army) or smart (for an API) the people in charge are." - William Vambenepe.(tags: oracle REST cloud)

Hands On Labs: Installing Solaris 10 on VirtualBox

image courtesy of http://www.squidoo.com/labrador-retriever-dog-trainingThe prolific and well-traveled Brian Leonard, author of the popular Observatory blog,...

image courtesy of http://www.squidoo.com/labrador-retriever-dog-trainingThe prolific and well-traveled Brian Leonard, author of the popular Observatory blog, has just finished creating a new hands-on lab:HOL: Intall Solaris 10 on VirtualBoxThis lab is a prerequisite to several upcoming labs. It installs a Solaris 10 10/09 appliance image on Oracle VM VirtualBox on your system. Instructions and prerequisites are provided for Windows, MacOS, Solaris, and Linux.Use this...

links for 2011-01-25

Registration open for Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Oracle WebLogic Server"Learn how Oracle WebLogic Server enables a whole new level of...

Registration open for Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Oracle WebLogic Server"Learn how Oracle WebLogic Server enables a whole new level of productivity for enterprise developers. Also hear the latest on Java EE 6 and the programming tenets that have made it a true platform breakthrough." Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011.(tags: OTNVDD oracle otn weblogic)Oracle Applications Virtual Tradeshow - Feb 3February 3, 2011. 11:00am - 4:00pm ET | 8:00am - 1:00pm PT.(tags: oracle...

Is Someone Spying on Your Virtualized Environment?

Virtualization is one of those hot topics that dominates the thoughts of systems architects. Of course, the newer and more visible a technology trend, the more...

Virtualization is one of those hot topics that dominates the thoughts of systems architects. Of course, the newer and more visible a technology trend, the more likely it is cyber pests are looking to exploit some weakness.Oracle VM Server for SPARC (previously called Sun Logical Domains or LDoms) technology is one implementation of virtualization based on the UltraSPARC T1, T2, T2 Plus and SPARC T3 processors. It's been around for a while, so we have the advantage of a more...

links for 2011-01-24

Paul Done: Exalogic Software Optimizations"For version 1.0 of Exalogic there is a number of Exalogic-specific enhancements and optimisations that have been made...

Paul Done: Exalogic Software Optimizations"For version 1.0 of Exalogic there is a number of Exalogic-specific enhancements and optimisations that have been made to the Oracle Application Grid middleware products." - Paul Done(tags: oracle otn exalogic)James McGovern: Enterprise Architecture: Leadership and Emotional Vampires"The biggest difference between a great organization and a mediocre one is the fact that leadership recognizes the emotional vampires amongst its ranks...

When You Can't Find the Torque Wrench

I come from a part of the world that considers doing it yourself without the right tools a great sign of resourcefulness (Lima, Peru.) I live in part of the...

I come from a part of the world that considers doing it yourself without the right tools a great sign of resourcefulness (Lima, Peru.) I live in part of the world that considers doing it yourself with the right tools a sign of preparedness (Colorado, USA).Both may be true, but sometimes the torque wrench refuses to reveal its location and that usually happens when the VP of IT has chewed out the Director of IT who has called your boss and his best buddies into the corner...

EntArch Practitioner Guides and Reference Architectures

You can talk about enterprise architecture, and talk, and talk. Or you can get down in the trenches, roll up your sleeves, and take an active role in...

You can talk about enterprise architecture, and talk, and talk. Or you can get down in the trenches, roll up your sleeves, and take an active role in transforming the enterprise. Even the world’s largest white board and an unlimited budget for dry erase markers isn’t going to turn that lumbering behemoth of an enterprise into the sleek, agile business powerhouse it must become. If you’re interested in moving enterprise architecture off of the white board and into action,...

links for 2011-01-21

‎@FusionSecExpert: Oracle Identity Federation (OIF) now supports OpenID 2.0."In addition, OIF now supports “custom actions” by which you can create custom site...

‎@FusionSecExpert: Oracle Identity Federation (OIF) now supports OpenID 2.0."In addition, OIF now supports “custom actions” by which you can create custom site specific operations that are executed during federated authentication at the service provider (consumer) and identity provider (producer)." - Brian Eidelman(tags: oracle otn security OIF)‎@myfear: WebLogic 10.3.4.0 + OEPE + Maven + Primefaces 2.2RC"If you are willing to give the existing RC a test drive you can follow...