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• Java Spotlight Episode 106: Java Security Update @spoofzu

  - by Roger Brinkley

  Java security update with Bruce Lowenthal and Milton Smith. Right-click or Control-click to download this MP3 file. You can also subscribe to the Java Spotlight Podcast Feed to get the latest podcast automatically. If you use iTunes you can open iTunes and subscribe with this link:  Java Spotlight Podcast in iTunes. Show Notes News Apple's Java Mac OS X 2012-006 Update NightHacking Tour Across Europe Four New Java Champions Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Solaris 11.1 and Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Bean Validation 1.1 Early Draft JSR 107 Early Draft JCP Elections - Meet the Candidates GlassFish switching to JDK-7 only build Events Oct 30-Nov 1, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara, United States of America Oct 31, JFall, Hart van Holland, Netherlands Nov 2-3, JMaghreb, Rabat, Morocco Nov 5-9, Øredev Developer Conference, Malmö, Sweden Nov 13-17, Devoxx, Antwerp, Belgium Nov 20-22, DOAG 2012, Nuremberg, Germany Dec 3-5, jDays, Göteborg, Sweden Dec 4-6, JavaOne Latin America, Sao Paolo, Brazil Dec 14-15, IndicThreads, Pune, India Feature InterviewMilton Smith leads the security program for Java products at Oracle. His responsibilities span from tactical to strategic: definition and communication of the security vision for Java, working with engineering teams and researchers, as well as industry at large. He has over 20+ years of industry experience with emphasis in programming and computer security. Milton previous employer was Yahoo where he lead security for the User Data Analytics(UDA) property.Bruce Lowenthal is the Senior Director of Security Alerts at Oracle Corporation. What’s Cool Andrew Haley on an OpenJDK ARM64 Port Joe Darcy - JDK bug migration: bugs.sun.com now backed by JIRA Marcus Hirt on Using the Mission Control DTrace Plug-in

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• Crystal Report 2010 Hosting Has Been Supported by ASPHostPortal

  - by mbridge

  This is the press release from ASPHostPortal and I see that they have supported Crystal Report 2010. For the complete information, please read this press release. :-)   ASPHostPortal is a premiere web hosting company that specialized in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting. Now, ASPHostPortal.com supports the new Crystal Report 2010 Hosting. For more information about this new product, please visit ASPHostPortal official website at http://www.asphostportal.com or http://asphostportal.com/Cheap-Crystal-Report-2010-Hosting.aspx. Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources. Several other applications, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, bundle an OEM version of Crystal Reports as a general purpose reporting tool. Crystal Reports became the de facto standard report writer when Microsoft released it with Visual Basic. "ASPHostPortal has again proved its existence in hosting industry with the launch of the new Crystal Report 2010 Hosting," said Dean Thomas, General Manager of ASPHostPortal. "Crystal Reports 2010 is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. It enables end users to consume reports with stunning visualizations, conduct on-report business modelling, and execute decisions instantly from the report itself—reducing dependency on IT and developers." "Get a clearer view of your business performance with our industry-leading report designer and visualization combined solution. You'll be able to create highly formatted reports with what-if scenario models, interactive dashboards and charts," said Chris Thompson, Sales Manager ASPHostPortal. "Here you can see the demonstration of Crystal Report 2010, http://crystalreportdemo.asphostportal.com."

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• Oracle Buys Compendium - Adds Leading Content Marketing Platform to Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud

  - by Richard Lefebvre

  News Facts Oracle today announced that it has acquired Compendium, a cloud-based content marketing provider that helps companies plan, produce and deliver engaging content across multiple channels throughout their customers’ lifecycle. Compendium’s data-driven approach aligns relevant content with customer data and profiles to help companies more effectively attract prospects, engage buyers, accelerate conversion of prospects to opportunities, increase adoption, and drive revenue growth. Compendium’s innovative solution complements Oracle’s industry leading Eloqua Marketing Cloud which is a part of Oracle’s comprehensive Customer Experience solution. The combination of Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud with Compendium is expected to enable modern marketers to align persona-based content to customers’ digital body language to increase “top-of-funnel” customer engagement, improve the quality of sales leads, realize the highest return on their marketing investment, and increase customer loyalty. More information on this announcement can be found at http://www.oracle.com/compendium. Supporting Quotes “As customers increasingly access information through online and mobile channels, the buying process is shifting from sales-driven to marketing-driven. Now, more than ever, marketers are challenged to deliver relevant and engaging content across multiple channels and throughout the customer lifecycle,” said Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Development. “By adding Compendium’s content marketing platform to Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud, customers will be able to capture more prospects, improve the customer experience and drive top line revenue.” “Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud is uniquely positioned to capture a prospect’s digital body language to help companies know each buyer’s demographics, behaviors and influencers,” said Chris Baggott, Compendium CEO. “By combining this buyer profile with Compendium’s data-driven content marketing platform, marketers will be able to deliver the right content, to the right individual across the right channel at the right time. We are very excited to now be a part of the industry’s most complete marketing cloud solution, giving us a global stage to deliver innovative content marketing solutions.” Supporting Resources About Oracle and Compendium General Presentation Customer and Partner Letter FAQ

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• Opportunities for Partners with Oracle in the Public Sector - Live Webcast, January 18th

  - by Paulo Folgado

  LIVE WEBCAST - OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTNERS WITH ORACLE IN THE PUBLIC SECTORTUESDAY, JANUARY 18th, 2011Learn about Oracle's industry strategy for the Public Sector and resources available to partners.  Each webcast will include information and answers to questions from Oracle's public sector leadership for that region.AGENDA·         Oracle's Public Sector Industry Strategy·         Oracle Partner Network (OPN) Overview·         Public Sector Knowledge Zone·         Specialization·         Oracle Validated Integration·         Solution Catalog·         How to engage with Oracle·         Questions and AnswersWEBCAST SCHEDULE AND LOGISTICSPlease attend the webcast for your region on Tuesday, January 18th: Region Time Web Conference Details*Please join both the Web and Audio conferences Audio Details Asia / Pacific 10:00 AM Signapore 1:00 PM Sydney 2:00 AM GMT  https://enablement20.webex.com/Session Number: 592 054 744Password: Oracle123 International Toll Free Dial-inConference Code: 2739403Security Pass code: 12345 EuropeMiddle EastAfrica  1:00 PM GMT/London https://enablement20.webex.com/Session Number: 596 548 609Password: Oracle123 International Toll Free Dial-inConference Code: 2739403Security Pass code: 12345 Americas  1:00 PM Eastern10:00 AM Pacific 6:00 PM GMT https://enablement20.webex.com/Session Number: 597 728 102Password: Oracle123 International Toll Free Dial-inConference Code: 2739403Security Pass code: 12345 VISIT THE PUBLIC SECTOR KNOWLEDGE ZONEClick Here to access the Knowledge Zone.  Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Contact Us | Legal Notices and Terms of Use | Privacy Statement      

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• Missed OpenWorld 2011 or JavaOne? See the Key Announcements Today

  - by Dain C. Hansen

  Learn more about Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne Key Announcements through our six On Demand Webcasts or Podcasts. Your time is precious and you can't make time to watch all keynotes and sessions on demand. Want to get a concise overview on the Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne key announcements? Presented by Oracle experts in EMEA, these six webcasts will help you decide which keynotes, general or solution sessions on Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne could be of more interest to you. Six informative, on-demand sessions are available as podcasts and webcasts, on Oracle Hardware and Software, each taking just 15-20 minutes. Be updated in an hour on Oracle OpenWorld on… Oracle Exadata and Exalogic Engineered Systems with Oracle Applications Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine, the industry's first in-memory hardware and software system Oracle Big Data Appliance, the end-to-end solution for Big Data Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, the industry's first solution to combine management of the full Oracle stack with complete enterprise cloud lifecycle management Oracle Fusion Applications, a complete suite with 100+ modules Oracle Public Cloud with subscription-based, self-service access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database Watch the Six JavaOne Key Announcement Webcasts anywhere you can access the Internet and learn more about: Plans for advancing the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) and an update on Java SE 8 Plans announced for the evolution Java Platform, Micro Edition Availability of JavaFX 2.0 The NetBeans IDE Availability for Windows, Mac, Linux and Oracle Solaris Latest developments in the evolution of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). Oracle Java Cloud Service. Follow other informative, on-demand sessions on Oracle Hardware and Software on topics like Cloud, Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, Big Data Appliance, Enterprise Manager 12c, Hardware - SuperCluster, Server - and Storage, Oracle Fusion Applications Register now!

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• Webcast: The Power to Translate is Now Inside Oracle WebCenter Sites

  - by kellsey.ruppel

  The Power to Translate is Now Inside Oracle WebCenter Sites You are invited to a special preview of the Lingotek Inside Oracle WebCenter Sites solution which will be showcased at Collaborate in Las Vegas later in April. Register Now! Now it's easy to quickly translate your content directly from Oracle WebCenter Sites using the new Lingotek - Inside for Oracle WebCenter Sites integration. Your users will be able to access translated content, nominate content for translation, and even offer to translate content themselves. Lingotek - Inside Integration: Content identified and seamlessly viewable within Lingotek Workbench. Translation Completed by: Machine and Translation Memory Community Volunteers, Crowdsourcing Professional Translators Translated Content Automatically Saved. Content within Oracle WebCenter Sites: Related Secured Routed Through Workflows Publish to Intranets, Web Sites, Applications Oracle WebCenter Sites Web Experience Management Enables marketers and business users to easily create and manage contextually relevant, social, and interactive online experiences across multiple channels on a global scale. Drive customer acquisition, brand loyalty, and business success Optimize customer engagement across Web, mobile, and social channels Manage large-scale, multichannel global online presence with integration to enterprise applications Register Now! You'll hear from the experts how this can be done. Free 30 Minute Webinar Date: Tues, Apr 17thTime: 8:00am MST, 3pm GMT and 4pm CET Win a Kindle Fire Register before April 6th for a chance to win a Amazon Kindle Fire! Presenter: Rob Vandenberg, President and CEO of Lingotek, drives the vision while leading the charge to change the future of translation. Rob is a well-known technology industry veteran, and his expertise and knowledge surrounding translation, localization, and internationalization materials, software products, and web content serves as an immeasurable asset to customers needs and requirements. Rob is a frequent industry speaker and panelist . Presenter: Andrew PalmerOracleEMEA Alliances DirectorWebCenter Sites System RequirementsPC-based attendeesRequired: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 ServerMacintosh®-based attendeesRequired: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

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• The Case of the Invisible Training Resource

  - by GGBlogger

  I’ve been at this programming business longer than I would like to admit. For that reason I am always looking for new training resources as anyone in this business knows all too well. I’ve looked at AppDev (way too expensive for my meager budget), LearnVisualStudio (I have a lifetime subscription), and several others. What appears to be a new version of AppDev called LearnDevNow has some good material and so it goes. So what does all this have to do with the title? I’ve been using Adobe’s Flex Builder 3 and now their latest Flash Builder 4 (a renaming of the Adobe Flex development environment). One of the offered perks on registering was a month’s subscription to Lynda.com. My first reaction was “What the heck is Lynda.com?” but I chose it and signed up. What a surprise I was in for. I’d never heard of them before but discovered one of the most comprehensive training resources I’ve ever seen – and all for $ 34.95 a month in the version that offers Exercise files. They do have a heavy focus on Adobe products but also cover a lot of Microsoft material. What bothered me is that in the time I’ve been in this business I’d never heard of them! ; Thus the allusion to “The Invisible Training Resource.” Not only do they offer beginner and in depth training but the syllabus and the instructors are some of the best I’ve seen in the industry. So I just feel that more folks need to know about this organization. If you need training in the venues they offer I can attest to the fact that they offer some of the best training available in this industry in my humble opinion. You really owe it to yourself to check out Lynda.com.

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• Oracle nomeada pela Forrester Leader em Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms

  - by Paulo Folgado

  According to an October 2010 report from independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc., Oracle is a leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms. Forrester Research defines BI as a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information, which can then be used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making. Written by Forrester vice president and principal analyst Boris Evelson, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010 states that "Oracle has built new metadata-level [Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g] integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Fusion Applications and continues to differentiate with its versatile ROLAP engine." The report goes on, "And in addition to closing some gaps it had in 10.x versions such as lack of RIA functionality, [the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g] actually leapfrogs the competition with the Common Enterprise Information Model (CEIM)--including the ability to define actions and execute processes right from BI metadata across BI and ERP applications." "We're pleased that the Forrester Wave recognizes Oracle Business Intelligence as a leading enterprise BI platform," said Paul Rodwick, vice president of product management, Oracle Business Intelligence. Key Innovations in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Released in August 2010, Oracle Business Intelligence 11g represents the industry's most complete, integrated, and scalable suite of BI products. Encompassing thousands of new features and enhancements, the latest release offers three key areas of innovations. * A unified environment. The industry's first unified environment for accessing and analyzing data across relational, OLAP, and XML data sources. * Enhanced usability. A new, integrated scorecard application, plus innovations in reporting, visualization, search, and collaboration. * Enhanced performance, scalability, and security. Deeper integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g and other components of Oracle Fusion Middleware provide lower management costs and increased performance, scalability, and security. Read the entire Forrester Wave Report.

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• How will my Electronic Engineering degree be received in the Canadian Game Development market? [closed]

  - by Harikawashi

  I have a Electronic Engineering with Computer Science Degree from a reputable South African university. The EE with CS degree is basically Electronic Engineering, with some of the high voltage subjects thrown out and replaced with computer science subjects - mostly quite theoretical, but not in too much depth. I went on to earn a Masters Degree in Digital Signal Processing, focussing on Speech Recognition in Educational Applications. I have always loved programming - I taught myself QBASIC when I was in primary school, I learned Java at school, did some low level C at University, and taught myself C# and Python while doing my post graduate degree. C# is currently my strong suit, I think I am pretty capable with it. I have two years work experience in Namibia - working as a consulting electrical engineer (no software content whatsoever) and also developing C# desktop applications for the company I work for. I would like to move to Canada next year and work in the Game Development Industry as programmer or software engineer. My interests in particular are towards the more mathematical applications, like game and physics engines, or statistical disciplines like artificial intelligence. However, these are passions - not areas in which I have any work experience. So the question: How well will my BEngEE&CS and MScEng be received in the game industry? Seeing as it's not a pure software degree and I have no official software development work experience?

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• Integrating with Oracle Fusion Applications: Discovering Integration Artifacts

  - by Lionel Dubreuil

  Oracle Enterprise Repository serves as the core element to the Oracle SOA Governance solution. An industry-leading metadata repository, Oracle Enterprise Repository provides a solid foundation for delivering governance throughout the service-oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle by acting as the single source of truth for information surrounding SOA assets and their dependencies. For Fusion Applications, the use of OER has been extended to include other integration asset types such as interface tables and other technical information such as data models, tables, views, lookups, profile options, et cetera. E-Business Suite users familiar with iRepository or eTRM will recognize the functionality in Fusion Applications OER. Oracle Enterprise Repository for Fusion Applications provides a common catalog of technical information, searchable using many different mechanisms. Customers can locate technical information by the name, description or keyword of the information they are looking for. They can also search by the type of asset they are trying to locate and/or where the asset sits in the product taxonomy. They can also see the how the asset dances in the choreography of some illustrative co-existence scenarios. These scenarios are laid out as both functional flow diagrams as well as technical interaction diagrams. Rajesh Raheja, software architect at Oracle, has recently posted an article on this topic: visibility and control are the key tenets to SOA governance, and the first step in integrating with Oracle Fusion Applications is to find out what are the integration options available. Oracle Enterprise Repository, an industry-leading metadata repository, provides this visibility. You can find his full blog post here.

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• What happened to the Journal of Game Development?

  - by Ricket

  The lengthy mission statement from its website states: The lack of game-specific research has prevented many in the academic community from embracing game development as a serious field of study. The Journal of Game Development (JOGD), however, provides a much-needed, peer-reviewed, medium of communication and the raison d'etre for serious academic research focused solely on game-related issues. The JOGD provides the vehicle for disseminating research and findings indigenous to the game development industry. It is an outlet for peer-reviewed research that will help validate the work and garner acceptance for the study of game development by the academic community. JOGD will serve both the game development industry and academic community by presenting leading-edge, original research, and theoretical underpinnings that detail the most recent findings in related academic disciplines, hardware, software, and technology that will directly affect the way games are conceived, developed, produced, and delivered. The Journal of Game Development was established in 2003. It's hard to find any information about the issues but at four issues per year, I estimate the last issue was distributed sometime in 2005 or 2006. It had a good editorial board of college professors and a founding editor from Ubisoft. The list of articles looks good. The price was reasonable. So what happened to it? Its website recently went down but you can see the last Archive.org version. The editor-in-chief is a professor at my school so I intend to ask him in person in a week or two, but I thought I'd see what you might be able to dig up about it first. Of course I will be sure to add an answer with his official word on the matter at that time.

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• Five Ideas: Project Management

  - by Sylvie MacKenzie, PMP

   Except from Profit Magazine “For everyone to put on the project manager hat and standardize the way every single thing is done means that now the whole organization is on the same page as to what needs to occur from the time a hurricane hits Haiti and when a boat pulls in to unload supplies.” —Rich D’Addario, consulting project manager in the Primavera Global Business Unit at Oracle, on helping AmeriCares deliver aid to Haiti “Primavera P6 Analytics generates information that can help organizations improve their utilization and trim down overall operating costs. But more importantly, it gives organizations improved visibility.” —Yasser Mahmud, vice president of product strategy and industry marketing in Oracle’s Primavera Global Business Unit “Organizations are constantly looking for ways to improve the speed and precision of their decisions and work without creating environments and systems that limit their personnel through rigid structures and inflexible processes. The latest release of Primavera Portfolio Management meets this demand by further streamlining processes and supporting enhanced decision-making, helping drive better value from portfolios. In addition, the new UI clearly demonstrates Oracle's commitment to providing a seamlessly integrated enterprise project portfolio management product suite.” —Mike Sicilia, senior vice president, Oracle's Primavera “Make it a business project, not an IT project. All levels of functional management must have ownership, responsibility, and accountability for the success of the implementation.” —from Eaton Operations Services Manager Marcos Baccetto's 9 Project Management Tips “AEC firms must strategically pursue standardization opportunities in the project management area while preserving the spirit of entrepreneurism and flexibility at an individual project manager level. An enterprise technology platform doesn't only help with standardization of key project management processes across the enterprise; it also improves performance management, team collaboration and client specific reporting at an individual project level.” —Maneesh Chhabra is a director of Industry Strategy and Insight at Oracle

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• A new mission statement for my school's algorithms class

  - by Eric Fode

  The teacher at Eastern Washington University that is now teaching the algorithms course is new to eastern and as a result the course has changed drastically mostly in the right direction. That being said I feel that the class could use a more specific, and industry oriented (since that is where most students will go, though suggestions for an academia oriented class are also welcome) direction, having only worked in industry for 2 years I would like the community's (a wider and much more collectively experienced and in the end plausibly more credible) opinion on the quality of this as a statement for the purpose an algorithms class, and if I am completely off target your suggestion for the purpose of a required Jr. level Algorithms class that is standalone (so no other classes focusing specifically on algorithms are required). The statement is as follows: The purpose of the algorithms class is to do three things: Primarily, to teach how to learn, do basic analysis, and implement a given algorithm found outside of the class. Secondly, to teach the student how to model a problem in their mind so that they can find a an existing algorithm or have a direction to start the development of a new algorithm. Third, to overview a variety of algorithms that exist and to deeply understand and analyze one algorithm in each of the basic algorithmic design strategies: Divide and Conquer, Reduce and Conquer, Transform and Conquer, Greedy, Brute Force, Iterative Improvement and Dynamic Programming. The Question in short is: do you agree with this statement of the purpose of an algorithms course, so that it would be useful in the real world, if not what would you suggest?

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• Microkernel architectural pattern and applicability for business applications

  - by Pangea

  We are in the business of building customizable web applications. We have the core team that provides what we call as the core platform (provides services like security, billing etc.) on top of which core products are built. These core products are industry specific solutions like telecom, utility etc. These core products are later used by other teams to build customer specific solutions in a particular industry. Until now we have a loose separation between platform and core product. The customer specific solutions are build by customizing 20-40% of the core offering and re-packaging. The core-platform and core products are released together as monolithic apps (ear). I am looking to improvise the current situation so that there is a cleaner separation on these 3. This allows us to have evolve each of these 3 separately etc. I've read through the Mircokernel architecture and kind of felt that I can take apply the principles in my context. But most of my reading about this pattern is always in the context of operating systems or application servers etc. I am wondering if there are any examples on how that pattern was used for architecting business applications. Or you could provide some insight on how to apply that pattern to my problem.

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• Graduate expectations versus reality

  - by Bobby Tables

  When choosing what we want to study, and do with our careers and lives, we all have some expectations of what it is going to be like. Now that I've been in the industry for almost a decade, I've been reflecting a bit on what I thought (back when I was studying Computer Science) programming working life was going to be like, and how it's actually turning out to be. My two biggest shocks (or should I say, broken expectations) by far are the sheer amount of maintenance work involved in software, and the overall lack of professionalism: Maintenance: At uni, we were all told that the majority of software work is maintenance of existing systems. So I knew to expect this in the abstract. But I never imagined exactly how overwhelming this would turn out to be. Perhaps it's something I mentally glazed over, and hoped I'd be building cool new stuff from scratch a lot more. But it really is the case that most jobs are overwhelmingly maintenance, bug fixing, and support oriented. Lack of professionalism: At uni, I always had the impression that commercial software work is very process-oriented and stringently engineered. I had images of ISO processes, reams of technical documentation, every feature and bug being strictly documented, and a generally professional environment. It came as a huge shock to realise that most software companies operate no differently to a team of students working on a large semester-long project. And I've worked in both the small agile hack shop, and the medium sized corporate enterprise. While I wouldn't say that it's always been outright "unprofessional", it definitely feels like the software industry (on the whole) is far from the strong engineering discipline that I expected it to be. Has anyone else had similar experiences to this? What are the ways in which your expectations of what our profession would be like were different to the reality?

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• Is there such a thing as "closure" with software work?

  - by Bobby Tables

  I burned out last year (after a decade of fulltime programming jobs) and am on a sabbatical now. With all the self-examination I've started to figure out some of the root causes of my burnout, and one of the major ones is basically this: there was never any real closure in any of the work I've ever done. It was always a case of getting into an open-ended support/maintenance grind and going stale. When I first entered the industry, I had this image of programming work being very project-based. And I expected projects to have a start, beginning, and END. And then you move on and start on something totally new and fresh. Basically I never expected that a lot (most) of software work involves supporting and maintaining the same code base for open-ended long periods of time - years and even decades. That, combined with generally having itchy feet makes me think that burnout is inevitable for me, after 2-3 years, in ANY fulltime software job. All this sounds like I probably should have been a contractor instead of a fulltimer. But when I discuss this with people, a lot of them say that even THEN you can't really escape having to go back and maintain/support the stuff you worked on, over and over (eg. Coming back on support contracts, for example). The nature of software work is simply like that. There is no project closure, unlike in many other engineering fields. So my question is - Is there ANY programming work out there which is based on short to mid term projects/stints and then moving on cleanly? And is there any particular industry domain or specialization where this kind of project work is typical?

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• A (slight) Change of Focus

  - by StuartBrierley

  When I started this blog in September 2009 I was working as a BizTalk developer for a financial institution based in the South West of England.  At the time I was developing using BizTalk Server 2004 and intended to use my blog to collate and share any useful information and experiences that I had using this version of BizTalk (and occasionally other technologies) in an effort to bring together as many useful details as I could in one place. Since then my circumstances have changed and I am no longer working in the financial industry using BizTalk 2004.  Instead I have recently started a new post in the logistics industry, in the North of England, as "IT Integration Manager".  The company I now work for has identified a need to boost their middleware/integration platform and have chosen BizTalk Server 2009 as their platform of choice; this is where I come in. To start with my role is to provide the expertise with BizTalk that they currently lack, design and direct the initial BizTalk 2009 implementation and act as lead developer on all pending BizTalk projects.  Following this it is my hope that we will be able to build on the initial BizTalk "proof of concept" and eventually implement a fully robust enterprise level BizTalk 2009 environment. As such, this blog is going to see a shift in focus from BizTalk 2004 to BizTalk 2009 and at least initially is likely to include posts on the design and installation of our BizTalk environment - assuming of course that I have the time to write them! The last post I made was the start of a chapter by chapter look at the book SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009.  Due to my change of job I am currently "paused" half way through this book, and my lack of posts on the subject are directly as a result of the job move and the pending relocation of my family.  I am hoping to write about my overall opinion of this book sometime soon; so far it certainly looks like it will be a positive one. Thanks for reading; I'm off to manage some integration.

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• Why CFOs Should Care About Big Data

  - by jmorourke

  The topic of “big data” clearly has reached a tipping point in 2012.  With plenty of coverage over the past few years in the IT press, we are now starting to see the topic of “big data” covered in mainstream business press, including a cover story in the October 2012 issue of the Harvard Business Review.  To help customers understand the challenges of managing “big data” as well as the opportunities that can be created by leveraging “big data”, Oracle has recently run and published the results of a customer survey, as well as white papers and articles on this topic.  Most recently, we commissioned a white paper titled “Mastering Big Data: CFO Strategies to Transform Insight into Opportunity”. The premise here is that “big data” is not just a topic that CIOs should pay attention to, but one that CFOs should understand and take advantage of as well.  Clearly, whoever masters the art and science of big data will be positioned for competitive advantage in their industries or markets.  That’s why smart CFOs are taking control of big data and business analytics projects, not just to uncover new ways to drive growth in a slowing global economy, but also to be a catalyst for change in the enterprise.  With an increasing number of CFOs now responsible for overseeing IT investments and providing strategic insight to the board, CFOs will be increasingly called upon to take a leadership role in assessing the value of “big data” initiatives, building on their traditional skills in reporting and helping managers analyze data to support decision making. Here’s a link to the white paper referenced above, which is posted on the Oracle C-Central/CFO web site, as well as some other resources that can help CFOs master the topic of “big data”: White Paper “Mastering Big Data:  CFO Strategies to Transform Insight into Opportunity CFO Market Watch article:  “Does Big Data Affect the CFO?” Oracle Survey Report:  “From Overload to Impact – An Industry Scorecard on Big Data Industry Challenges” Upcoming Big Data Webcast with Andrew McAfee Here’s a general link to Oracle C-Central/CFO in case you want to start there: www.oracle.com/c-central/cfo Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need additional information:  [email protected]

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• BPM Solution Catalogue–promote your process templates

  - by JuergenKress

  Oracle’s BPM Solution Catalogue showcasing our solutions with partners is now live. Take a look at the initial entries here. We are planning to use this catalogue not only to publish and highlight successful BPM implementations but also will be running campaigns in industry verticals with your solutions. If you have delivered a successful implementation in BPM and think it could be reused and applied again in a similar scenario in the same industry or in a similar environment, then we are keen to know about it and will add it to the solution catalogue. The solution catalogue will showcase successful BPM solutions both inside and outside Oracle. Be in touch with us on this via this e-mail id and we will make sure to add your solution. For more information you can also read the article “Leading-Edge BPM Benefits Without Bleeding-Edge Pain” SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit  www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Technorati Tags: BPM,Solution Catalogue,process templates,BPM Suite,SOA Community,Oracle SOA,Oracle BPM,Community,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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• Pros and Cons between learning to program on Windows and Linux and Macs

  - by Amumu

  I have been studying IT for 2 years and I'm going to graduate soon in this year (if everything goes well). I think it's time for me to choose a path to specialized into some fields of this large industry. Personally, I want to be a game programmer. But to be a game programmer, surely I have to invest my time to study Windows Programming, then DirectX and other programming techniques related to game. On the other hand, Linux seems promising as well. I am not sure about Game Programming on for it, but it seems become an expert for this OS, and by expert it's not about using the OS to become an administrator, but can do further than that, such as understand the OS to its essence and can produce applications for it. However, there's some obstacles in my view for this development path. Many of my friends think that Linux is based on free and open source, and if you follow it, as its name suggested: Free and Open Source, it means we also give away our software free. Otherwise, we will have to find a second job to make living. Currently, I think a viable way to make money on Linux is doing works related to client-server. Another way to developer my career is to become expert in developing business applications for companies. This is more on business, not on specialized IT fields so I am not really interested. Another alternative is programming on mobile devices, such as iPhone, Android and it seems very promising and easier to approach. Another way is to become a computer scientist and research on academic subjects such as AI, human-computer interaction, but this is far beyond my reach, so I won't invest my time on it until I feel I am experienced enough. That's all I can think of for now. I may miss a lot of things, so I need more opinions as input to get the big picture of the industry for my career path.

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• Oracle Identity Management 11gR2 Live Event - New York

  - by Tanu Sood

    Are you in New York or the vicinity on September 6? If so, come join Amit Jasuja, Senior Vice President, Security and Identity Management at Oracle as he discusses the evolution of Oracle identity Management solutions and the business drivers (and industry trends) behind those. You have heard about some of the new experiences delivered with the latest release of Oracle Identity Management - simplified user experience, enhanced security and seamless enablement for secure cloud and mobile environments. Now come see it in action and hear what customers, your peers, are saying about their implementations. This forum will also be a great opportunity for you to connect directly with technology experts and network with industry professionals. There is still time left to register so book your space today. Registration details as well as the agenda for the day can be found here. We look forward to hosting you on Thursday, September 6th. Oracle Identity Management 11gR2 Live Event – New York Thursday, September 6, 2012 Oracle NYC Office 101 Park Avenue 4th Floor New York, NY 10178 Register Here Not in NY on Sep 6? Find an event near you in North America.

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• Congratulations to 2012 Innovation Award winners in BPM category

  - by Manoj Das

  Last year many of our customers went live on BPM 11g. It is my extreme pleasure to congratulate two of them – Amadeus and Navistar – for being awarded Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Award at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. We invited our customers to submit their most innovative BPM implementations that have delivered substantiated value to them. This year we saw more than 20 submissions from our customers seeing significant business value from their live BPM 11g deployments. The submissions came from across the world, spanning various industry verticals including manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, Hi-Tech, Public Sector, Education and covering many process usage patterns. Award submissions were evaluated based on the uniqueness of their business case, business benefits, level of impact relative to the size of the organization, complexity and magnitude of implementation, and the originality of architecture. Amadeus Team Receiving Innovation Award from Hasan Rizvi Congratulations to Amadeus and Navistar and their teams on being recognized from among some very strong submissions and more importantly for the business value delivered. It is an honor to be part of your success and to play a small role in the innovation you drive. Navistar is a leading truck manufacturing company which produces International® brand commercial and military trucks, MaxxForce® brand diesel engines, IC Bus™ brand school and commercial buses, and Navistar RV brands of recreational vehicles. The company also provides truck and diesel engine service parts. Amadeus is a leading transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, providing transaction processing power and technology solutions to both travellers and travel providers. Both Navistar and Amadeus have leveraged Oracle BPM Suite to improve visibility into their business and made their business more agile and efficient. We congratulate them again and wish them continued success in their business and future BPM initiatives.

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• Am I programming too slow?

  - by Jonn

  I've only been a year in the industry and I've had some problems making estimates for specific tasks. Before you close this, yes, I've already read this: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/648/how-to-respond-when-you-are-asked-for-an-estimate and that's about the same problem I'm having. But I'm looking for a more specific gauge of experiences, something quantifiable or probably other programmer's average performances which I should aim for and base my estimates. The answers range from weeks, and I was looking more for an answer on the level of a task assigned for a day or so. (Note that this doesn't include submitting for QA or documentations, just the actual development time from writing tests if I used TDD, to making the page, before having it submitted to testing) My current rate right now is as follows (on ASP.NET webforms): Right now, I'm able to develop a simple data entry page with a grid listing (no complex logic, just Creating and Reading) on an already built architecture, given one full day's (8 hours) time. Adding complex functionality, and Update and Delete pages add another full day to the task. If I have to start the page from scratch (no solution, no existing website) it takes me another full day. (Not always) but if I encounter something new or haven't done yet it takes me another full day. Whenever I make an estimate that's longer than the expected I feel that others think that I'm lagging a lot behind everyone else. I'm just concerned as there have been expectations that when it's just one page it should take me no more than a full day. Yes, there definitely is more room for improvement. There always is. I have a lot to learn. But I would like to know if my current rate is way too slow, just average, or average for someone no longer than a year in the industry.

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• juicy couture handbag 2012 has a complete abrogating

  - by user109129

  Washington admissionory approximate animosity Law "will use the activityable angleableware, or added activityable IT bargains of online writing afirely accurate as activityable acts, regardbelow of the activityable IT is acclimated in the achieve of the artecompleteity or business, this law applies. This new law, including IT companies, accomplisheditects, companies,juicy couture handbag online or the admissionory apostle acclimatized can sue for activityable IT and its online writing in Washington admissionory adjustment companies in the breadth of approximate animosity. In November 2011, the topest magistrates of the admissionory governments, the 39 apostle acclimatized ambrosial a aggregate letter to Juicy Couture accoutrements the Federal adjustment bureau, beforehand federal agencies to crop a boxlikeer bases to corruption those who use activityable IT companies for approximate animosity in the final appraisement, it is out of bread-and-adulate interests. The use of activityable IT has alively afflicted the directness of animosity in industries outadmissionory the IT industry, and ultimately affect the able bread-and-adulate acreage. In this backbreaking bread-and-adulate times, American companies are all adverse presconstant to completeize accoutrement opportaccessionies for the administrateing of the admissionory governments to beappear added acerbic in acclimatizement to enconstant fair animosity a allotment of admissionpdispatchs. The abrogating appulse of the use of activityable IT and activity is not apprenticed to the associated admissionorys, it is not apprenticed to bookish Juicy Couture acreage owners. The bread-and-adulate aggregate is asable a affliction for the Chinese abbreviation. juicy couture handbag 2012 has a complete abrogating bread-and-adulate appulse of the Chinese accomplisheditects to ascribe in fair animosity and acadding for bookish acreage activity consulting abutting anterior activity, afresh appear a assay abode, IT piracy affliction to an ceremony draft of honest accomplisheditects $ 837 amateur, ie draft of $ 4.18 billion in the angleableware specific to the five-year activity aeon. The aadvancedmentioned time, the proactivityration of the use of activityable and pirated angleableware admission asable hindered the aapprenticedth of IT and angleableware industry to allay the achievement of a blossomy bookish acreage arabuttalsments admission a abrogating appulse on the admissionion ambiance.

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• Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

  - by Greg Low

  One thing you get to do as you get older, or have been around the industry for a long time, is to pontificate. My pet topic today is passwords. I think that they are, as a concept, now completely broken and have been for a long time. We tell users:1. Pick something really complex2. Don't write it down3. Change it regularly4. Use a different password for each site, and often each role that you hold in each site5. Deal with the fact that we apply different rules for passwords on each siteetc, etc.Is this even humanly possible? I don't think it is. Yet we blame the users when "they" get it wrong. How can they be getting it wrong when we design a system that requires super-human ability to comply. (These guys are potential exceptions: http://www.worldmemorychampionships.com/) We are the ones that are getting it wrong and it's long overdue that we, as an industry, need to apply our minds to fixing it, instead of assuming that users should just deal with it.

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