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In recent years I seem to have become something of a dessert wine fanatic. On my kitchen shelf – my home for soon-to-be-drunk, partially-drunk, and particularly attractive bottles (behind which I can hide the others 8-), I keep about a dozen bottles – mostly demi – of several different dessert wines, including Ice Wine, Beerenauslese, Sauternes, Tokaji, Muscat Beaunes de Venise, and Moscato d’Asti.
There’s one wine I didn’t list there though. And curiously enough, it’s also not listed in this about.com Valentine’s piece on wine and chocolate. I say “curious”, because in my opinion, it’s the single best wine match for dark chocolate; Brachetto d’Acqui. It’s a marvellous though obscure (due to limited production) sparkler gem from my favourite all-round wine region, Piemonte in northern Italy. Even the crappy Brachettos – like the one currently adorning my shelf – still posess a red fruit sweetness that you won’t find in any other wine. The better ones are just more fruity, aromatic, and complex. Plus, a red sparkler on Valentine’s Day? How do you miss that?!
Somebody asked me about this a while ago. Here’s a sample.
IMO, the semantics of messages in pub/sub aren’t ProcessMessage, they are (or should be) more along the lines of SomethingInterestingHappened. Note the past tense. I think that is the key to achieving a loosely coupled enterprise.
Yes! If it’s your intent that all subscribed Web services implement a “SomethingInterestingHappened” operation so that documents can be submitted to each one then I’m totally in synch with that. I just wonder how it’s different to all of them implementing HTTP POST or SMTP DATA?
“SomethingInterestingHappened” is a uniform application semantic, though. It’s good to see Chris getting behind REST principles! 8-)