Monthly Archives: June 2006

ACM Queue – The Rise and Fall of CORBA – The story behind this once-promising distributed computing technology-why it fell short, and what we can learn from it.

“It seems inevitable that Web services will enact a history quite similar to CORBA’s.” Duh! Unfortunately it misses the most important technical reason (and if you have to ask, you don’t read my blog closely enough 8-) (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

Inspirational Technology: 10 things to change in your thinking when building REST XML Protocols

“Build software that bends”. I love the XML Schema advice; that’s often overlooked. In case you needed another reason to avoid the anti-pattern that is WSDL … (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

The 2006 ‘What Now How’ Awards for REST Protocols

Awards! I love awards. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

Brain.Save() – WCF RSS Toolkit

I can’t find any sample code, but this sounds great. I’m all teary-eyed 8-) (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

Getting SOA

Phil Wainewright gushes over Employease Extend; This tells you that Employease has thought very carefully about granularity, and has exposed services based on whether they deliver complete results that will be useful to customers. I don’t consider having separate services for “AddFoo” and “ChangeFoo” (where Foo = “CorpGroup”, “JobTitle”, etc..) to be a best practice.… Read More »

Pubsub Implosion

Damn, that’s too bad. No white knight? That seems hard to believe. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

world wide web

Looks weird, doesn’t it? According to Tony Byrne, that’s what at least one publication will be using from now on; Forthwith, the following terms, “web, website, webcast, internet, intranet, the net” shall merit only lower-case treatment. Now, english class was never a favourite (ahem), but I think I know what a Proper noun/name is, and… Read More »

Mark on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Fear me! (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

ongoing – Stop the Metaphors!

“Play by the rules and you can be part of it and build something great, struggle against them and you’ll look lame and you’ll fail.” (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

Survey: IT hasn’t delivered agility, yet

Can you say, “Death spiral”? “most of the 320 executives interviewed for the study say their enterprises haven’t gotten anywhere yet in terms of agility” and “About 60 percent say SOA is an important initiative to becoming a more agile enterprise” (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]