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I have spent the last few months trying to get my head around the effects of the new kids in town, the big social networks, the Web 2.0 darlings, the perceived shift of "ownership" of the web from companies to users and how companies relate to all this. Read More...
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Here is his rant., the SOA Elephant in the room. It's strange to hear myself commenting on SOA at all honestly, but for a variety of reasons, Udi Dahan's blogging not least among them, my mind seems to have turned a corner on SOA. SOA puts a line in the Read More...
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Beat is one of the more enthusiastic Microsoft evangelists I have met. When I met him in Lillehammer in 2005, he was beating the SOA drum. Now he is beating the Software Factory drum. I think he really believes in what he is doing. I was pretty much ignorant Read More...
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Ouch! and one month later Ouch! (follow the links) If you read through the posts and comments, the heart of the arguments come out. Agile methods and values are no longer the 'fair haired boys" of the industry. The early adopter phase is over and people Read More...
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There has been more talk about the Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) lately as release is coming "real soon now". Channel 9 did an interview of Michael Wallent where the history, vision and roadmap of WPF is well covered. Definitely worth a view. Here Read More...
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During the time since my l ast post about this topic my company has grown a lot. That growth has put the generalist idea to the test. A little while back Ralf Westphal posted about the topic too with his usual powerful voice. I have been meaning to follow Read More...
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OK, walk away from the discovery issues, lets talk about web services vs REST some more. Did you ever pull from the early days of Web Service visions the idea of tools working with services to enable simple construction of software? Same question but Read More...
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I met Udi Dahan in Cortina this year and was surprised to find someone that passionate about SOA. He wasn't alone. Then Jimmy started posing some questions and got some answers. I think that overall story of SOA hasn't resonated with me because for developers Read More...
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For my .net oriented readers this will have to be a little diversion to another world for you. I have been dabbling in an open source project for some time, the Demudi custom distribution of Debian . This distribution was created to provide a pro-audio Read More...
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Mats Helander did a post comparing OR mapping to virtual memory in modern computers. It was a great post, comparing data oriented and object database visions of OR mapping. The key to his idea is that to fully embrace OR mapping in the object oriented Read More...
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It's pretty easy to just keep focusing on the same old coding topics day after day. Meanwhile, real energy is moving towards new ways to use the web. I've been feeling a really tangible surge in that energy in the last couple of months so it's was time Read More...
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Joel Spolsky wrote an article that has gotten quite a bit of reaction. From Tim Bray saying he mostly agrees to Frans Bouma saying its absurd, there is a lot of feeling that this article has aroused. It aroused some strong feeling for me as well and I Read More...
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My friend Jimmy posted a while ago now about how he uses roles in his designs. I had to write and plead ignorant, which was certainly true, I couldn't understand what he meant. I was still confused after his reply until our mutual friend Chris sent a Read More...
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I will be doing my talk scheduled for SD Best Practices 2005 in Boston in rehearsal mode in De Pere next week. I will do this next Thursday night the 22nd of Sept. at the new PAi offices in the De Pere East Industrial Park on Enterprise Drive. I'll start Read More...
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For the last year on my own and for the last six months or so with my development team at the office we have been learning, experimenting, and otherwise playing with or extending our test driven development ideas to UI code, primarily web based UI's. Read More...