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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. My week at the Web 2.0 conference, while not exactly an overwhelming experience, nevertheless ...

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 sand about how to divide up large domain models along business lines and that is a very good ...

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 about Software Factories until I sat through an Open Space session on the topic in Cortina ...

Ouch! and one month laterOuch!(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 reconciling the different views are coming to blows. I have to say that I experienced much of the ...

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 are some takeaways that I found interesting about the new UI platform.The investment in WPF ...

During the time since my last 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 up for some time because his arguments are so compelling. As a result of our growth, we have ...

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 did you think it could be used by power users as well as developers? I did. We are no closer ...

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 there seem to be better ways to tie close systems together. For non developers, there ...

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 capable version of Linux to support things like hard disk recording, mixing, post production, ...

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 database style, you must give up on managing the lifecycle events of your domain objects. ...