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No Silver Bullet Reloaded Retrospective OOPSLA Panel Summary

At OOPSLA 2007, a retrospective discussion panel on Fred Brooks' article, No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, was held including Fred Brooks himself, Martin Fowler, Ricardo Lopez, Aki Namioka, Linda Northrop, Dave Parnas, Dave Thomas, and Steven Fraser as panel impresario.

Abel Avram Floyd Marinescu
on Oct 21, 2008
Why BPEL is not the holy grail for BPM

In the Business Process Modeling world there is still an ongoing standards debate. In this article, Pierre Vigneras of the Bull BPM team, discusses problems with one of those standards - BPEL. Pierre walks us through a simple parallel process and discusses the numerous issues practitioners face in trying to express an unstructured flow based on a structured model.

Pierre Vigneras
on Oct 21, 2008
Implementing SOA Governance

The hardest thing about a successful adoption of SOA is not the technology, but rather, the culture change. In this article, Todd Biske offers his perspective on using Governance to drive this culture change. The article covers the establishment of policies, defines the role of a CoE and look at techniques to help with the enforcement of these policies.

Todd Biske
on Oct 20, 2008
A Formal Performance Tuning Methodology: Wait-Based Tuning

In this article, Steven Haines talks about web application performance tuning which used to be more of an art than science. He proposes a method called wait-based tuning, making the entire process more measurable and, consequently, more scientific.

Steven Haines
on Oct 06, 2008
How to GET a Cup of Coffee

In this article, Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson show how to drive an application's flow through the use of hypermedia in a RESTful application, using the well-known example from Gregor Hohpe's "Starbucks does not use Two-Phase-Commit" to illustrate how the Web's concepts can be used for integration purposes.

Jim Webber Savas Parastatidis Ian Robinson
on Oct 02, 2008
LHC Grid: Data storage and analysis for the largest scientific instrument on the planet

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator that aims to revolutionize our understanding of our universe. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project provides data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC.

Dio Synodinos
on Oct 01, 2008
AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution – Part Two

In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry continue their description of AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors have created several extensions to the AtomPub specification, among them Auto-Tagging, Batching, and Aggregate Feeds.

Chris Berry Bryon Jacob
on Sep 26, 2008
Book Spotlight: Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed

Mike Snell and Lars Powers tackle developer productivity with their recent book titled Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed by Sams Publishing. Included is a sample chapter for download, Chapter 10 on Debugging.

Mike Snell Lars Powers
on Sep 24, 2008
Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design

In this article, Joshua Bloch, head of Java on Google and former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, presents a list of maxims intended to be a concise summary of good API design guidelines. The maxims represent the abstract written by Joshua for his session "How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters" held during JavaPolis 2006.

Joshua Bloch
on Sep 22, 2008
Paradigm based Polyglot Programming

Have you ever wondered why people talk about having "the right language for the right job"? Or why people talk about using more languages within the same system? Sadek Drobi explains why you should consider mixing languages within your system, how to think and what to consider.

Sadek Drobi
on Sep 19, 2008
Your First Cup of Web 2.0 - A Quick Look at jQuery, Spring MVC, and XStream/Jettison

Refreshing the web page every time data is requested from the server is annoying for the users. Joel Confino shows how existing web pages can be tweaked to request data via AJAX without refreshing the page, by using jQuery, a JavaScript library, which involves minimal changes to existing code.

Joel Confino
on Sep 15, 2008
"Systems Development": a New Discipline for a New Education

Educator Dr. Dave West discusses “Systems Development”, a new discipline emphasizing humanity, craft, design, creativity, innovation, and emergence - in stark contrast with current university disciplines. West proposes a better educational experience, replacing the sterility of today’s classrooms and labs with the workshop, or “bottega.”

Dr. Dave West
on Sep 12, 2008

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