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Partitioned-Iterative more appropriate for EA than Zachman, TOGAF?
Roger Sessions claims that the most popular EA frameworks (Zachman, TOGAF, FEA, and Gartner) have failed to evolve to the needs of today's more complex development needs. Instead, Sessions proposes a 'Partitioned-Iterative' Approach that reduces complexity through partitioning an organization in smaller pieces, rather than defining the architecture for the whole company at once.
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Interview: Anne Thomas Manes on SOA, Governance, and REST
In an InfoQ interview, recorded at QCon London, Anne Thomas Manes, research director at Burton Group, talks about the state of SOA, explains different ways of getting funding for SOA initiatives, the value of SOA governance and governance tools. Another topic covered is the applicability of REST to SOA, the need for a RESTful description language, and REST support in SOAP toolkits.
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Microsoft Research's Accelerator: A Data-Parallel Library for .NET that Targets GPUs
Microsoft Research's Accelerator Project exposes a .NET library for performing parallel data processing using a computer's GPU.
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Testing and Quality Control the only Certification Needed?
A new certification for software developers that is neither about in depth knowledge of programming languages, nor any modelling and design techniques, was suggested by Reginald Braithwaite. Only one subject would be on the examination list - "Testing and quality control". Safety has to be the prerequisite to any software development job. For the rest marketplace will decide.
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Google Base vs. Microsoft's Astoria
Dare Obasanjo has done a comparison of two new protocols for access database style data via HTTP. These protocols, based on REST, are the Google Base and Microsoft's Astoria.
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InfoQ Launches Architecture Community
InfoQ has launched a 6th community on 'Architecture', the intention of which is to serve as a source for tracking change and innovation of interest to those with an architecting/design role but not specific to any of our other communities on InfoQ which currently include Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile.
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Code reuse highly overrated?
Dennis Forbes bucks the conventional wisdom that has caused the industry to trend toward architectures focused on asset reuse, asserting that code reuse is highly overrated and rarely pans out as advertised.
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Using Amazon Web Services to Implement a Video File Conversion app
As covered on InfoQ in the past, Amazon's infrastructure services platform is enabling new levels of cost savings as well as capabilities for certain classes of applications that can map to its scalable compute and storage services. One recent sample application demonstrates building a complete video file conversion service.
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WSO2 Releases Web Service Framework/C v1.0 and announces Mashup Server
WSO2 announced the release of WSF/C which is a C library used for producing and consuming web services in C. Similar releases exist for Java and PHP. They also announced a new product, the Mashup Server which will be a platform for creating, deploying, and consuming Web services Mashups.
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Kevin Halverson: How to implement IQueryable
In a two-part series, Kevin Halverson has demonstrated how to create a LINQ provider by implementing the IQueryable and IQueryProvider interfaces. Specifically he uses the Windows Desktop Search as a data source.
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Changes to .NET 2.0 Result in Breaking Changes to Culture Names
There has been a breaking change the list of culture names in .NET 2.0. This change applies to Windows Vista and anyone who has installed patch ms07-049.
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W3C Efficient XML Interchange format draft published
The W3C has recently announced the first public draft for the Efficient XML Interchange Format which is a suggestion for compressing XML to increase the efficiency on the wire and on CPUs. As can be expected it didn't take too long before we started to see some criticism of this new standard...Yes, another debate on binary XML is on its way.
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Presentation: Introduction to Component Based Architecture
Mark Miller provides an introduction to Component Based Architecture and its competitive advantages. First delivered at devLink, Mark covers the theory of Component Architecture and its effect on Developers, Customers and the software product itself.
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PMD: Automated source code analysis and bug detection
PMD, an open-source automated Java source code analysis and bug detection tool, recently reached version 4.0. InfoQ spoke with Tom Copeland, PMD project lead, to learn more about PMD and what capabilities it provides.
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Rubinius Internals: Threading, ObjectSpace, Debugging
We continue the interview with Rubinius creator Evan Phoenix and talk about internals of how the VM uses bytecode manipulation for fast debugging, problems of implementing ObjectSpace and Threading.