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Resource-Oriented Architecture: Resource Metadata
In this second article in the Resource-Oriented Architecture series, Brian Sletten discusses the benefits of REST, what constitutes a resource, associating metadata with a resource, the pitfalls of common models of resource metadata, SPARQL, RDF, expressing RDF facts, RDF triples, querying RDF, and sample RDF queries.
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mySOA: Agile, Governed and Sustainable
William El Kaim, Lead Architect at Carlson Wagonlit, provides a rare glimpse at all the choices, and the rationale behind them, he and his colleagues have made while building their organization's Service Oriented Architecture. How does your SOA compare? What will be the major evolutions in the next few years? How will the Cloud impact current SOAs?
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Google Go: A Primer
Google recently announced their new programming language, Go. It is designed to bring some of the advances of modern programming languages back down to the systems arena where C still dominates today. However, the language is still experimental and evolving. This primer will help explain the intricacies and structure of the Go language for those who are interested in learning more about it.
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Book Excerpt: Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
This is a book excerpt from Mike Cohn's new book "Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum". This article describes the primary adjustments individuals must make as they transition from traditional roles to Scrum. The focus is on how these roles change, rather than on a thorough description of each role.
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Agile Teamwork: The Leadership - Self-management Dilemma
Self-managed teams are unstable and are successful when the ‘Leadership – Self-Management’ dilemma is understood and dealt with. Too much central control destroys agility, inhibits creativity and resists change. Too much self-management leads to chaos and anarchy and destroys a team. A successful Agile Team operates as far along self-management as it can, without tipping over into chaos.
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DSL Evolution
In this article, author Peter Bell discusses the best practices on how to evolve the DSLs using techniques like backwards compatibility through versioning, to automated transformation of statements.
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Book Excerpt and Interview: Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility
Boris Lublinsky interviews Marc Fiammante as part of a review of Marc' new book, Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility. The book is based on many years of practical experience obtained during dozens of enterprise SOA implementations and covers major steps of such implementations
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SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility
The chapter presented in this article, Governing the Service Factory, of the book "SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility" offers practical advice on governing such a Service Factory including a case study and guidelines for defining, developing, testing, deploying and operating services and business processes.
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An Intro to the Model-View-Controller in MonoTouch
The Model-View-Controller pattern is essential to iPhone development with the MonoTouch framework. Building on our earlier article, Bryan Costanich introduces the MVC framework and shows how it can be used to develop more complex iPhone applications.
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Modular Java: Declarative Modularity
The fourth of the Modular Java series covers declarative modularity. It describes how components can be declaratively defined and wired together, without having a code dependency on OSGi APIs. Declarative services will be used to write POJOs together dynamically, such that code no longer needs to explicitly register or consume OSGi services, and without any start ordering dependencies.
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Scrum And Strategy
If Scrum is all about short term, how then do the strategy folks work in such an ecosystem? More importantly, how does it help business leaders make and live up to important commitments? Good questions, but there aren’t easy enough answers. Doesn’t all this make strategy and Scrum look like the two poles of a magnet, or even further – the two extremes of the planet?
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2009
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Turotials, Keynotes, Agility as a Craft, Architecture for the Architect, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Cool Stuff with Java, DSL in Practice, Emerging Languages, The Cloud: Platform or Utility, The Many Facets of Ruby, and many more!