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Data Services in SOA: Issues and Possible Solutions
Data Services are increasingly generating interest in Service Oriented Architectures. David Webber wrote an article detailing some of the difficulties to define contracts for AWS and some of the solutions using the Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM).
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Interview with Mads Kristensen of BlogEngine.NET
In the first we hope to be a series on .NET in the open source world, we interviewed Mads Kristensen of BlogEngine.NET. Mads discusses how a focus on simplicity and an avoidance of third-party dependencies differentiates his project from other ASP.NET based blog platforms.
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Does the rise of Service Oriented UI (SOUI) means the death of server-assisted MVC?
Nolan Wright thinks server-assisted MVC implementations are a thing of the past and that Services, Ajax and DHTML can greatly simplify the way we build web applications.
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Agile Meets Pragmatic Marketing
Pragmatic Marketing is a product management methodology for the technology industry which seeks to apply values and principles similar to those of agile software development. So what happens when the pragmatic marketers meet the agile developers?
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Is a picture always worth a thousand words?
<p>Is a picture always worth a thousand words?</p> <p>In his recent article, “Why we write code and don’t just draw diagrams”, Dean Wampler argues that in software development the opposite is more often true. </p>
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Microsoft Releases Managed Services Engine (Repository)
The topic of virtualization has been heating up in the SOA space as more and more enterprises look for ways to harvest their existing IT assets towards new service infrastructure. Microsoft's recent silence on the issue has now made way for a community focused release of a meta-data driven service repository.
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InfoQ Presentation: Eric Evans on Domain Driven Design - Putting the Model to Work
Why bother with models? Eric Evans explains that the most critical complexity of most software projects is understanding the business domain itself. In this talk Evans talks about the foundations of Domain-Driven Design and how to make a domain model truly pull its weight and positively transform a project.
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Presentations of the BeJUG SOA Conference available on parleys.com
The videos of three talks at the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) Enterprise SOA'07 Conference have been published on parleys.com.
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Oslo: Microsoft Gets it but Hurry !
There has been few comments on Microsoft's Oslo announcement. In general they are positive but people are worried about the timeline and complexity of the project. Very few people commented on the in-the-cloud services that complement Oslo.
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Single Sign-On beyond the firewall
Taking a look at the challenges that lay ahead in the quest for Federated Identity Management.
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Lord Of The Rings: Web Style
Paul Downey has produced a Lord of the Rings style adventuring map for SOA, titled The Web Is Agreement.
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Enterprise SOA: End Of The Line?
Joe McKendrick, Jeff Schneider and others discuss whether or not enterprise SOA is dead on arrival and that perhaps pragmatic/geurilla SOA is the best approach after all.
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OOP: Thinking beyond verb/noun metaphor to yield a better design
In OOP, objects are traditionally coupled with actions that determine their behavior, implemented as objects’ methods. Reg Braithwaite argues that, in some cases, it may be relevant to dissociate the two. Traditional approach to OOP is also questioned by Buko Obele who advocates for going beyond the verb/noun metaphor that is often used to approach object oriented design.
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Microsoft Releases JavaScript Compatibility Study for IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari
Historically JavaScript compatibility has been a major problem for web developers. Variations between the official spec, the de-facto standard, and the various implementations have kept many a developer up all night. To address this, Microsoft has released a document detailing these incompatibilities in the four most popular browsers.
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A Comparative Clarification: Microformats vs. RDF
James Simmons posted on the Semantic Focus blog and Johannes la Poutré on the Squio blog had a web discussion on the differentiation between Microformats and RDF as they relate to the semantic web. While they both agree that RDF and Microformats are very different, they have a very different take on how that impacts their respective relevance to the semantic web.