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Software: Use At Your Own Risk
Chuck Allison?s interestin g article ?Software: Use At Your Own Risk?, (Better Software Magazine, Jul
Time for VMWare to change its pricing model
With their stock price falling VMWare needs to do something different to start rebuilding their comp
iPhone game in top 50!
I'm totally stoked to say that my Dot Game has made it into the top 50 of all games on the store!
Why the Web Dinosaurs Died
The Kaazing team recently got a Comet article published in the Jav aDeveloper 's Journal (JDJ June 200
WaveMaker Review
There are a number of tools out there which aspire to make building Rich Internet A pplication s easie
Gen Y, Social Media, and the Enterprise
Generation Y includes those in the age range 13 to 31. This is the largest generation ever, even su
JavaOne - Hits and misses
This years JavaOne was a not to be missed event. Here are my views on how the conference has changed
How much test coverage do you need? - The Testivus Answer
Referring to "The Way of Testivus" entry: http://www .artima.co m/weblogs/ viewpost.j sp?thread= 203994
Eclipse Web Tools on Safari


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Software: Use At Your Own Risk
Chuck Allison’s interesting article “Software: Use At Your Own Risk”, (Better Software Magazine, July/August 2008, p. 9) discusses the risk inherent in software licenses compared to other warranties, reasons for the lack of quality in software and li
More on ‘Best’ Practices & The Dreyfus Model With Dan North
Two of our recent blogs; The Misnomer of Best Practices and The Dreyfus Model are tied together nicely in this episode of Enerjy.tv by way of a conversation I had with Dan North of Thoughtworks. Dan regularly speaks and blogs about these topics and g
Eating The IT Elephant - Book Review
Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on various studies released over the last 5 years state as little as 30% of complex projects succeed. Although this number is climbing, very large projects (300 – 500 man ye
Involving The Team In Bug Fixing Shares Knowledge
A large part of improving the quality of software is knowledge sharing (indeed it is one of the basic tenets of Lean). In most organizations when a bug is submitted it is usually delegated to the developer who wrote the original code.  Paul Pagel’s
The Misnomer of Best Practices
One evening after sessions at the Better Software Conference, Dan North and I got into a discussion regarding the phrase ‘Best Practices’ and concluded that this term was actually a misnomer. Let’s take a non-software analogy; wearing a seat belt in
Glitch Watch - Gate change at ATL
So I was coming back from Atlanta yesterday and, as I arrived a bit early at the gate, settled in to read my RSS feeds. I picked a spot that was far enough away from the gate not to be too crowded, while at the same time allowing me to keep an eye o
The Dreyfus Model - Back In The Spotlight?
The Dreyfus Model shows the 5 stages of skill acquisition possible through experience of a subject. Created by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus in 1980 while researching AI, the model was popularized by Dr Patricia Benner in the mid Eighties in her work on
Glitch Watch - Locked out by software glitch
Residents living in a city-owned apartment complex in Nottingham, England, were locked out of their homes on Tuesday of this week after a new security system was installed. Property manager Nottingham City Homes was installing security upgrades, inc
Glitch Watch - Verizon published 12,500 unlisted numbers
Verizon blamed a software glitch this week for the fact that it published approximately 12,500 unlisted phone numbers in a Washington County, MD phone directory. The company stated that it is taking steps to make amends to affected customers, anywhe
Is Java Dying? - No Way!
After reading several blogs and comments on the demise of Java, I felt compelled to post some interesting facts. Only a small percentage of developers go to conferences like JavaOne. These people constitute the majority of those who read, write and
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SOA Feature Story: Real-Time SOA Starts with the Messaging Bus!
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote wrote: Regarding the previous comment about "TCP not lining up a message on one connection after a file transfer on another connection." and the "information in the article not being correct." This is true, but in order for this to occur you would need...
Carbonite Announces Virtualization Partnership Agreement with Lifeboat Distribution
Online Backup wrote: It's certainly an interesting solution for consumers new to Online Backup. Curious to see where this Carbonite deal goes.
Combined Share of SAP and Business Objects Lead the Expanding Business Intelligence Market
_Dog wrote: How BO can be first is SAS done first bilion couple years ago? This article just a marketing bla-bla.
An Introduction to Server Virtualization
Anurag wrote: Although KVM has a kernel component, it does not take the complete control of hardware. It uses most of the linux kernel services as scheduling, memory management etc. Where as all the hypervisor based products like Xen, Hyper-V and VMWare ESX, they take complet...
Best Practices for Building SOA Applications
vu tuan anh wrote: This is interesting article, I'd like it. Could you send me some SOA documents to my e-mail? Thanks alot.
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BREAKING SOA / WEB SERVICES NEWS
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Leveraging SCA for Standardizing the Composite Application Ecosystem
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SOA Issues Are People Issues...Not Technology
According to the Burton Group, the issues around SOA are not so much about technology and complexity
SOA: Preparing for Mashups
It's important to remember that there is a huge resource being created on the Web these days in term
Best Practices for SOA: Building a Data Services Layer
These days nearly every sizable organization has either implemented some form of SOA or has it on th
The Unreliable Internet
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SOA World Editorial - Discovering Dr. Dolittle
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SOA or DOA
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Mashups Accelerating and SOA Is Along for the Ride
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IBM Empowers Business Users with Customized Web 2.0 Software
IBM announced IBM Mashup Center will be hosted as a free trial on the Web with which non-technical b
SOA Governance vs SOA Management
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Virtualization - Cisco Reportedly Creates SOAP-Slipping RPC Protocol
According to CIO.com, Cisco has a new SOAP-replacing messaging protocol called Etch, born out of its
Timing the Market with Distributed Genetics
I've always been puzzled by the ability of some traders to consistently make money. A cynic would sa
Layer 7 Technologies Expands SOA Into Belgian Market
Layer 7 Technologies announced its go-to-market partnership with Steria Benelux. Steria will act as
SOA World - Growing an SOA Garden
Adopting SOA is a lot like gardening. It takes time, skill, a lot of hard work, and the process can
Long-Tail SOA and the Mythology of Re-Use
Not all services are created equal. It would be great if implementing SOA were simply a matter of ap
SOA World - SOA SDLC: On-Demand
Spending time with my parents over the holidays got me thinking about the differences between this g
SOA's Second Act: Dynamic Documents Top the Agenda
While SOA has traditionally had something of a data obsession. While the focus has been on service-e
A SOA Adaptation Strategy
Interoperability is the ability of two or more systems to work with each other. In the loosely coupl
Can Agile Development & Model-Driven Design Solve the Broken Delivery Process?
The software delivery process has long faced many challenges, many of which are exacerbated by the n
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