May, 2008

Weekly SOA crumbs #19

Jon Udell explains why Live Mesh is a software “above the level of a single device” Elsewhere Daniel Cazzulino uses Mesh to synchronize KML files through FeedSync.

About Resource-Oriented Architecture and designing inference and the REST interface

Microsoft and Web 2.0 Resources via Kirk Allen Evans

Douglas Purdy with the bits for syncing current itunes song and last imported photos to FriendFeed

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 245Udi Dahan with the TechEd Israel Wrap Up links to presentation on Designing High Performance Persistent Domain Models, and How to avoid a Failed SOA

Dare Obasanjo Having the Right Users is More Important than Having the Right Features, speaking of users Robert Scoble asks should services charge “super users”? and Dare explores Single Instance Storage as a solution to Twitter’s performace woes.

Browser Storage Support seems to be getting traction, and in a related post Dare Obasanjo thinks Google gears is the next flash

In other news
Windows Live Agents SDK, version 5.0 released
RESTful bindings for workflow XML (WfXML-R) has been accepted by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) via Stefan Tilkov
Software Engineering Radio - Episode 98: Stefan Tilkov on REST

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, REST

Weekly microsoft oriented crumbs #6 - ASP.net MVC Preview 3

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 is out, find the videos here. Also an interesting articles on ASP.NET Application Life Cycle, and When does Declarative Data Binding Happen?

Joni Moilanen analyzes the microsoft job postings to predict the future of .NET, Visual Studio and more

Jon Udell explains why Live Mesh is a software “above the level of a single device” Elsewhere Daniel Cazzulino uses Mesh to synchronize KML files through FeedSync.

Mike Taulty looks deeper at ADO.NET Data Services Authenticating, Batching, Concurrency in action, In a somewhat related post Dare says

Finally, I think it’s been especially cool that members of the AtomPub community are seeing positive participation from Microsoft, thanks to the folks on the Astoria team who are building ADO.NET Data Services

Nicholas Allen on Finding the Service Instance
Kirk Allen Evans points to Microsoft and Web 2.0 Resources

After Simplifying the WPF TreeView by Using the ViewModel Pattern Josh Smith figures its much simpler using ‘yield’

Aaron Skonnards article on BizTalk Services

Joseph Ferner - How to make your LINQ span the globe, linq extensions that make a link query run on multiple machines
Dan Rigsby - Extending WCF InstanceContext to store custom state, WCF Metadata

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, .net, REST, WCF

Weekly microsoft oriented crumbs #5 - Its memorial day!

Oren Eini on Rhino Mocks - Arrange, Act, Assert Syntax, speaking of which Daniel Cazzulino comes up with a A practical example on how to mock static classes without TypeMock

Charlie Calvert - VCS Team Links for May 22, 2008

Nicholas Allen - Customizing Proxy Configuration, Pointing to External Metadata, Avoid Exceptions in Faults

Eric Lippert - Mutating Readonly Structs

Christian Weyer on a domain-specific language for using WCF

Jon Skeet -  Mandelbrot revisited - benchmark edition

Sam Gentile - Topic Networks: How Neuron ESB Implements Publish-Subscribe, New and Notable 241, 243, Announcing Neuron 2.0 General Release Distribution, Case Study, and SOA Software

Udi Dahan illustrates 7 Simple Questions for Service Selection

Frans Bouma on Why use the Entity Framework? Yeah, why exactly?

Matthew Podwysocki  Concurrency with Message Passing Interface (MPI) in .NET, NoVA Code Camp Wrapup and Thoughts

Dominick Baier - Two important Security changes in .NET 3.5 SP1, Avoid unhandled Exceptions in WCF Error Handlers

Aaron Skonnard - DataContracts without attributes (POCO support) in .NET 3.5 SP1, DataContracts and object references

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, .net, REST, WCF

Weekly SOA crumbs #18 : Its memorial day!

Rearden Commerce Goes Mobile via Techcrunch, considered a visionary in SOA ecommerce

Stefan Tilkov’s links Carlyle on REST Rewiring, Jim Webber defends against Bogus REST Claims

Jeff Atwood on OpenID: Does The World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password?
Dare Obasanjo on Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect and MySpace Data Availability

Jon Udell on Semi-structured database records for social tagging
Douglas Purdy on FriendFeed Sync as a platform

Cloud Programming Directly Feeds Cost Allocation Back into Software Design

Jim Webber - Notes from the Australian Architecture Forum

Steve Jones rails on people calling SOA Web Services “bloat”

Jack van Hoof - Mashups and Shadow IT, the next wave and a video on What is a Mashup?

Michael Meehan points to enterprises using SOA successfully

Udi Dahan illustrates 7 Simple Questions for Service Selection

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, REST

Weekly software development and architecture crumbs #5

Well its the long weekend…

IBM Devworks Article: Learn 10 good XML usage habits

Stefan Tilkov on Jeff Atwoods “XML Tax”, Dynamic Languages Strike Back, Martin Fowler’s Parser Fear, The Road to Babel - multi language support in java

InfoQ: Scalability Principles

Jeff Atwood on how to Crash Responsibly, Potential Markup and Editing Choices

Dare Obasanjo takes a look at the Availability Problems plaguing twitter, also in related post Twitter as a scalability case study

Ron Jacobs on Modeling Change

Nick Malik on Leaving technology out of requirements gathering, IT to Business: “I won’t read your mind”, How FEA handles Capability and Process Modeling

Ted Neward thinks Guide you, the Force should when it comes to dynamic language “wars”

Technorati tags: softwaredevelopment, soa

Weekly software development and architecture crumbs #4

Eric Lippert Covariance and Contravariance, Part Eleven: To infinity, but not beyond, Computers are dumb, Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Trivial Projections Are (Usually) Optimized Away

Steve Main points to Brian’s blog on F#

Innovation Notes From Jason Haley

The Beauty of Closures By Jon Skeet

Steve Vinoski The language debate continues

XML: The Angle Bracket Tax By Jef Atwood

Technorati tags: softwaredevelopment, soa

Weekly SOA crumbs #17: JavaOne week

Vittorio Bertocci writes about Claims propagation

Microsoft’s Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
Webber says Guerrilla SOA is working @ Google

Sam Gentile’s New and Notable 239, 240 and also On how to decouple client and services using Neuron ESB

David Linthicum says you can win with SOA if you follow these steps understand the pain, define the value, focus on understanding, remember the people, and finally, focus longer term

Jack van Hoof comments on cloud computing for market advantage, explains events and SaaS explained

David Chappell on State of SCA

Stefan Tilkov shares his Notes from Werner Vogels’s Keynote, at JavaOne, SPARQL Update to Complete RESTful SOA Scenario and links to an Ode to BEA

Free Tool Helps You Define Data Integration Needs, speaking of tools Is SOA the right tool for the right job?

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, REST

Weekly microsoft oriented crumbs #4: The betas are out

In Beta news Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 “SP1″ Beta. Should You Fear This Release? and ofcourse what it means for Service Developers

Nicholas Allen on Generating Types with Lists and Setting the Configuration Name

Eric Lippert Covariance and Contravariance, Part Eleven: To infinity, but not beyond, Computers are dumb, Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Trivial Projections Are (Usually) Optimized Away

J.D. Meier WCF Security Practices at a Glance Now Available

Ron Jacobs on on change management

Vittorio Bertocci writes about Claims propagation

Sam Gentile’s New and Notable 239, 240 and also On how to decouple client and services using Neuron ESB

Matthew Podwysocki takes on Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders, asks when your API Fails, Who fault is it? and explores concurrency in .NET

Scott Hanselman’s podcasts (if thats a verb!) on Spec# and The Weekly Source Code 26 and why and how to of creating TypeConverters

In other news
Microsoft’s Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
Phil Haack on DotNetRocks
Steve Main points to Brian’s blog on F#
Metadata - a Voice Crying in the Wilderness, Hey! I’m Over Here
Jon Skeet on The Beauty of Closures
Mike Taulty links to a way of Mocking LINQ to SQL

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, .net, REST, WCF

Weekly software development and architecture crumbs #3

JavaOne 2008: Day One report @ ServerSide.com

Another gem from Jeff Atwood on Understanding Model-View-Controller

Martin Fowler is wring a new Book on DSLs via Don Box

Paper: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

Steve Yegge on self-hosting languages via Stefan Tilkov

Steve Vinoski on why being a Multilingual programmer is important

And last but not the least Tom Hollander’s thoughts on being a Solution Architect

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

Technorati tags: softwaredevelopment, soa, architecture,

Weekly SOA crumbs #16: Links on Service orientation, cloud computing and ESB’s

Udi Dahan talk about the legacy application integration and SLAs, and links to a video of Messaging and Architecture Discussion at ALT.NET

Elswhere in cloud computing news Coding the Architecture talks about Elastic computing and how he thinks architects need to approach this new phenomenon And “Stu says” a what hes been working on has emerged in “cloud”

Sam Gentile gives a High Level View of the Neuron ESB Architecture

Scott Hanselman looks at - OpenID Edition in his “The Weekly Source Code” blog

David Chappell on Understanding Windows CardSpace

Ted Neward on what he thinks is wrong with “ESB”, Everything!!!!

Michael Meehan on the state of SOA in the Telecom industry

James Webber links to an article on why URI Templates considered harmful. Hes also spotted on the sets of DotNetRocks!

SOA Hot Topics Roundtable Podcast: Public Sector SOA

Technorati tags: soa, architecture, webServices, REST