Architecture

WSOAC#22 - Progressive = Aquisition?!!

Mike Kavis -SOA Security - Why are bloggers not talking about this?

Dare Obasanjo on the Powerset aquisition by  Microsoft -Is the Semantic Web Really the Next Frontier in Search Engine Technology?

ZapThink - The Buckaroo Banzai Effect: Location Independence, Service-Oriented Architecture, and the Cloud

Amazon WebServices Editor wants AWS Architecture Blog Posts & Diagrams

J.D. Meier - Designing an Authentication and Authorization Strategy
Jack van Hoof - Business versus technology

Jim Webber - Harvard Business Review: Guerrilla-ish SOA
Strategic Use of IT blog

• Yogish Pai on the service lifecycle IT Engagement Model
• Ashok Kumar -SOA and Outsourcing

Steve Jones - Google App Engine performance - Part 1,  Part 2, Part 3

Stu Charlton - RESTful Design Guidelines

Todd Biske - Integration Competency Centers and SOA

In other interesting news and releases

WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) v1.7 released!

GigaSpaces XAP - Now on Amazon EC2

Hub Vandervoort from the SOA infrastucture blog  on the IONA aquisition by Progress Software which also aquired Mindreef. Seems like a SOA acquisition week!

Michael Arrington - MySpace Opens Up The Data Pipe With Full Launch Of Data Availability

WSDAC#9 - Command line DSL the ultimate!

Martin Fowler -Agile Versus Lean

Microsoft Research -Tool: Pex - Program EXploration a white-box test generation tool
Greg Duncan - Scrum Sprint 1, Week 2 in the scrum series, Free - Foundations of Programming eBook
Jeff Atwood - Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems
Nick Malik -Phillippe Krutchen ‘reinterpretation’ the Tao Te Ching of Lao-Tsu for Software Architects,  Blame the Computer: A Business Process Modeling Anti-pattern
Software Engieering Radio -Episode 102: Relational Databases
Ted Neward - The ultimate thin client

Technorati tags: softwaredevelopment, soa

WMOC#9 - Lamdas and extension method scoping

Oren Eini - Batching WCF Calls, NMemcached: An experiment to try and develop memcached using WCF

Charlie Calvert - On how Extension Methods work and are Scoped, Lambdas, and anonymous delegates and method signatures

Mary Jo Foley - Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?
Nicholas Allen - JSON Serialization and its impact on Service Speed, Repairing the 3.5 framework using command line tools, Tool : PInvoke Interop Assistant
Ron Jacobs - Locking in SqlWorkflowPersistenceService, Using Windows Workflow with WCF on a Load Balanced Server Farm
Sam Gentile - Capital Area .NET UG Presntation in  Virginia/Washington

Scott Hanselman -

• Hanselminutes Podcast 119 - What Is Done? with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber,
• Implementing HTTP File Upload with ASP.NET MVC including Tests and Mocks, 
• NotNorthwind - Update #1 - All Your Northwind Are Belong To Us,
• Is var the same as Dim in VB?

Udi Dahan - On why Object Relational Mapping Sucks!

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

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

WSOAC#21 - Service Design

Strategic Use of Information Technology (SUIT) blog - Key Best Practices - What is Service Orientation?,  Explaining the terms “Services-Oriented Architecture”, Web 2.0 in the space of Commerce, Web 2.0 – The Real Power ?

Via Stefan Tilkov -

Webifying Integrated Development Environments

Interviewing Mark Little

SOA Infrastructure blog asks Are You Ready for Event-Driven Business?

Stu Charlton Cloud Cafe Podcast, On effective architectures for enterprise IT

Dave Linthicum on Service design? Think of the three “S”es, SOA Lite?, Service externalization is not easy

Mike Kavis - SOA and the Human Side of Change, The future is in the Clouds

Udi Dahan on long running transactions Sagas Solve Stupid Transaction Timeouts, [Podcast] Highly Scalable Web Architectures, Rant: WCF Defaults Limit Concurrency/Scalability

Kyle Gabhart on Service Design - Are You A SOA Poser or a Com-Poser?

Jack Van Hoof links to interesting videos  on Which ESB do you choose?, Do you recognize the cloud trend?

Steve Jones on Google App Engine - Quota limits

Other interesting news

JBoss Releases on Amazon EC2 JBoss Releases on Amazon EC2

Mary Jo Foley - Gates hints about Microsoft’s cloud futures on his way out

Intel enables SOA without ESB

Amazon’s cloud goes dull - on amazons downtime last week

Simon Guest points to Microsoft resources for Platform services

On how to land at job in Amazon  Welcome to our new Evangelist in Europe!

Java Exchange Connector and EWSJ connects java applications to exchange via web services

TechCrunch - Get Ready For A New Platform War. Google Gears Drives Straight At Microsoft’s Profits.

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

WMOC#8 - Functional programming in c#

Nicholas Allen on all things WCF - Security Session Inactivity, Mapping Client Certificates, How WebServiceHost Works, Serializing XML to XML, Serialization Temporary Assemblies, Other Technologies You Might Find Interesting, Acting on Open event

Jeff Atwood -  and his take on Declaration Redundancy Department and using the “var” keyword in C#

Phil Haack on Delegating Decorators, Everything You Wanted To Know About MVC and MVP But Were Afraid To Ask

Kirk Evans - Hosting WCF in SharePoint

Bart De Smet - LINQ to MSI - Part 2 - Queryable without an I

Mike Taulty - Parallel Extensions for .NET, IUpdatable on LINQ to SQL

Mathew Podwysocki - Concurrency in .NET - Learning from Erlang, Functional C# - Learn from F# and LINQ

Dare Obasanjo on Functional Programming in C# 3.0: How Map/Reduce/Filter can Rock your World

Simon Guest on Rewriting URLs on IIS5, IIS6, or IIS7 (mod_rewrite on IIS?), On Architecture at Microsoft

Charlie Calvert says Cut Development Time: Use LINQ

Frans Bouma - Linq to LLBLGen Pro: feature highlights, part 1 - interesting insights into LINQ development

Oren Eini on his design process

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - Rants saying WCF Defaults Limit Concurrency/Scalability

WCF Unity - Dependency injection in WCF

Mary Jo Foley - Gates hints about Microsoft’s cloud futures on his way out

Scott Hanselman - Back to Basics - Life After If, For and Switch - Like, a Data Structures Reminder, Hanselminutes Podcasts - Rediscovering Your Passion for Software, Sorting out Internationalization with Michael Kaplan

Channel 9

Code to Live: Dancing in the Moonlight with Miguel de Icaza

C9 Bytes: Alex Turner showing the evolution of C#,

How Movies and Video Games are Made With Motion Capture at Motus

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

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

WSDAC#8 - MVP MVC and everything in-between

Stefan Tilkov Fan, Niclas Nilsson on Scala and Erlang, Ruby: DSL for Writing Programs

Scott Hanselman - The Weekly Source Code 29 - Ruby and Shoes and the First Ruby Virus

Martin Fowler on Caching and segmentation, Refactoring HTML is published

Software Engineering Radio - Episode 101: Andreas Zeller on Debugging

Nick Malik asks Common vocabulary: Blessing or Curse?, The Usefulness of the Use Case?

Jeff Atwood on The Ultimate Code Kata, Don’t Go Dark

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - Code Readability: Documentation vs. Refactoring

Dare Obasanjo on Dark Launches, Gradual Ramps and Isolation: Testing the Scalability of New Features on your Web Site, Functional Programming in C# 3.0: How Map/Reduce/Filter can Rock your World

Steve Yegge - Done, and Gets Things Smart

Simon Guest on  Open Source and Interoperability, ArCast.TV - Simon Guest on Architecture at Microsoft

Via Chris Alcock

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) at a Glance - Sidar Ok explores the Managed Extensibility Framework CTP, working through the initial stages of getting things working as intended.

Immutability and Concurrency – Part II – A Review of F#’s Immutable Data Structures - Rob Pickering looks at the support in F# for working with Immutable data in part two of his series on Immutability and concurrency.

Phil Haack Everything You Wanted To Know About MVC and MVP But Were Afraid To Ask

Technorati tags: softwaredevelopment, soa, architecture

WSDAC#7 - SCRUM in 90 minutes

Jonathan Weiss on Rails Patterns - Via Stephan Tilkov

Slides from our Software Architect 2008 sessions

Jeff Atwood on Tim Brays Wide Finder Project

Simulated Annealing - Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP)

Martin Fowler on SyntacticNoise in DSL’s

PyShards a sharding toolkit for Python

FaceStat’s Rousing Tale of Scaling Woe and Wisdom Won - On how being linked on Digg/yahoo and the likes can cause burst in traffic that one is not equipped to handle.

Udi Dahan on Composite applications, “Prism” and Occasionally Connected architectures

In an all-roads-lead-to-twitter-architecture-problems, Todd Hoffs - Duct Tape & Bailing Wire as Architecture Eventually Fails

Steve Jones on Learning Python and google AppEngine

Software Engineering Radio - Episode 100: Software in Space

Via Jason Haley

Greg Duncan - Scrum in 90 Minutes – The Presentation

Scrum Day [Subscript out of range] – Time for a minor reset, I’m pushing back the Sprint Planning Meeting by a week…

Via Alvin Ashcrafts Dew Drop

• More on Quality (Chad Myers)
• My Issues with the Term “Scrum Master” (Joe Ocampo)
• Duct Tape & Bailing Wire as Architecture Eventually Fails (Bob McIlree)

SUIT - This is what EA teams do best, Legacy Business Processes and Business Architecture

Nick Malik analyses functions of an enterprise architect One EA Team, Three EA Functions

A concrete example of The Dynamic Language Advantage

Notes from Teched - Architecture Modeling in Rosario with Peter Provost

Casey Charlton - The Language of Mocks (or is that Test Doubles)

Technorati tags: softwaredevelopment, soa

WMOC#8 - More BabySmash!

An example on how to write Transactional Web Services with WS-AtomicTransaction -

Northwind N-Tier Blueprint Application Using WPF/WCF/LINQ to SQL

WCF .svc item templates for ASP.NET hosted apps - Useful to create no frills services using new item templates

Do you need a composite transport for WCF?  - Christian Weyer asks if there is a need for services that dont have the same transport for request and response

Sam Gentile New and Notable 247 , 248,  SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 8 of N, SOA: Making The Paradigm Shift Part 9 of N

Web Service Webcasts in June - Nicholas Allen

Dare Obasanjo looks at Some Thoughts on Joel Spolsky’s Live Mesh Rant

Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype

Are all (Microsoft and Apple) sync services created equal? - Comparing MobileMe and Microsoft Sync Services

Describing RESTful services using WSDL 2.0 - Jesus Rodriguez

News and other interesting reads

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available plus Refreshed Screencasts

WCF at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta

Inside Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Communications as a Service (CaaS)

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Services: ClientAccessPolicy file may need to be modified

Scott Hanselman continues his “Learning WPF with BabySmash” series : Factories, Interfaces, Delegates and Lambdas, oh my!, Pushing things up a level with another set of eyes

LLBLGen Pro v2.6 has been released! (Interesting series on building a LINQ provider)

CLR Inside Out: Large Object Heap Uncovered

Steven Smith : Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Talk

Functional C# - Unfolding Lists

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

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

WSOAC#21 - REST or WS-* on mars?

REST on Mars - scaling the problem to make a point - An interesting comparison between SOA style vs the REST style to solve the problem.

Interview with Stephan Tilkov on REST - Software Engineering Podcast

Dare Obasanjo reviews the design of NewsGator’s REST API

Ganesh proposes the Orwellian Truths of SOA Part - 1, Part - 2

Dave Linthicum on How to sell SOA (Part I), How to sell SOA (Part II), BPEL Falling?

Kyle Gabhart - Service Oriented Dinosaurs, on the obstacles in the evolution of SOA.

Jack Van Hoof says Ripping off services layers is a bad idea and how not to justify an SOA and ESB…

Interesting Podcasts at Channel 9

WCF at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta

Communications as a Service (CaaS)

CaaS Conceptual Architecture

Jim Webber Guerrilla SOA Interview, Internet-as-Operating System? No, but I’ll buy into Web-as-Middleware, Enterprise Manboobs at InfoQ, which Jeff Schnier calls “the Worst SOA Presentation I’ve Ever Seen“

Joe McKendrik says You have SOA answers; we have how much do you know about SOA? questions

Sun and SOA: Too much Java and not enough open source?

Michael Meehan - Having trouble with SOA? Pay attention to the architecture

Series of articles from Strategy Use of IT blog - Semantics in the realm of SOA and Services, This is what EA teams do best - mapping business needs to IT deliverables, Business Architecture (Business Design) - some interesting anecdotes, Vendor need to adopt “Common Sense” Strategy, Enterprise Service Bus vs. Service Component Architecture, Why you need a stated “service versioning policy”?

Jesus Rodriguez  - examines the good and the bad of Describing RESTful services using WSDL 2.0

Thomas Erl - Service-orientation and object-orientation part I: A comparison of goals and concepts

SOA Governance tool from SOA Software for Microsoft .NET Framework - via Architects Rule!, In OSLO news Bill Gates shakes up SOA - Oslo embraces UML, Microsoft signs onto Unified Modeling Language for SOA

In cloud computing news Aptana Cloud: A sneak peak, Eucalyptus - Build Your Own Private EC2 Cloud

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

WSOAC#20:Jeff Bezos talks about amazon web services

Steve Vinoski on the need or the lack of creating new frameworks and tools for RPC
Burc Oral Gorillazation of SOA, on why SOA need not be as complicated as its made out to be.
Loraine Lawson asks Already Got an ESB?, what you need to know about implementing an SOA if you have one
Stu Charlton - Specifying a cloud computer
About Amazon web services and The Emerging Cloud Service Architecture and Jeff Bezos Talks about Amazon Web Services
Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software for the consumer/end user but from a different perspective from a cloud service provider whats also important is the economy of non-scale
Sam Gentile New and Notable 246 and a new series on SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, and a bonus Note

Interesting announcements
Google’s Panoramio Launches Photosynth-like Flythroughs
Yahoo Opens Address Books to 3rd-Party Developers

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