May 16 2008   10:05PM GMT

Weekly SOA crumbs #17: JavaOne week



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, SOA, WCF, Development, REST

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?

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May 16 2008   9:42PM GMT

Weekly microsoft oriented crumbs #4: The betas are out



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Development, LINQ, SOA, WCF

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

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May 9 2008   2:09AM GMT

Weekly software development and architecture crumbs #3



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Development, WebServices

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

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May 9 2008   1:59AM GMT

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



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Development, WebServices, REST

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

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May 9 2008   1:40AM GMT

Weekly microsoft oriented crumbs #3



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Development, LINQ, WCF, WebServices, REST

Still more “mesh” related news Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition — from Sun and Scoble on why Microsoft Live Mesh will fail with early adopters and elsewhere Microsoft’s Oslo connections begin to bud and more interesting Mesh links at Alvin Ashcraft’s post

Daniel Cazzulino looks at Live Mesh FeedSync protocol under the hood and Steve Clayton points to Live Mesh - First Look whitepaper

Vitorrio Bertocci lays out a coarse taxonomy for claim types

Sam Gentile with New and Notable 236, 237 and 238, Part 2 (Identity Management) and Part 3 (Claims Links) of SAML and Federated Identity, and a High Level View of the Neuron ESB Architecture, the WCF and SOA Enabler

Nicholas Allen points to Updates to WCF Security Guidance, Messaging Additions in Orcas, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Serialization of private data members, and news that TIBCO Announces WCF Integration

Dominik Baier points to Some Resources for P2P and WCF
J.D. Meier : 6 New patterns & practices WCF Security How Tos

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 25 - OpenID Edition

Udi links to a video of Messaging and Architecture Discussion at ALT.NET, speaking of which has an interesting post about making Spec# a Priority

April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight - ScottGu’s Blog

Interoperability Happens - Channel 9 Interview with Yours Ted Neward

Immutability and tail recursion

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

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Apr 30 2008   2:05AM GMT

Weekly software development & architecture crumbs #2



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Development

Simon guest on Why Architects should care about Robots and Marc Mercuri and Kyle Johns look Inside RoboChamps

An InfoQ Interview with Krzysztof Cwalina on Framework Design Studio

Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC

Oren Eini defends the Rhino Mocks API Design, and posts an article on building a Domain Specific Language on InfoQ

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

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Apr 30 2008   2:04AM GMT

Weekly microsoft oriented crumbs #2



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Development, LINQ, WCF, WebServices, REST

Microsoft Says Yes With Mesh - Steve Gilmores take on Live Mesh and a with talks to David Treadwell, VP of the Live Platform Services in his podcast

Robert Scoble with the early scoop Ray Ozzie delivers with Live Mesh

Videos explaining various pieces of the mesh Ori Amiga: Programming the Mesh, FeedSync: Synchronizing the Mesh

Dino Chiesa on Varying Content-Type according to the URL in a WCF REST Service

BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Announced, New and Notable 235 from Sam Gentile also a primer on SAML and Federated Identity

Nicholas Allen on WCF, WF, and BizTalk Sessions at TechEd, and Messaging Additions in Orcas

Books: We need more So What, Now What and What For? and less just What - Scott Hanselman On the type of books we need

Simon guest on Why Architects should care about Robots

An InfoQ Interview with Krzysztof Cwalina on Framework Design Studio

Kirk Allen Evans with a list of useful links on WCF, WCF, ADO.NET SyncServices, and ClickOnce and the second installment of Calling Web Services via AJAX

Community Convergence XLIII - Charlie Calvers Links on LINQ

Matthew Podwysocki with a Recap of Day 2 of the ALT.NET Open Spaces in Seattle

Another fun read from Jeff Atwood “Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC

More fun? check out the video Marc Mercuri and Kyle Johns: Inside RoboChamps and Simon Guest on Why Architects should care about Robots

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

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Apr 30 2008   1:44AM GMT

Weekly SOA crumbs #15: Have you seen the latest “mesh”up from Microsoft?



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, WCF, WebServices, REST

Microsoft Says Yes With Mesh - Steve Gilmores take on Live Mesh and also talks to David Treadwell, VP of the Live Platform Services in his podcast

Robert Scoble with the early scoop Ray Ozzie delivers with Live Mesh

Videos explaining various pieces of the mesh Ori Amiga: Programming the Mesh, FeedSync: Synchronizing the Mesh,

BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Announced, New and Notable 235 from Sam Gentile, also a primer on SAML and Federated Identity

Visual Cobol, Enterprise Processes, and SOA - UAnemic Service Model

Other interesting links
Bob Ippolito on Erlang
Dino Chiesa on Varying Content-Type according to the URL in a WCF REST Service

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

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Apr 22 2008   2:53AM GMT

Weekly Architecture Crumbs #1



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Development, WebServices

Measuring Maturity in BPM - Automation is the wrong answer - Nick Malik examines the Gartner maturity model for BPM

Evangelizing the Identity Metasystem in culture-conscious fashion - Vitorio on being culture sensitive while evangelizing the Identity Metasystem

Cloud Computing and Identity - About the enterprise, cloud computing and how it relates to Identity

The PDF of Chapter 2 is on MSDN - Understanding Cardspaces

Cloud Platform Services: A Simple Taxonomy - Dave Chappell classifies cloud computing platforms

Scalability Article up on InfoQ - Udi Dahan with ideas on service design for scalability

Big Blue sMashes into Web 2.0 - On IBM’s launch of mashup server

Interview with Dan Diephouse - Via Stefan Tilkov, Interview on benefits of Atom/AtomPub

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

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