Harry Pierson – IronPython Nightly Builds are available

High Scalability Blog – 17 Distributed Systems and Web Scalability Resources

Jeff Atwood – Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes

NickMalik – An examination of the OMG Business Motivation Model

Todd Hoff – Paper: Sharding with Oracle Database

William Vambenepe

• A new SPIN on enriching a model with domain knowledge (constraints and inferences) – The point of this little background story is to describe the context in which I read this announcement from Holger Knublauch of TopQuadrant: the new version of their TopBraid Composer tool introduces SPIN, a way to complement OWL with a SPARQL-based constraint checking and inference mechanism.
• Announcing Xen Transcendent Memory project

Jason Haley – Interesting Finds: January 8, 2009 – Career related links

Alvin Ashcraft – Design/Methodologies Links

• Dew Drop – January 12, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 11, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 9, 2009

ZapThink – Link to David Linthicums article on Best of times for SOA architects

Dave Linthicum

• My conversation with MomentumSI’s Jeff Schneider
• My presentation at the Mitre Service-Oriented Architecture for E-Government Conference (audio and presentation)
• Dave speaks with John Musser from ProgrammableWeb.com
• Understanding the value of SOA in a ‘bad economy’

Jack van Hoof -On why Market does not understand EDA Clemens and all the others I listened to mention EDA and start talking about complex event processing; that is not architecture, that is technique.

Joe McKendrick

• Driving SOA through a lousy economy
• The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
• Peeling Back the Microsoft Oslo ‘Onion’

Loraine Lawson

• Oslo Refined: New Approach to Modeling Is Key Feature
• Understanding Integration And How It Can Help with SOA
• Red Hat Upgrades SOA Platform to Add Integration Support

Surekha Durvasula – Canonical Models and Services This blog explores the canonical request models that might be used to alter the behavior of enterprise services using search services as an example.

Yogish Pai -Comparing current financial crisis to SOA

Rich Seeley

• IBM re-architects SOA market strategy and focuses more on the business benefits of SOA rather than the technology
• Gartner cautions on Oracle middleware status, Oracle Fusion middleware is currently based on a group of product suites for SOA and BPM that are “assemblies of convenience,” argue Gartner analysts.

Sam Gentile -REST Programming with .NET 3.5 SP1 Slides and Code Posted

Todd Biske

• Explores the relationship between Policies and SOA Governance. Policies are the rules that, if followed, should lead to the desired behavior for an organization. In the case of the current financial crisis, economic policies are ones that should lead to the desired behavior of the economy.
• SOA Governance Book: Now Available

• Oracle acquires SOA management vendor
• Service Semiotics and the SOA Illusion
• Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?

Amazon web services

• Announcing the AWS Start-Up Challenge – Win $100,000 in Prizes
• SimpleDB Domain Metadata Spec – Your Input Needed
• Cloudbursting – Hybrid Application Hosting

Bob McIlree – On business analysts and enterprise architects and what they Collectively Bring to the Table

Dan Foody – WOA governance

Dave Linthicum

• SOA Governance Monday (Okay Tuesday): Design time, and the missing pieces, part II
• WOA, or whatever … Here’s some ‘detailed’ initial thinking

Joe McKendrick -

• Debate rages over SOA’s ‘cloudy’ future
• SOA adoption down from 2006: if so, why?
• Another view: do we spend too much time trying to sell SOA to the business?

Jon Udell – The continuum of access styles in the emerging Microsoft cloud

Loraine Lawson

• Seven Steps for Launching SOA — From the Real World
• Big and Small Cases for How SOA Helps Solve Integration

Nuno Teixeira – A RESTful Core, Part 3, Logical Level Programming

Philipe Destoop – Goldman Sachs: Cloud computing last item on priority list CxO?

Rich Seeley – XTP powers SOA

Todd Hoff – Useful Cloud Computing Blogs