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Oct 10 2008   1:30AM GMT

WSDAC#22 - A Fresh Look At Google Gears over at Myspace

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, f#, governance, cloud computing, agile, algorithms, scalability, Languages, Patterns, wsdac

Niall Kennedy -Better Design Through Code

Stefan Tilkov -  Ioke is a strongly typed, extremely dynamic, prototype based object oriented language

Bob McIlree - Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #12 - October 1, 2008

Camp Sean - Interview with Joseph Hill - Mono

High Scalability Blog

• Second Life Architecture - The Grid
• Paper: Scaling Genome Sequencing - Complete Genomics Technology Overview
• Paper: Scalability Design Patterns
• The Pattern Bible for Distributed Computing
• Scalability Worst Practices
• Is MapReduce going mainstream?
• Scalability for Startups: How to Grow Up without Blowing Up

J.D. Meier -

• Cheat Sheet: patterns & practices Catalog at a Glance Posted to CodePlex
• App Arch How Tos Posted to CodePlex

JonUdell - Scott Prevost explains Powerset’s hybrid approach to semantic search

Mark Hendrickson - A Fresh Look At Google Gear, a look at MySpace’s implementation of Gears, which has little to do with offline functionality, is a perfect example. 

NickMalik

• Alignment - the missing Viewpoint
• Extending Professional Software Architecture

Yogish Pai - Organization Skills assessment and Reference Architecture

Nuno Teixeira@nospam.com -Extreme Transaction Processing, Low Latency and Performance

Matthew Podwysocki - Object Oriented F# - Creating Classes

Steve Jones - We’re all going on an architecture hunt

Steve McConnell - New White Papers

SE-Radio -   Episode 113: Building Platforms with Jeff McAffer

Udi Dahan - Unit Testing for Developers and Managers

Alvin Ashcraft (Design and methodology links)

• Dew Drop – September 30, 2008 (Evening Edition)
• Dew Drop - October 6, 2008
• Dew Drop – October 1, 2008

Oct 10 2008   1:15AM GMT

WSOAC#35 - SOA anti-patterns, Governance (a catchup post)

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
governance, cloud computing, REST, SOA, WCF, Web services, oslo, Patterns, wsoac

Mike Kavis

• SOA skillsets: Part 1 - SOA Evangelist
• SOA skillsets: Part 2 - The Architects

Stefan Tilkov - JAOO 2008: REST Patterns and Antipatterns

Zap Think - Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audience

AWS Editor - Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows

Brenda Michelson - Synovus Financial’s SOA Success bigger than winning SVP initiative

Dan Foody - When do you need SOA governance?

Dave Laribee - .NET: Coming to a Cloud Near You

Dave Linthicum -

• Economic turmoil is changing businesses
• SOA Governance Technology Needs to Learn How to Share
• Doing SOA? Pay Attention to the Data
• What will we remember about SOA?
• Advocating the common data model — yet again

Ganesh Prasad - How SOFEA fits into a SOA Ecosystem

Jack van Hoof - EDA versus CEP (and SOA)

Jim Webber -

• When the facts change, I change my opinion
• How to GET a cup of coffee

Joe McKendrick -

• SOA, designed for turbulent times
• Analyst: SOA governance stymied by lack of standards
• Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals
• Silver lining 2: now may be the best time of all for SOA startups
• SOA soon part of the ‘cloud’? Hold that thought
• Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audience

JVaughan

• Look back at Oracle Open World 2008
• Microsoft’s muddled modeling: Getting the ducks in line

Kyle Gabhart -    Service Design - Intermediaries

Loraine Lawson -

• Writer Identifies Eight Characteristics for SOA Success
• How the Best-in-Class Manage SOA Governance
• Integration Plays Key Role in Winning SOA Deployment … Again
• Sifting Through the Myriad Integration Players
• SOA Gone Wrong

Nick Malik - Understanding Governance as Decision Rights

Yogish Pai - SOA Consortium announces SOA Case Study Winners

Rich Seeley - CEP opportunity in Wall Street bust?

Sam Gentile

• New and Notable 273
• Dublin Announced - Next Gen Windows Server and WCF/WF 4.0

Steve Jones

• DOA - antipattern
• My way or the highway - anti-pattern
• Boiling the SOAcean - anti-pattern
• Compromising for failure - anti-pattern
• Pink Floyd meets Frank Sinatra - anti-pattern

Todd Biske

• More on Decision Rights
• SOA Governance and Decision Rights
• Governance is not Optional

Todd Hoff - Joyent - Cloud Computing Built on Accelerators

Oct 2 2008   2:24AM GMT

WSOAC#34 - On Modeling state in web services

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Design, governance, cloud computing, Development, REST, SOA, Web services, Patterns, wsoac

Stu Charleton - Modeling State, Ignoring Transitions

Stefan Tilkov’s - Notes from JAOO 2008: Ian Robinson on RESTful Enterprise development
Zap Think

• Oracle to put Fusion middleware in Amazon Compute Cloud
• Experts to Hash out SOA Governance Best Practices at ebizQ’s Virtual Conference

Mike Kavis - SOA and Change
Brenda Michelson - CIO Magazine | SOA Consortium Case Study Contest: And the winners are…
Dave Linthicum

• Burton Group: ‘SOA is not a solution that comes in a tidy little box’
• Why metadata matters for SOA: Part II
• Five reasons to start a SOA technology company now

Steve Jones

• SOA Anti-patterns revisted - Part 1
• ADHD SOA - Anti-pattern
• Selling SOA
• Yes Sir, No Sir, three service views full sir! - Anti-pattern
• DOA your SOA?

Todd Biske - The Four Processes of SOA Governance
Todd Hoff - Is your cloud as scalable as you think it is?

Sep 26 2008   2:04AM GMT

WSDAC#20 - Fowler on observed requirements in apps

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, cardspaces, Design, erlang, f#, framework, Development, Languages, Patterns, wsdac, algorithms

Martin Fowler - On Observed Requirement based on usage characteristics of applications

Arnon Rotem Gal-Oz -

• Architecture: It’s Always a Tradeoff
• What’s Up with Unit Testing? Part I

Ayende Rahien - Designing Erlang#

Camp Sean -Interview with Jim Grisanzio - Sr. Program Manager - OpenSolaris Infrastructure Engineering Team

Casey Charlton - Don’t Tell Me “How”, Tell me “What”

Justin Etheredge - It is BDUF, not DUF

FransBouma - Is BDUF really BDUF?

EricLippert - Vexing exceptions

Ian Cooper - Learning and craftsmanship

J.D. Meier

• Architecture Frame
• The Story of the Engineering Practices Frame
• App Types
• Key Software Trends
• patterns & practices Performance Engineering
• Top 100 Blogs for Software Development Managers

Jon Udell - Swim-lane visualization of security protocols, On googles single-sign-on for Google Apps

SOA Talk - MapReduce-driven DB alternatives sited

Kyle Baley - Resources on MVC vs. MVP and the differences between them

NickMalik

• There is nothing wrong with IEEE-1471, about viewpoints in architecture
• What do .Net Solution Architects need to know?
• Clarifying the Concept of Metadata
• EA Poster - The Business Functions of Enterprise Architecture
• Civil Engineering Analogy to Enterprise Architecture: Flawed

Phillipe Destoop - The business analyst vs. the enterprise architect

Scott Hanselman

• Back To Basics: Algorithms and Going Back To Virtual School
• The Weekly Source Code 33 - Microsoft Open Source inside Google Chrome

Other Link blogs
Alvin Ashcraft

• Dew Drop - September 21, 2008 (Design / Methodology Links)
• Dew Drop - September 17, 2008 (Design / Methodology / Testing/ Functional Programming)
  

Harry Pierson - Afternoon Coffee 174 (IronRuby/IronPython and F# news)

Sep 12 2008   3:40AM GMT

WSDAC#19 - Architecture Resource

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, cardspaces, Design, framework, Development, agile, DSL, Patterns, wsdac

Simon Brown

• The role of a hands-on software architect
• How much architecture is enough?

Dare Obasanjo

• The 3 Laws of Platform Adoption: Why Developers Choose Platforms and What it Means to You
• The New Browser Wars: The Best Features of the new Generation of Browsers

Ayende Rahien - Implementing generic natural language DSL

Sean Camp -Interview with Alexandre Julliard - Head of the Wine Project / CTO of CodeWeavers

Eugene Ciurana - Cascading: Simplifying Hadoop MapReduce Applications

J.D. Meier - Excellent links on architecture

• Patterns & practices Security Engineering
• Layers and Tiers
• Layers and Components
• Services Layer
• The Architecture Journal
• App Arch Meta-Frame
• Scenario Frames for Presentation, Business, Data, and Services

Jaibeer Malik - Agile Development: Balancing Individualism and Teamwork

Joe McKendrick - OMG, Microsoft joins OMG

Phillipe Destoop - Microsoft joins OMG

Jon Udell - On the RESTful access to the World Bank’s data the web of data

Mary Jo Foley - New Microsoft virtualization license lets hosters deliver third-party software as a service

NickMalik

• What do .Net Solution Architects need to know?
• Applying DDD to IT Management: First failure

Software Engineering Radio - Episode 109: eBay’s Architecture Principles with Randy Shoup

High Scalability Blog

• Disco is an open-source implementation of the MapReduce framework for distributed computing
• Guerrilla Capacity Planning and the Law of Universal Scalability

Tom Hollander - Application Architecture for .NET v2 - This time for real!

Udi Dahan - Integrated Simplicity - An interactive distributed system concepts map

Vittorio Bertocciro - Delegation, or traversing multilayer architectures

Alvin Ashcraft -Design / Methodology / Testing Links  - September 10, 2008

Aug 21 2008   4:19AM GMT

WSDAC#16 - Behind NBC’s Olympics Website

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Design, f#, framework, c#, SOA, DSL, Languages, Patterns, wsdac

Via Harry Pierson - Monads through pictures

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - Evolving Architectures: Architecture Retrospective

Ayende Rahien

• Multi Tenancy - Keep It Simple, REALLY Simple
• DSL Patterns - Multi File DSLs
• DSL Patterns - User Extensible Language

Bob McIlree - Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #11 - August 15, 2008 - Interesting architecture links

Brad Abrams - Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition Available today on Rough Cuts

J.D. Meier

• Software Methodologies at a Glance
• 10 Success Patterns for PMs

Matthew Podwysocki

• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code Redux
• Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Passing

Robert Scoble

• The most important Google Tool for businesses (that you probably have never used)
• Behind NBC’s Olympics Website

Steve Vinoski - You Have to Experience It - on having strong opinions without experience using a particular technology/methodology…

Ted Neward - The Never-Ending Debate of Specialist v. Generalist

Todd Hoff - Strategy: Serve Pre-generated Static Files Instead Of Dynamic Pages for performance

Via Stefan Tilkov - Interesting anecdote on Availability Enlightenment

Hanselminutes Podcast - jQuery with John Resig

Aug 13 2008   12:00PM GMT

WSDAC#15 - Art of gathering business requirements

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, framework, agile, c#, Languages, Patterns, wsdac

Steve Yegge - Business Requirements are BS! - very interesting read

Dare Obasanjo

• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Microsoft’s AutoPilot
• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Puppet

Ayende Rahien -

• Series on Patterns for Distributed Hash Tables
• Series on Multi Tenancy
  

Bart D’Smet

• C# 3.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection
• VB 9.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection

Dave Linthicum - A good enterprise architect should see blurry

High scalability site

• The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources
• Distributed Computing & Google Infrastructure

Harry Pierson -IronPython Beta 4 Released

Microsoft JobsBlog - Advice from technical leaders

Nick Malik -Merging EA Frameworks

Shivprasad Koirala

• UML Interview Questions Part 1
• Software Architecture Interview Questions Part 3 State Pattern, Stratergy pattern,Visitor pattern, Adapter and fly weight

Software Engineering Radio -Episode 106: Introduction to AOP

Todd Hoff

• Strategy: Drop Memcached, Add More MySQL Servers
• Strategy: Let Google and Yahoo Host Your Ajax Library - For Free

Aug 6 2008   2:54AM GMT

wmoc#14 - Framework designer tools and Oslo at the PDC

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, framework, Architecture, Design, f#, Development, c#, REST, WCF, Web services, Patterns, wmoc

Ayende Rahien - Thinking about Cloud Computing

Brad Abrams - New Tools for Framework Designers Published

Chris Sells - A list of Oslo talks at the PDC

Greg Duncan - WCF/Improving Web Services Security Guide Released

Harry Pierson - Has a series of posts on Monads

J.D. Meier - On Model-Driven Approaches to software development

Keith Brown -Better exception reporting in ASP.NET part 2

Nicholas Allen - On why System Types should not be a part of a services’ Metadata

Sam Gentile -Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Course and Jon’s REST Book, NYC

Scott Hanselman

• The Weekly Source Code 31- Single Instance WinForms and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
• Learning WPF with BabySmash - Manually Managing ClickOnce and some more Designer Goodness

Videos and Podcasts
Ron Jacobs - endpoint.tv - SOAP and REST a Perspective

Channel 9 -Service Oriented Modeling with Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna

Deepfriedbytes.com (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) -Episode 8: Behind the Scenes at Microsoft.com

Hanselminutes Podcast - Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder

RunAs Radio #69 - RunAs Radio #69 - Brian Randell Educates Us On Virtualization Services for Developers!

Channel9 - Visual Basic Language Design Meeting

Charlie Calvert - Video: New Error Checking Feature in Visual Studio Service Pack 1

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

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

Jul 30 2008   3:45AM GMT

WMOC#13 - REST Twitter Client With WCF

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, f#, agile, c#, LINQ, REST, Visual Basic, WCF, Web services, Languages, Patterns, wmoc

Dominick Baier - WCF Claims to “Zermatt” Claims Migration Story

Ayende Rahien

• Layered ‘Onion’ Architecture
• Some observations on saving to file
• Some finalizer pitfalls

Charlie Calvert

• Community Convergence XLV,
• Video: New Error Checking Feature in Visual Studio Service Pack 1
• LINQ Farm: More on the LINQ Aggregate Operators

Edward Bakker -Service Factory Contrib Project

Harry Pierson -Morning Coffee 171 - Languages related news roundup

J.D. Meier -Agile Guidance

Josh Smith -Improvements made to my MVVM commanding solution

Kirk Evans - Creating a REST Twitter Client With WCF

Nicholas Allen

• Web Address Filters
• WCF Debugger Visualization
• Help with Security Programming

Ron Jacobs - Endpoint.tv - Getting Control of the URI with RESTful WCF Services

Sam Gentile -New and Notable 256, 257, 258, 259,

Scott Hanselman

• Make your Website Mobile and iPhone Friendly - Add Home Screen iPhone Icons and Adjust the ViewPort,
• Learn How to use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series

Udi Dahan - NServiceBus Explanations

News and videos

Mary Jo Foley

• How will Microsoft spend its multicore millions?
• Ozzie foreshadows ‘Zurich’™ Microsoft’s elastic cloud
• Microsoft splits its Platforms & Services unit in two

Nik Cubrilovic -Mass Reorg at Microsoft Platforms & Services Division

Don Box -Microsoft Sponsors Apache Software Foundation!

Mike Taulty - Added (Updated) ADO.NET Data Services Videos to C9

Via Channel9 - Jasmine Park: SkyDriving User Experience, Visual Basic Language Design Meeting

Code Magazine - Visual Studio Platform and Extensibility
Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

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

Jul 30 2008   3:28AM GMT

WSOAC#26 - To ESB or not to ESB…

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, REST, WCF, Web services, Patterns, wsoac

Some interesting  links on whether an ESB is a good choice for an SOA or is it just another integration ‘wolf’ in a SOA ’sheep’s’ clothing.

Via Zapthink -Book Excerpt: Enabling Agile Business with SOA, Sun technologist: SOAP stack a ‘failure’

Dare Obasanjo -Some Thoughts on the Open Web Foundation, When REST Doesn’t Scale, XMPP to the Rescue?,  Knol : Google’s Assaulton Wikipedia

Stefan Tilkov - On Tim Brays comments on SOAP and the REST Hype

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - SOA Patterns: Chapter 2 for Free Download, REST presentation

Amazon Web Services - New features come to Amazon SimpleDB

Brenda Michelson - New SOA Consortium Podcast: David Butler on SOA Transformation

Dave Linthicum - Settling the ESB/Good SOA Argument, ESBs on trial?

Jon Bachman - Rage against the term ‘ESB’ not the need for Integration

Kirk Evans - Creating a REST Twitter Client With WCF

Kyle Gabhart - The “Service Oriented Architecture Field Guide for Executives” Book with excerpts, Service Design - Composite Schema

Michael Meehan - So how SOA are ESBs?

Miko Matsumura -ESB Hate Storm

Surekha Durvasula -Key Best Practices - REST Assured????

Yogish Pai -Mashup, WOA, SOA, SaaS, REST and the kitchen sink

Steve Vinoski - Spot On or “in a spot” depending on which side of the RPC/REST debate you are on

Udi Dahan -Time Dimension Necessary For Successful SOA Data Strategy, [Presentation] Intentions and Interfaces Online

Varsha Kharidaha - Build powerful Java Applications using SOA with New Book

Vasco Kollokian -Try to Stick to the Problem and Describe it Well

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 256