Oct 28 2009 8:41PM GMT
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
cloud computing,
REST
Before there was cloud computing, there was grid computing. Instead of sending your jobs to the cloud, you’d send them to the grid. Instead of provisioning big banks of on-premise computers to do your calculations, you’d send them to the grid.
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Oct 28 2009 7:32PM GMT
Posted by: Rob Barry
This week WSO2 announced a release of its Web Services Framework for C++. This will allow developers to integrate existing C++ applications and SOA infrastructures with the company’s open-source framework.
Some of the features include the Codegen Plug-in Wizard for Eclipse, sport for the WS-* stack, SOAP messaging for Web services and clients and a host of supported platforms.
More on WSF/C++
Oct 27 2009 3:26PM GMT
Posted by: Mike Pontacoloni
by Jack Vaughan
Word of the next version of Visual Studio brought as well the news that Microsoft was planning to offer its core Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server product to all Visual Studio users.
This appears to end the divergence of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System. In its own terms, Microsoft has ‘’simplified the product lineup” for Visual Studio 2010. There are three basic versions expected: VS 2010 Ultimate, VS 2010 Premium and VS Professional. All are offered along with MSDN services. Visual Team Foundation Server is offered with all VS versions. But the server version of Visual Studio known as Visual Studio Team system is going away. Continued »
Oct 26 2009 8:46PM GMT
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Data integration,
.NET
Two big industry players whose paths cross in strange ways are Microsoft and Oracle. They may support each others tools and data bases, but they don’t always keep the course as different products go into different revs.
A recent example of this is the ADO.NET Entity Framework… Continued »
Oct 26 2009 4:22PM GMT
Posted by: Mike Pontacoloni
by Rob Barry
A group of SOA experts released a SOA Manifesto on Oct. 23, which sets out in 106 words the principles they feel are most important to the popular integration strategy. While some may think of SOA as something like Enterprise Architecture, and others, agile development, the SOA manifesto walks a middle road.
Several industry thought-leaders have signed the document, including Grady Booch, Toufic Boubez, Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes.
The manifesto frames SOA as something that should focus on business objectives while remaining agile and interoperable. Some of the major priorities it lays out are:
- Business value over technical strategy
- Shared services over specific-purpose implementations
- Flexibility over optimization
- Evolutionary refinement over pursuit of initial perfection
This is all very reminiscent of the Agile Manifesto, which hit the scene in 2001. It sets forward a basic set choices between conflicting principals.
The lines in the sand have been drawn. What do you think? Leave us a comment.
Oct 23 2009 7:04PM GMT
Posted by: Rob Barry
At the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Summit in Seattle early in October, programming guru Ted Neward gave a talk on how “the next five years will be about languages.” Though Java has been in a dominant position for many years now, Neward said languages will need to evolve to adapt to new processor architectures.
“Intel came up against a bottleneck that even they couldn’t beat,” said Neward, “the speed of light. Get used to programs running at 2 gigahertz guys, because they’re never getting faster.” Continued »
Oct 23 2009 3:11PM GMT
Posted by: Rob Barry
Building an Enterprise Architecture means taking a holistic look at enterprise communication and systems, but what will the tools look like? Even info systems guru Leon Kappelman said he is not certain of that – or even if the concept will wind up being called EA in the long run.
But one thing is for sure. Modern companies have grown so complex and multi-dimensional that even IT can have a tough time keeping track of everything. In this environment, operating without a solid, enterprise-wide perspective greatly increases the risk of inflexibility and oversight. This, Kappelman said, is the sort of thing that drove Wall Street into recession over the past few years.
Early process modeling enabled great progress in the industrial revolution. Could the agility EA offers drive the next business revolution?
Oct 20 2009 6:25PM GMT
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
cloud computing,
Microsoft
By Rob Barry
Ahead of its anticipated formal unveiling of the Azure cloud platform at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) next month, Microsoft is firming up tool and platform details on its version of cloud architecture. Continued »
