November, 2004

To be presented on Frday (12/3) morning. Sign up here . Here is the abstract: Myriad regulatory compliance challenges such as the Sarbanes-Oxley act, HIPAA, the Basel II accords, and the USA PATRIOT act now face enterprises around the world. As agencies...

Andrés G Vettori just posted another WS-ReliableMessaging implementation on WSE 2.0. He's also made the code available to anyone that wants it. Have a look - just be aware that the spec on which this was built is still subject to change.

Podcasting is to radio what Tivo is to television. Even better, the content tends to be far more interesting - think Newsgroups on talk radio and that's Podcasting. As cool as it is, the name is a real detriment. This is not an iPod only thing. I use...

I just received an email from Yuichiro Russell. an old (self-described) "code monkey" friend. He had one of the best sigs I've seen in a while: "There are only 10 types of people in this world; those who understand binary and those who don't."

Whitehorse and Yukon are product code names for the graphical designer in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 . Today I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Whitehorse, Yukon is a real city . Stephen Downes posted some great photos from a recent...

SOA is like that old fable from India about the blind men and the elephant - everyone describes it a bit differently (analyst definitions are omitted because I want to focus on implementations, not forecasts or speculations): To IBM SOA appears to be...

Jorgen Thyme, a .NET architect out of Denmark, recently forwarded a painfully humorous email: Dear Mr. Architect, Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere...

A beta of the new MSN Search tool is now available . The current index is over 5 billion pages. Cached search results (much like you may have seen at Google) are also provided. So what's different? Check out the "Near Me" button. The Near Me button enables...

Amazon just announced their Simple Queue Service (hereafter referred to as SQS). SQS is a simple, hosted queuing service for buffering messages between distributed application components. Amazon is clearly becoming a platform company (much like Google...

I did a webcast this morning with Ron Jacobs ( PAG ), Alex Weinert ( Indigo ) and Ted Neward (Author, Speaker, All Around Geek). The topic was "Patterns for SOA" and used an informal "talk show" format. Here is the description of the session: "Service...