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Is object-orientation dead in the presence of service-oriented architecture? I just talked with a respected practitioner and author in our industry about future directions and advanced topics; he thinks that we as industry still need to understand...

Among SOA benefits there is a re-positioning of original intent, purposes and scope of object–oriented techniques. Consider the structure below, look at it as the internal structure of a service in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The scope of object...

It is very good to read how people using agile methods are helping with otherwise bad problems: Big IT, Doomed Comes to mind the excellent lecture by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.: "The Design of Design" Turing Award address at SIGGRAPH '00, (July 2000...

I have been reading some manuscripts of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra. He said several years ago that the nature of the programming task implies a sound background on mathematics and applied logic in order to programmers do a really good job. Take note,...

Whereas software development practice still shows broad range of singularities, spanning from science and engineering to art and craftsmanship preventing a single classification, there is an aspect of software development as an engineering discipline...

Thinking about software development industry, my previous post about Grand Challenges for software development and this other past post: Job security http://blogs.msdn.com/marcod/archive/2004/02/26/80609.aspx Bring to mind the following...

Professor C.A.R. Hoare and other researchers have put together a list of challenges to computer science research for the years to come: Computing needs a Grand Challenge http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/14/grand_challenge_compsci/ http...

Subtitle: Software Development Methodology – The universal elixir (supposedly) By now, perhaps it is clear that software should be written following a disciplined software method. Most likely, this is a tremendous assumption and the industry...