A friend of mine alerted me to a course being put on in Redmond by PluralSight. For those of you who don’t know them, it is a small company founded by some of the top talent from DevelopMentor with a vision of creating a community within the .NET world...

I was in a conversation with one of my clients the other day when he casually asked me, “So what are your thoughts on the question of SOA vs. EDA?”. My blank, uncomprehending stare caused him to continue by explaining that representatives from a large...

It was a bright sunny afternoon in early January, the sun was shining in a blue sky with just the occasional puffy white cloud, the temperature was in the mid 70’s and all was well in my little world. I was on a back road to a little airstrip from which...

Of all the questions I get asked these days, the most often asked and most difficult to answer is perhaps “What is SOA?”. There are many reasons for this, principle amongst them being that Service Oriented Architecture is such a bad name. It isn’t really...