Loosely Coupled Thinking

"Concept Typedefs", the Holy Grail of BPM and Closing the Gap Between Business and IT

jevdemon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:01:00 GMT

A typedef is a keyword in both C and C++ used to introduce new names for existing types. A simple typedef declaration lets you define your own names that can be used in place of type specifiers such as int, float, and double. Surprisingly, some people...(read more)

Strange Days Indeed

jevdemon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:56:00 GMT

Most peculiar mama (whoa)....(read more)

HBR on Susceptibility to Fads (like SOA)

jevdemon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:28:00 GMT

The December issue of the Harvard Business Review contains a compelling article on "Why You Shouldn't Go Global" ( excerpeted here for free ). While the article is worth reading, a sidebar in the article raises some excellent points which we might be...(read more)

Moving the SOA Goalposts

jevdemon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:13:00 GMT

SOA is about loosely coupled system integration . Sorry, I meant to say that SOA is about enabling loosely coupled business processes . On the other hand SOA is about reuse , except that its actually not about reuse . Hang on a minute, SOA is like event...(read more)

Getting User Context in Silverlight 2

jevdemon — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:54:00 GMT

I recently completed work on an internal Silverlight app. The project was a blast – it really reminded me of how coding could be fun again . One of the surprising gaps I found in Sliverlight was the inability to get the current user context (e.g. determine...(read more)

Star Destroyer: spaceship or film director?

jevdemon — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Apparently Lucas is up to his old tricks again . How sad . I was hoping that Spielberg might diminish Lucas’ influence on the film . *sigh* I’ll probably go see it anyway. On the upside Iron Man was surprisingly good and Prince Caspian looks to be good...(read more)

WWT == Wow

jevdemon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:16:44 GMT

The World Wide Telescope (WWT) is amazing - I can't wait to show my son. You can see a demo of it from TED here . I'm not sure when this will be available but I hope its soon. This is a great application of the...(read more)

If you can do something it doesn't mean that you should...

jevdemon — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:39:00 GMT

I'm not really doing anything BPEL related these days but a post by Jesper Joergensen caught my eye. Since I'm not focused on BPEL I haven't kept up with some of the developments in the BPM-related blogosphere. Apparently Bruce wrote a post illustrating...(read more)

SOA Fatigue

jevdemon — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:33:06 GMT

Dave Linthicum recently blogged about not attending SOA conferences because he is able to determine the core trends and messages they would be promoting. I've thought this about SOA books, reports, trade magazines and online articles for well over...(read more)

Copying the Silverlight community menu

jevdemon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:30:00 GMT

I'm building out a website using Silverlight. The more I learn about Silverlight the more I love it - I haven't had this much fun writing code in a long time. This is seriously addicting stuff . One of the things that frustrated me is that many of the...(read more)

Wow

jevdemon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:42:00 GMT

Seen this yet? Take a walk or a drive around Seattle or San Francisco. Very cool....(read more)

Well that didn't take long...

jevdemon — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:03:36 GMT

Seen this yet? Interesting to see it pop up on Yahoo News of all places. I had a feeling something like this was going to happen....(read more)

Fixing the WF FileWatcher sample

jevdemon — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:00:00 GMT

There is a FileWatcher WF activity sample that ships with the Windows SDK . I initially thought this might be of value to me but when I tried to open the workflow I ran into the following error: “Theme properties can only be changed in the Theme Configuration...(read more)

Logic Need Not Apply

jevdemon — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:28:00 GMT

Interesting story popped up on ComputerWorld today about the Microsoft offer to Yahoo. Here's what made it most interesting to me (emphasis mine): According to the Post, the discord revolves around Yang and his followers being so opposed to selling the...(read more)

Free XSLT Profiler

jevdemon — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:16:23 GMT

Today the XML Editor team released the XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 , a quick and reliable performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Profiler allows developers to measure, evaluate,...(read more)