January 2008 - Posts
When I opened my call for a Shared Global Integration Model , I expected some folks to say "we don't need that." What I didn't expect was the argument that standards are somehow a bad idea. It's hard to consider an argument against standards with a straight
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Harry "Devhawk" Pierson, whom I'm glad to count among my friends, sent me an e-mail last week. He mentioned that he was going to post on his blog about why my call for a shared global integration model was a fantasy. "This will
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REST is not enough. I just read Steve Vinoski's article " Serendipitous Reuse? " in IEEE Internet Computing magazine. He makes a great case for why REST is the best approach for integration through the concept of serendipitous reuse. The goal being to
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I'm renewing my call, now over a year old , for creating a single model for integrating all open, shared services. I'll talk about what this is, and then what benefits we get. A Shared Global Integration Model The idea behind a shared model is that we
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Nothing makes you appreciate your health more than spending a week, flat out sick with the flu. Just as I'm finally getting over all the coughing, congestion, chills, etc... my wife and kids have all come down with the same thing. And we all had flu shots
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