December 2005 - Posts
David Ing posted a great set of questions I'll paraphrase as "what this heck is this Service Orientation thing anyway? A Pattern?" This essentially raises the question - if SO is not an architecture, WHAT IS IT? A good way to think about this is: Do you
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James Governor , co-founder of RedMonk , dropped me a mail today pointing at a blog where he comments on my recent posting about how Microsoft is doing its best not to blindly jump onto the acronym bandwagon. James raises several points in his article,
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A few days ago I posted some of my thoughts on the potential value of a binary/efficient encoding of XML but have decided to pull the article because I don't want people confusing my views on this matter with Microsoft's position. I'll modify slightly
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In his article, Joe McKendrick comments on "Microsoft's fuzzy (but oh-so typical) ESB stance" . Joe discusses how Microsoft is not jumping onto the bandwagon and naming something/everything that we ship as an ESB. He goes on to comment on Paul Kirill's
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http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1124772,00.html I'll avoid responding to Dave's comments on WCF just now ... but the article above does very nicely illustrate the thinly veiled reality of IBM's strategy- it's
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Before I start, I would like to make it clear that, yes, you might be one of the 10-20% of developers implementing sophisticated control systems, writing code that demands the absolute minimun call latency for any given operation, or any number of hard-core
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