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Eating The IT Elephant - Book Review
Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on various studies rele
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Our NHS is 60 years old today, and it is one of the shining examples of why we call it GREAT Britain
WaveMaker Review
There are a number of tools out there which aspire to make building Rich Internet A pplication s easie
iPhone book and objc blog...
I am constantly blown away that the cool winding and twisting of life... I am done the Core Animatio
Gen Y, Social Media, and the Enterprise
Generation Y includes those in the age range 13 to 31. This is the largest generation ever, even su
The Kaazing team is growing
Anyone that has ever tried to release a product, whether closed source or open source, knows how har
JavaOne - Hits and misses
This years JavaOne was a not to be missed event. Here are my views on how the conference has changed
How much test coverage do you need? - The Testivus Answer
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Eating The IT Elephant - Book Review
Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on various studies released over the last 5 years state as little as 30% of complex projects succeed. Although this number is climbing, very large projects (300 – 500 man ye
Involving The Team In Bug Fixing Shares Knowledge
A large part of improving the quality of software is knowledge sharing (indeed it is one of the basic tenets of Lean). In most organizations when a bug is submitted it is usually delegated to the developer who wrote the original code.  Paul Pagel’s
The Misnomer of Best Practices
One evening after sessions at the Better Software Conference, Dan North and I got into a discussion regarding the phrase ‘Best Practices’ and concluded that this term was actually a misnomer. Let’s take a non-software analogy; wearing a seat belt in
Glitch Watch - Gate change at ATL
So I was coming back from Atlanta yesterday and, as I arrived a bit early at the gate, settled in to read my RSS feeds. I picked a spot that was far enough away from the gate not to be too crowded, while at the same time allowing me to keep an eye o
The Dreyfus Model - Back In The Spotlight?
The Dreyfus Model shows the 5 stages of skill acquisition possible through experience of a subject. Created by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus in 1980 while researching AI, the model was popularized by Dr Patricia Benner in the mid Eighties in her work on
Glitch Watch - Locked out by software glitch
Residents living in a city-owned apartment complex in Nottingham, England, were locked out of their homes on Tuesday of this week after a new security system was installed. Property manager Nottingham City Homes was installing security upgrades, inc
Glitch Watch - Verizon published 12,500 unlisted numbers
Verizon blamed a software glitch this week for the fact that it published approximately 12,500 unlisted phone numbers in a Washington County, MD phone directory. The company stated that it is taking steps to make amends to affected customers, anywhe
Is Java Dying? - No Way!
After reading several blogs and comments on the demise of Java, I felt compelled to post some interesting facts. Only a small percentage of developers go to conferences like JavaOne. These people constitute the majority of those who read, write and
Product Announcement
After much thought, we have decided that selling Java development tools is not a viable business model for us. Several recent events have helped us reach this conclusion: At JavaOne this year, free tools completely dominated the sessions. The exhibi
Glitch Watch - Incorrect debt ratings at Moodys
As if the financial world wasn’t in enough turmoil already, it has been revealed that programmers at debt rating company Moody’s made a “coding error” that overrated several debt products in early 2007. The products affected
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Best Practices for Building SOA Applications
vu tuan anh wrote: This is interesting article, I'd like it. Could you send me some SOA documents to my e-mail? Thanks alot.
SOA Feature Story: Real-Time SOA Starts with the Messaging Bus!
Casual Visitor wrote: TCP does not line up a message on one connection after a file transfer on another connection. Each TCP connection forms its own in-order transfer. If you want to convince people to buy your product, you should avoid putting incorrect information in the ...
SOA Governance vs SOA Management
Andrew Dennis wrote: Sean, Thanks for the insightful article about the meaning of governance. I have been collecting examples of SOA Governance definitions and metaphors, many of which are both colorful and even useful. You might find them of interest. They are at: SOA Gove...
Why Enterprise Architects Continue to Fall Short with SOA
IT Yoda wrote: I whole-heartedly agree, and will offer something that I didn't see a lot of, in your article: suggestions for how to start going about correcting the problem :-) First, EAs should consider looking at EA frameworks (i.e. TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) and EA-level tool...
Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)
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Timing the Market with Distributed Genetics
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SOA World - Growing an SOA Garden
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Long-Tail SOA and the Mythology of Re-Use
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SOA's Second Act: Dynamic Documents Top the Agenda
While SOA has traditionally had something of a data obsession. While the focus has been on service-e
A SOA Adaptation Strategy
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Can Agile Development & Model-Driven Design Solve the Broken Delivery Process?
The software delivery process has long faced many challenges, many of which are exacerbated by the n
EDI to XML: A Practical Approach
While EDI transactions account for most worldwide commercial activity, XML-based alternatives are be
Why Enterprise Architects Continue to Fall Short with SOA
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