Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

The law of conservation of hype

To the various conservation laws from physics (e.g. of energy and of momentum), one can add the law of conservation of hype. In the IT industry, as in others,...

1 replies - 617 views - 05/08/09 by vambenepe in News

Tactical Data Integration with JBoss Teiid

In this screencast, recorded at the recent JBoss Virtual Experience 2009, Chuck Mosher and Ken Johnson  present the architecture of the JBoss data...

0 replies - 3736 views - 05/07/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Software Architecture Cheatsheet Part 2 - Choosing the Right Paradigm

In the previous post in this series, I tried to enumerate the most frequent kinds of applications. The question I’m going to ask myself here is what are the...

1 replies - 3787 views - 05/07/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

SOA Patterns – Blogjecting Watchdog

As I mentioned in the previous post I got a few interesting questions lately. The first from Colin regarding developing a customized solution for the...

0 replies - 629 views - 05/06/09 by arnonrgo in News

SOA in Healthcare (Part II)

Healthcare organizations today are challenged to manage growing portfolios of systems and applications. The cost of acquiring, integrating, and maintaining...

0 replies - 1371 views - 05/04/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Nobody is Talking About The Whiteboard Pattern - Does OSGi Violate "Separation of Concerns"

I have known OSGi since Version 2 and started using it since Version 3. What made me a believer was the Service Oriented Programming model and the positive...

2 replies - 4987 views - 05/01/09 by peterhuber in News

Understanding WS-Policy Part II: Operator Composition Rules and Attachments

The following article is an excerpt from the new book "Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA" [REF-1] Copyright Prentice Hall/Pearson...

0 replies - 727 views - 04/29/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

A post-mortem on the previous IT management revolution

Before rushing to standardize “Cloud APIs”, let’s take a look back at the previous attempt to tackle the same problem, which is one of IT management...

0 replies - 1726 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News

Good and Bad Public Cloud candidates

I recently have a good conversation with Ed and Dean of RightScale on what are the characteristics making an application a good public cloud citizen.Good...

0 replies - 1009 views - 04/27/09 by riho in News

Top 10 SOA Twitterers

 If Twitter provides any measure of the pulse of a technology, then SOA is far from dead -- in fact, it is alive and well and the subject of many Tweets....

0 replies - 1159 views - 04/24/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Guerrilla SOA (SOA & The Tarpit of Irrelevancy)

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts where I discuss what I see wrong with SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) in the way that it's being sold by...

0 replies - 634 views - 04/24/09 by nealford in News

A Look at WSDL 2.0

Even if you are perfectly content working with the well-established WSDL 1.1 standard, it is worth taking the time to know just how and why certain features...

0 replies - 1646 views - 04/23/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

An Introduction to Cloud Computing

In this presentation, recorded at a recent Amazon Web Services User Group meeting (organized by Skills Matter), Nicola Cardace gives a generic introduction to...

0 replies - 2244 views - 04/21/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18948 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

REST - The benefits of hypertext

I asked the rest-discuss group: We simply don't have examples of HATEOAS done fully. Why is HATEOAS even worth while? What's the need for HATEOAS...

0 replies - 1294 views - 04/20/09 by Solomon in News