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We're Not "Resources"

Resources. It’s a dehumanizing term that is also flat-out wrong for nearly every profession I can think of.

8 replies - 2338 views - 07/15/08 by Mark Turansky in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: Wrap-up

The Top 10 SOA Pitfalls countdown hit #1 last week with Rik de Groot's post on "Ignoring culture when introducing SOA", time for a wrap-up.

0 replies - 818 views - 07/14/08 by gerovermaas in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #2 - Unclear ownership / Project based funding

Last week Viktor Grgic explained the Missing skills en this week we’ll continue with #2 - Unclear ownership / Project based funding

1 replies - 891 views - 07/07/08 by Viktor Grgic in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #3 - Missing skills

Last week Gero Vermaas explained the Incorrectly Applied CDM en this week we’ll continue with #3 - Missing skills

0 replies - 1228 views - 06/30/08 by Viktor Grgic in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #4 - Incorrectly applied Canonical Data Model

Earlier this week Vincent explained the BDUF Pitfall en this week we’ll continue with #4: Incorrectly applied Canonical Data Model (CDM).CDM is one of the...

0 replies - 1212 views - 06/26/08 by gerovermaas in Articles

SOA way of life: a day in the GUI Shop

SOA way of life: a day in the GUI Shop Following my open questions series to Jazoon'08, I will abandon my server roots for a moment and I will visit the...

0 replies - 190 views - 06/10/08 by Felipe in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #9 - Versioning

Last week we started the Top 10 SOA Pitfalls countdown with #10: NIH syndrome. This week it's time for #9. Version mismatch is one of the growing pains of a...

4 replies - 2416 views - 06/09/08 by rdegroot in Articles

Java Frameworks and Pattern Usage by Developers

A couple of days ago I was thinking of the last time I used a pattern in my daily programming. I think it was 3 months ago! Then I tried to find out why.

9 replies - 3650 views - 05/30/08 by Reza Ghaffaripour in Articles

Strategic Objectives and Advantages of Model Driven Development

Markus Voelter  has defined model driven development as “a software development approach that aims at developing software from domain-specific models....

1 replies - 2994 views - 05/21/08 by Jeffrey Ricker in Articles

An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Software Crisis

Every project manager or project sponser would love to have a model that churned out the probability of a project succeeding or failing. We may never achieve...

0 replies - 3121 views - 05/08/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development

Software development projects are notoriously late. We still have difficulty living up to promised releases.

0 replies - 2341 views - 04/24/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation Part I: A Comparison of Goals and Concepts

It's no big secret that one of the primary influences of service-orientation has been the well established object-oriented design paradigm. Though there are...

0 replies - 754 views - 04/16/08 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

12 Things You Should Know About REST and WOA

There have been a number of interesting tracts written lately about that increasingly popular topic in the world of SOA and Web services: REST.

0 replies - 1815 views - 04/09/08 by Dion Hinchcliffe in Articles