Archive for 'June, 2007' category.
A recent eWeek Opinion piece by Michael Hickins asked the controversial question, “Is Open Source Dying?” While I am sure the headline was for shock value, the article does does raise some legitimate questions. Obviously the answer is a resounding “No”, but there are some interesting movements in OSS these days
Is Open Source Dying?
City of disaster… July 1, 2007 • No Comments The city of Mumbai (Bombay) once again gets caught with extreme rainfall, with fall up to 200 mm in 7-8 hours, the city is getting paralyzed, waters are flooding low lying areas across the city, including railway tracks, stations, highways and streets, […]
(Could this be flamebait - probably! But here goes anyway) By Architect here I’m not talking Enterprise level folk who pretty much don’t code much anyway - they’re really IT strategists and don’t need to apologize. I’m talking about the Architect for a small division or one team or a small number of teams […]
Recently I’ve been surprised at job postings for Architects that also expect the person hired to … large ecommerce or software product companies . . . . . Must not be too high-level and still able … of a multi-year architectural roadmap for their growing portfolio of software and hardware.” I […]
SOA Governance is a complicated topic. There are so many things associated with SOA Governance it can make your head spin. There are technology elements, like registries/repositories, policy management, policy enforcement agents, security providers, service virtualization, and what seems
SOA Governance: When, Where, and How
This post is part of a series, Debugging Extreme Programming - Agile not Fragile looking at all of … provide concrete realistic use cases for API design. Testing in agile means developer-authored
Debugging Extreme Programming - Testing
microformats | About microformats. It’s been a while since I blogged, and I must admit I’m feeling a bit buoyed by the incredible progress that has been made in the last year within the Telecommunications industry and the promise of merging real-time communications (read: “Telephony”) with the World Wide Web
microformats | About […]
The Hands of Christ Filed under: anti white, layering, enterprise architect, transgenico, open your eyes, blogging basics, reading list, role playing games, informatique, cool — Bernice @ 10:34 pm There is a parish at the east side of Belfast in Northern Ireland called St. Mary’
The Hands of Christ
I have to hand it to Apple and their amazing ability to combine fantastic products and also achieve incredible customer intimacy (being in touch with their customers and understanding what they want/need). I just walked past an AT&T store where the line for the new iPhone was as long as a something you […]
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1 job/day: Lead Naval Architect (June 29, 2007)
After thinking overnight about yesterday’s post (When is it time for SOA life cycle governance?), I realized that the information in the quote I pulled misses an important point. That quote, taken from an Information Week article, summarizes comments from Anne Thomas Manes. For accuracy’s sake, let’s take a second look:
On second […]
I have been working a lot in what you could call the social computing space of late and there seems to be a vast amount of ambiguity about what all the web 2.0 aspects bring to enterprise In particular how can many of the aspects of social computing be leveraged for use without […]
I’ve been out in San Francisco this week at the Burton Catalyst Conference, listening to the sessions, meeting interesting people and participating in the OASIS XACML Interop demo event (more on that in a future blog). Yesterday I was given the opportunity to be part of a panel discussion on Identity Services
Desperately Seeking […]
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Industry Trends in Specialist Animation Jun 29, 2007 in varanasi, DTP, tutor, part time, … , marketing, business, ubuntu, writing, media, email, design, wordpress, games, google, generic, work
Industry Trends in Specialist Animation
Architect (NCA) NCA Certification Goal: At our highest level of certification, the Nortel Certified Architect represents a highly advanced level of technical design and analytical expertise for complex Nortel Networks solutions. This achievement is recognized throughout
NCA - Nortel Certified Architect
2007 BIDS All-Hands Meeting Last week, I attended the BEA BIDS 2007 All-Hands Meeting at Miami. BIDS All-Hands Meeting is a yearly event when everyone from the Aqualogic professional services organization comes together and attends face-to-face meetings. This was a fantastic opportunity for people to network, to share knowledge (
Thoughts from 2007 BIDS Miami […]
The cover story in the 6/11/07 issue of Information Week (How 9 Hot Technologies Can Blow Up In Your Face) includes a warning about venturing to deep into SOA without proper governance: For the first dozen Web services, you’re probably OK doing things as you always have–minimum tracking of performance, helter-skelter changes by […]
I had a nice chat with Rich Seeley at TechTarget this week on SOA and management, … , development and runtime — as well as the mixed services lifecycle (wide AND deep) — remains a goal … , explained that WebLayers has some 1,000 pre-built policies that can be applied to SOA development
Policy-based management […]
I’ve been sitting on this post as a draft for too long… Kiss is an interesting thing to type in to your search engine of choice (I’m search engine neutral by the way). Do you want Gene and the boys? Do you want dance music for London? Or do you, as I did, […]
[ ] I look for wood which is unusual usage. If you know that information please tell me! Like this picture. Wood uses for floor in a subway station. It is unusual style. wow
Wood
Most people just think of SSL as providing encryption. It does that, but the other important thing it provides is authentication. It doesn’t matter to most people how the encryption works (except inasmuch that it actually works to provide a secure connection) but it does matter how the authentication works, because it’s easy for […]
This post is part of a series, Debugging Extreme Programming - Agile not Fragile looking at all of the XP practices. Simple Design Goal: Build what’s needed now, business needs something to deploy or to sell as soon as possible; don’t try to predict the future, it’s unknown; tomorrow you’ll know better what’s needed; […]
I just wanted to know if any more thought has gone into the question I posed on an earlier post: What effect (if any) has Postmodernism/Emerging/Emergent/Missional mindsets affected other cultures other than white America/UK individuals and communities? Has there been any discussion around the effects of a Emerging church discussion with-in the
I […]
Set the pace with one of the fastest moving team in Windows Live Operations, the Application Networking Services team. As a Network Engineer, you will support the adoption of the latest advancements in Application Networking infrastructure technologies and services. You will help define and develop solutions and the support model for MSN’s
Network Architect
[ ] [ ] I found an interesting architecture. This a subway station in Holland, the Hague, and the name is Souterrain by Oma Ren Koolhaas(2004). The Hague is an imprisoned city, confined by the sea, and highway connecting Amsterdam and Rotterdam. So this city means […]
California architect Gregg Fleishman knows how to put together a house in a hurry, and that’s just what he’s done with this DH1 Disaster House. Unlike the Fab Tree… Original post by SCI FI Wire
DH1 Disaster House, from stack of plywood to dwelling in no time flat
Ok I just posted around 40 new pictures on My Flickr….. go check it out yall! and KUTPs!!!! oh and here is a picture of Shane Claiborne when I went to go hear him quote his book, heh: Shane
Flickr has been updated…..
An International Shipyard Company seeks qualified candidates to fill the position of: Assistant Engineer Requirements : Min. Diploma from Naval Architecture Min. 1 year of working experience in Shipyard orEngineering field, fresh graduated are also welcome to apply Preferred from Piping and Hull Engineering experience Able to communicate
Assistant Engineer
Spring proxy-based AOP vs AspectJ weaving (bytecode enhancement) Spring proxy-based AOP Good: easy to use, no need post-compiler. Now it supports AspectJ pointcut expression. It is instance based. Weak: carry overhead of reflection, no interception for internal call and limit of only method join points. Usage: Service and Data Access Layer (
AOP […]
