There’s a lot of points that will be made in this blog entry. To keep them straight, I will highlight them right up front: Vendors are getting behind SCA because it reinforces a need for tools The importance of architects in software development Untested technologies are being pushed on IT like bad drugs from the… Read More »
It seems that I am not as flexible as I believed I could be on my thinking regarding SOA. I attempted to categorize various SOA engagements in my SYS-CON article entitled “A Classification Scheme for Defining SOA” . I believed that I could hide my dissatisfaction with the lack of clarity surrounding SOA by lumping… Read More »
I’m working on a project with a fairly young engineer (let’s just say I have 12 years on him). He’s so enthusiastic about Spring and Hibernate, and so bought into concepts, such as Inversion of Control and declarative programming. It makes me laugh a bit how guys like him act like this stuff is all… Read More »
It’s taken more than 10 years, but I finally got it through my thick skull: A design is only as good as the potential for it to be put it into practice. I tend to come up with extremely elegant, agile and extensible designs. What I’ve learned, however, is that not everyone sees the elegance… Read More »