Lately I’ve become be very interested in Web 2.0 with particular interest in Mashup development. Microformats, REST-based web services using RSS and/or Atom that empower mashup development, and Building APIs for the web. The concept that the web can finally start evolving into a programmable set of services and data instead of just electronic brochures …
Great People and Old Friends at VS Connections
I just got back from the Visual Studio Connections conference in Orlando, Florida for a few days. I went down for a few meetings, and had a really great time. I meet Robert Green who on Monday night previewed a free set of soon to be released components called the VBPowerPack. Robert and I talked about …
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Lhotka: SOA a Big Train Wreck Just Waiting to Derail
Rocky Lhotka has some sobering things to say about the hype surrounding Service Oriented Architectures, or SOA. He says SOA is about crossing trust boundaries but thinks (consultants will counsel) people to use it within apps and replace their tiers with SOA concepts. This he says will cause huge problems: SOA is going to cost …
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