For those of you out there who need more evidence that WS-* is a confusing mess, I give you this.

‘nuff said.

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I was at RailsConf 2006 where DHH gave a great keynote on what amounts to REST principles. I had heard a lot about REST, but until DHH’s talk couldn’t really wrap my mind around the concept. Now that I have a better mental map of the REST concepts, I have been doing some research. Here […]

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Everyone knows a programmer who is more concerned about microseconds of execution time than whether or not the correct result is returned. The opposite of those programmers are the architects who follow the mantra “Make it correct then make it fast”. These architects seem equally unconcerned about getting the result in a reasonable time as […]

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The UML is a very effective notation for object oriented software designs. However, as with many useful tools, there seems to be some misunderstanding about what the UML can and cannot do. This misunderstanding can lead to organizations failing to meet their goals because they are not using their tools properly. This is unfortunate since […]

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Ah, Portal. It’s the answer to all of our content troubles: SSO; content aggregation; personalized pages; “easy” portlet integration; etc. There exists an extremely large number of companies that are getting raked over the coals for portal solutions that they may not even need. In fact, I personally have been involved with or worked around […]

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