I’ve been given the privilege of speaking at CodeMash 2009 in Sandusky, Ohio this coming January. The presentation and discussion will cover the learning from implementations of Guerilla SOA and will include code and demonstration based on the WCF. It may change some minds about the default approach to the WCF programming model and open [...]
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OK so I’ve been moving from Sydney to Chicago with lots of time at a client in Calgary. No posts, but some coming. In the meantime, based on a note from my colleague Ian Cartwright on an article about Microsoft embracing AMQP, I wrote a little poem, for I am in a very poetic mood [...]
My CTO, Rebecca Parsons, announced the publication of the ThoughtWorks Anthology a few days ago: I am thrilled to announce that the ThoughtWorks Anthology is now ON SALE! http://www.pragprog.com/titles/twa There are essays by Roy and Michael Robinson, Martin, Neal Ford, Tiffany Lentz, Stelios Pantazopoulos, Ian Robinson, Erik Doernenburg, Kristan Vingrys and James Bull, as well [...]
After a meeting of the office of the CTO, most of us stayed around in our San Francisco office for a few days to do some podcasts and to participate in a Code Jam for Inveneo, a not-for-profit who provide computers and connectivity to developing countries (especially their schools, hospitals, and poorer villages). They install [...]
Charles Nutter has just written up a nice summary of the things in Thomas Enebo‘s announcement of RC2 of JRuby 1.1 He talks in general about the astoundingly improved performance characteristics, particularly when compared to the Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.9 native interpreters, as well as the better use of JVM resources. Let alone the 260 [...]
I suppose we Aussies might give up too easily, Ola Antonio Cangiano let everyone else who isn’t on the list know the disappointing news from earlier this afternoon.
I’m chairing next week’s Ark Group conference on SOA (Achieving Interoperability in Systems Architecture) at the Vibe Hotel in North Sydney, Australia. You can download the conference brochure here. My ThoughtWorks colleague Halvard Skogsrud and I are presenting the workshop entitled “Bearing the standards of interoperability”.
For a wonderfully concise and lucid synopsis on what you really need to be aiming for while devising an SOA, watch Jim Webber‘s InfoQ interview. He discusses the Agile-hugging benefits of an emergent service ecosystem, provides best practices around building for scalability, highlights what makes RPC (even if you pronounce it “doc/literate”) bad in terms [...]
This past week, my coworkers Scott Shaw, Evan Bottcher, and Richard Durnall from TW Melbourne, and Gianny Damour from TW Sydney enjoyed our time speaking at the inaugral Australian Archtecture Forum in both Sydney and Melbourne. The most fabulously contentious talk I attended was a round-table discussion from Gianny on the role of the (software) [...]
