In a famous post from January this year (which I missed) Ann Thomas Manes declares SOA dead. She is a Reasearch Director within the Burton Group, has worked with SOA in the Burton Group and elsewhere, and is a co-author of the WS-* specifications. The post has sparked fierce defense…
In the Java world there are several ways of handling dependencies between project components in a shared development environment. Maven is a generic build tool that creates a standardized way of creating, building and publishing component artifacts. Dependencies between the different components are declared in a Maven build file and…
A while ago I reflected on Object Oriented Programming and the fact that it really is more about classes than objects. Reading up on Newspeak, the new langugage proposed by Gilad Bracha I came across Self, one of the language on which Newspeak is indebted to. In Self no classes…
Crystal Clear is the smallest of a series of methodologies for software development, all created by Alistair Cockburn. It is smallest in the sense of the project size it addresses (up to eight developers) and in the number of things it prescribes. Other Methodologies, deriving their names from the colors…
I 100 sidor för dig som hellre käkar taggtråd än kontaktar kunder ger Carola Forshell en grundläggande lektion i hur en säljprocess för försäljning till företag bör läggas upp. Boken är baserad på hennes personliga resa, från någon som avskyr sälj till en som arbetar som säljare på heltid och…
In Beyond Software Architecture, Luke Hohmann addresses all things paramount to software product development that are usually not covered in books on software development. These things include licensing, software protection, branding, marketing and business plans and how they relate to the technical architecture and more. Every developer or architect that…
While browsing the The Server Side’s list of Most Requested Content for 2007 I ended up reading about Google’s algorithm MapReduce, Grid Computing and Giga Spaces. For the (admittedly rare) cases where the applications really have to scale to huge loads (read Google, eBay etc) JEE app servers…
A question that has been bugging me for a long time is: where are all the objects in Object Oriented Programming? Rather that discussing the relationships between objects, OOP is mainly concerned by the static relationship of classes. A better term for OOP is probably Class Oriented Programming… True, tools…