Enterprise Integration Patterns: Gregor's Ramblings

Gregor's Ramblings on Enterprise Integration

Web 2.0 Patterns - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I confess. I am a groupie. When Tim O'Reilly invited me to be part of a workshop on Web 2.0 patterns I was quite excited. First, because I was going to meet the exalted one in person. Second, because I would have a chance to learn a lot about Web 2.0 as I am pretty much starting from zero.
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/45_web20.html

Dagstuhl Seminar - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I just returned from a trip to Germany to attend a workshop on The Role of Business Processes in Service Oriented Architecture. Besides a guaranteed top score in buzzword bingo the workshop provided a unique opportunity to connect thought leaders from academia and industry over the course of a week. The attendee roster sported the usual industry heavyweights, i.e., Microsoft, IBM, SAP, making me proud to add Google to the list.
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/44_dagstuhl.html

Integration Patterns in the Wild - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Hanging out with my intellectual drinking buddies reminded me that our integration patterns have been embraced by a fair number of commercial as well as open source projects. In my eyes this is really the best indicator of success for a pattern language. Latin a dead language used mostly by doctors to sound more knowledgeable is not a good model for a pattern language. You want a language that is alive and actually used by people. Talking to a few folks who did embrace our language motivated..
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/43_wildpatterns.html

Ramblings Now In Audio - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Two years ago you were not cool if you did not have a blog. Today you are not cool if you have not done a podcast. Of course I cannot allow myself to fall behind, so here is my podcast on layered applications: http:www.mariocardinal.compodcastShow0007.html
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/36_podcast.html

I May Be a Flake, But At Least I Am Published! - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I have been pretty quiet recently, but I finally have some results to show. The current issue of IEEE Internet Computing (MayJune 2007) contains my guest column for "Toward Integration". Also, I authored one chapter in the upcoming book "SOA Expertenwissen" (in German).
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/50_publications.html

Revenge of the Nerds - OOPSLA 2005 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Remember the people from high school who had strange hobbies and could never get a date Well, they all grew up and they are running a conference now, the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications conference, OOPSLA in short. While the conference logistics can be quirky at times the content is top notch. And it seems like most of them have managed to get a date after all.
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/37_oopsla.html

Of Boxes and Lines - (Found July 2, 2008 )

After joining the big G I put particular emphasis on staying in touch with the .Net community. For one thing, a fair number of my intellectual drinking buddies tend to congregate around the large software company in the Pacific Northwest. Second, as a believer in cross-platform integration, technology-neutral design patterns and peace on earth I want to make sure I switch the koolaid flavor every so often. One opportunity to do that presented itself at OOP in Munich where Ralf Westphal invited..
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/38_interaction.html

What is in a Name - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Computer science is known as the field where every problem can be solved by just one more level of indirection. Well, a message channel berween two components is such a level of indirection. As it turns out naming this additional element can have a more profound influence on the system design than might appear at first.
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/39_namingchannels.html

EAI DSLs - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I am so clever. In my very first professional project in the US over 10 years ago I used a DSL to solve an EAI problem. If those buzzwords had been around at the time I would have been pretty cool, too. I guess you cant have everything.
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/42_eaidsl.html

The Metrics Maid - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Some of the most hated people in San Francisco must be the meter maids, the DPT people who drive around in golf carts and hand out tickets to anyone who overslept street cleaning or did not have enough quarters for the meter. On some projects, the most hated people are the metric maids, the people who go around and try to sum up a developers hard work and intellectual genius in a number between 1 and 10.
http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/41_metrics.html