Carnets de BordA weblog about Service Oriented, Process Centric, Model Driven Programming ModelsOther Interesting Economic News- June 19, 2008 I always suspected that the main reason behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were to keep a strong hand on oil production and distribution (A pipeline to deliver oil from Russia to Asia runs through Afghanistan) and basically control the world's oil prices by controlling a small fraction of the oil production and distribution. Well, well, well, today Iraq announced that it was ready to award contracts to western oil companies. The faucet is going to open up a...http://www.ebpml.org/blog/101.htm Other Back to Moore's law- June 19, 2008 I have spent the first ten years of my career writing advanced process control systems for the semi-conductor industry (with in situ characterization). This decade of work culminated of the development of a control system that could regulate fluxes, composition, thickness (down to the monolayer) and "true" substrate temperature for Hughes Aircraft. I fancy to think that if you have so much HD channels on direct TV it is because of some of the devices this system could manufacture. It could.http://www.techno-science.net/?onglet=news&news=5508 Other State Technology and Science Index: Washington is ranking 5th- June 19, 2008 Having lived in Boston for 6 years, I found it quite surprising that Massachusetts is still 1 (and California only 4 droping 2 spots !). I also found it hard to believe that Pennsylvania was not in the top 10. Only Massachusetts and California surpass Washington for venture capital placements as a percentage of Gross State Product.http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/library/StateTechScienceIndex1.pdf SOA Enterprise Data Management and SOA- June 18, 2008 If you want to read an outstanding article on SOA, please read this essay from Fred Cummins on Data Management and SOA. The data that must remain the primary focus of attention for SOA are the data produced, consumed and managed by business systems that represent the past, present or future state of the enterprise. From a business perspective, the concerns are not a matter of distributed storage but how the data are validated, managed and protected. This quote, is the foundation of SOA..http://www.eds.com/sites/cs/blogs/eds_next_big_thing_blog/archive/2008/06/16/data-manageme... SOA The BPEL Game Show- June 18, 2008 Apparently I am not the only one that starts getting tired of the lack of understanding -to say the least-, of basic SOA concepts by the "furious five" (BPEL has been around for 6 years now). It seems that these professional writers and anlaysts could actually use some of their valuable time understanding, let alone practicing, what they are talking about. I know, it is a lot less fun than bullshiting all day.http://www.vosibilities.com/bpel-bpm-bpmn-software/the-bpel-game-showwith-contestant-david... REST The Best REST Quote Ever- June 16, 2008 This ought to be the best REST quote ever: What will drive REST adoption eventually is that it brings structure in the form of "constraints" to the sometimes chaotic world of Web services, which includes those pesky rogue services, according to Burton. This will provide a level of maturity for SOA development. It is no secret that the Burton Group has chartered itself to "make REST happen". Maybe they are thinking if Gartner can make SOA happen, we should be able to make REST happen, and boy..http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1256796,00.html SOA The Remoting Bunch- June 15, 2008 Jim Webber pointed out (a better) conversation he has had with Herbjrn Wilhelmsen at the end of last year. The level is a bit higher here. Interestingly he starts talking about "states", maybe another year and he will realize how important the concept of "state" is to constructing reusable IT assets assembled in composite information systems. He is still cohesively stuck on the concept of "one process" equals "one service" and...http://www.ebpml.org/blog/100.htm SOA Alex Maclinovsky on OASIS SOA Reference Model- June 13, 2008 This is what Alex has to say: Yes, I am familiar with OASIS SOA RM (I personally would not call it a standard just because it emanated from a standards body) and find it of very little value or relevance to the problems faced by the SOA practitioners around the world. Which is perhaps why there has been so little movement since the document was released nearly two years ago and there seems to be no plans to updateevolve it in future. And that document does not seem to mention word...http://blogs.sun.com/RealSOA/entry/plucked_chickens Computing RoadRunner: Who Moved my MIPs- June 9, 2008 The world's first hybrid supercomputer has broken through the "petaflop barrier" of 1,000 trillion operations per second... the machine was designed by IBM and uses Cell Broadband Engine chips&8212;originally developed for video game platforms&8212;in conjunction with x86 processors from AMD... Roadrunner is twice as fast as the world-leading Blue Gene, which is itself three times more powerful than the remaining contenders on the industry's Top500...http://www.ebpml.org/blog/99.htm SOA Kung Fu SOA- June 6, 2008 You probably need to see the movie to get these few lines... Po is a fat apprentice noodle maker who served noodles his entire life. He keeps dreaming about being a great martial arts hero like his idols the Furious Five. But can Po really be a Dragon Warrior Can he really beat Tai Lung and return peace and prosperity to his village (Yes he can and he...http://www.ebpml.org/blog/98.htm |