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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun. Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five years while he worked at Sun. This departure comes just four months after two JRuby developers left Sun, citing the uncertainty surrounding the Oracle acquisition as their reason.

Can't Buy Me SOA - Herbjorn Wilhelmsen at Oredev 2009

nbharti78 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:27:59 +0000

Here at the Oredev 2009 conference in Malmo, Sweden, I had the chance to connect with Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, one of the members of the SOA Manifesto Working Group. Herbjorn presented a 'lightning talk' on the Manifesto, describing its vision and overarching values. While 15 minutes is far from enough time to cover a document of such constitutional magnitude (he wasn't able to go over all...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well. uSocial says companies can improve audiences by buying a bunch of views rather than getting them organically. They claim that this 'seed method' can spur even more traffic. Prices start at $127 for 5,000 views.

Miko Matsumura: The Role, Risk, and Future of Cloud Computing

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:54:12 +0000

Developers are always looking for, and sometimes making, the next tool that will simplify or eliminate steps in building an application. Abstractions are necessary for eliminating tedious and time consuming tasks. Cloud computing has proved to be a great tool for this.

Apache Celebrates 10 Years

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:00:45 +0000

In just ten years, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has become a prominent beacon of open source development. At the ApacheCon 2009 conference this week, Apache is celebrating ten years of operation with 65 projects under its wing, 33 projects in the Apache Incubator, and over two dozen codebases in the Apache Labs. The official anniversary date was in March during a convention in...

SOA needs manifestation….not manifesto

ActiveAlex — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:11:38 +0000

I’ll bet that it felt like a momentous achievement to get a group of very well-known bloggers, analysts and technologists to agree on a “manifesto” for services-oriented architecture (SOA).References Reference: SOA needs manifestation….not manifesto Masoud Kalali

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report. Just a few weeks ago, the EU's Competition Commissioner reprimanded Oracle for making no effort to address concerns about owning MySQL, the worlds fastest growing open source database. Since Oracle hasn't budged on its intentions to keep MySQL as part of the deal, the...

Turtles and Architecture

kirkk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:27:58 +0000

The story of software architecture reminds me of the following story. James Sugrue

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/4

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:45:42 +0000

Adobe is lashing out at Apple on its Flash Player page for the iPhone. When you go to the Flash Player on your iPhone, the text now says "Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player.

Migration tool SQL Ways reaches 4.0

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:23:44 +0000

A new version of SQL Ways has just been announced by Ispirer Systems. SQL Ways converts embedded SQL and database API without having to extract SQL statements and convert them separately. Developers can also use SQL Ways to migrate database schema, stored procedures, and triggers between major databases.

Would you like some management with that appliance?

vambenepe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:00:47 +0000

Andi Mann recently wrote an interesting post about virtual appliances . He uses the domain name pleasediscuss.com for his blog so I figured I’d do just that. More specifically, I have three comments on his article. Opaque or transparent applianceReferences Reference: Would you like some management with that appliance? ...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/3

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

An open source version of the Linux Skype client has been confirmed and is currently under development. A Skype blog says that the open sourcing of the UI will speed up development and allow the use of any GUI toolkit. Skype says this initial open source offering is part of a "larger offering," but they haven't said what this larger of

Dynamic SOA and BPM

Kalali — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:09:38 +0000

After several years of companies industry-wide combining Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), the results are mixed. Some companies have had substantial benefits moving to SOA, while others have had average results. All these companies used the appropriate technologies, such as Web Services and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) for processes, so the...

Five Important Trends on the Enterprise Architect's Radar

dnene — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:33:50 +0000

It is no secret that the internet architectures are influencing enterprise architectures. This post attempts to summarise some of the recent trends in the internet space, which seem to be carrying some momentum sufficient enough to influence the enterprise. So without further ado, these trends are : James Sugrue

Notes on Memcached

riho — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:59:34 +0000

Some notes about Memcached. Here is its architecture.How it works ?References Reference: Notes on Memcached Masoud Kalali