When I speak with customers about cloud computing, a common question is often “how do I migrate an application to the cloud?” While this is a multi-part answer, one of the hurdles for migration is often storage.
Many applications store data using the file system (e.g. read / write a file to d:\data\config.xml). Moving these types [...]
Title
The Architecture of User Experience
Publication Date
January 2007
Location
ARCast with Ron Jacobs
Summary
Sure user experience (UX) is important but what does an architect need to know about it? How do you think about making it better and what are some of the key mistakes we need to avoid? In this episode we are joined by Simon Guest who [...]
Title
Interoperability with OfficeXML
Publication Date
August 2005
Location
MSDN
Summary
This is the first article in a series to show interoperability with the Microsoft Office XML Reference Schemas (WordProcessingML and SpreadSheetML). Here, we'll be looking at how both BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere (running on either Microsoft Windows or Linux) can be used to generate server-side documents that can be read [...]
I can't believe it's been a year since I was at JavaOne last year – it seems like only yesterday I was getting my picture at Duke's 10 year birthday! (only kidding, of course )
Although I'm not in San Francisco for this year's conference, Microsoft do have a couple of sessions and a booth on the [...]
Congratulations to Christian and the guys over at Thinktecture on their v0.6 release of WSCF!
New features include support for .NET Fx 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, together with partial classes, nullable types, SOAP 1.2, generics and a host of other goodies.
I was asked the question "How can you tell if a Web Service really is a Web Service?". If someone says that they have a Web Service (or more importantly is trying to sell you one!) what are the questions you should ask? I decided to put together this list of 10 things that point you [...]
Given my new role, I seem to have less and less time recently to keep up with the latest interoperability-related posts and sites. I did however notice that Wayne from JNBridge has started a blog. Aside from product information he has an interesting post on accessing JMS from .NET. Well worth a read.
I came back from vacation today to find I had won a "JavaOne 2005 Speaker Award" for being in the top 20 of speakers at JavaOne this year .
Here's a list of the top 20 sessions, and if you'd like to watch the session (I co-presented with Raghavan Srinivas from Sun), you can find it [...]
Kirill has a great debrief of our Web Services interoperability session at PDC last month.
Also, you may want to checkout the interoperability plugfest that his group is running.