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time to move! Antville is a symatic community but I'm...
Post is THE company which implemented SOA the first time,...
Hypothesis: Since infrastucture code is not part of the domain...
this time It's the content, stupid http://www.joost.com/home?playNow=33l83ke#id=33l83ke
interface. I'm sceptical http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10065136-2.html
gives to the Pattern Movement Look what I've found: A...
Alexander—The pattern language that we began creating in the 1970s...
hill in the morning mist. Nasim Taleb explains the...
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Coming of age
The web now is ready to be the OS - of course from a user perspective not hardware drivers etc. for the user point of view the desktop is the OS. With Adobe Air, Mozilla Prism, Ajax Apps like gmail, zoho office we see a platform agnostic OS that java always wanted to be. For this Microsoft was afraid of Java in the 90thies. For this it fought with great success against it. But now the odds are against Microsoft. The web is evolving into the OS. How can you stop that? Its guerillia, its viral. The OS will not matter in the future, the web will. When Microsoft didnt understand the web in the early 90thies it was the last chance to really delay their decline. Now the game is over
they will still earn lotta money but they are no longer in control.
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Keystroke dynamics as a biometric
Didn't know this could work, I can imagine it on user login on our website, to identify and authenticate the user... en.wikipedia.org
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Great Shirt
Kudos to Arno for designing this T-Shirt...
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Bigtable API
Gosh, rumors say one of my predictions for 2008 becomes true...
After google killed their Search API in 2007, they now are reentering the webservice market again? If so, welcome!
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Structure preserving transformations
When you plan a system you need to have growth in mind. Thats all the "scalability" talks they talk. Scaling is not a problem, first of all its good news: your customer base grows, so you need more power. You can always scale-up quiet easly. There are systems not designed for scaling at all, but their business are so prosperous that adding costly metal is no problem. This is valid when you don't install your software at customers site and you have a decent budget. Otherwise you have to build for scale. When architects plan a building that should scale-out or scale-up they will not build the future full-scale building but prepare the original one for scaling. How can a building preserve a livable structure when it grows? In the same way designing software for scale does not mean making it performing now, but sustain future improvements. Thats sensible and cost effective, but also a hard to prove. How can we structure our building now that we don't need to start from scratch once our business grows? How can we structure for transformation? How can the structure preserve and foster living transformation? Thats the Lebenswerk of Christopher Alexander and thats the holy grail of software architecture. We need to find structure that is able to cope with transformation over the lifetime of the software, and dare to ask: at the end, will it blend?
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