Agile Development: why it rocks, who it helps, and why it's failing

The Agile method was the best thing that happened to me in my career as a developer. Before I came across Agile, one of my biggest frustrations was the...

1 replies - 638 views - 08/27/08 by sarajo in News

Lean Software Development

While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver...

0 replies - 1875 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News

Incremental Migration

Like any profession, software development has it's share of oft-forgotten activities that are usually ignored but have a habit of biting back at just the...

0 replies - 149 views - 08/22/08 by martinfowler in News

SOA Security 101: Patching the Firewall Hole

It’s 2008 and it’s become clear that SOA is here to stay. The first to implement are realizing the benefits of an open architecture as well as the...

0 replies - 1220 views - 08/18/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Project-Oriented SOA

Projects are the lifeblood of an IT department. Almost everything in IT is measured through a project lens. SOA, due to its global-centric nature, is often...

0 replies - 1655 views - 08/18/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

FindBugs and PMD applied on Java EE 5

After few months of a fun learning curve - coding WSDL-first Web Services based on EJB 3 and JPA - I found some time to include automated quality tasks in my...

2 replies - 2140 views - 08/18/08 by Felipe in Articles

Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea

Microsoft recently released SP1 for .NET.

0 replies - 3824 views - 08/18/08 by arnonrgo in News

Interview with Jeff Davis, author of "Open Source SOA" along with a free chapter of the book.

This article represent an interview with Jeff Davis, author of Manning's Open Source SOA, around his book subject and related areas. The book itself is an...

1 replies - 1320 views - 08/13/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Evolving Architectures - Architecture Retrospective

Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and...

1 replies - 1416 views - 08/13/08 by arnonrgo in News

BPMN to BPEL: Going to Battle With One Hand Tied?

I have been looking at business process modeling and I am a bit puzzled about the connections between the different goals (strategy support, process...

2 replies - 1131 views - 08/11/08 by vambenepe in News

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Author of Manning's SOA Patterns, Shares a Free Chapter

Here is an interview with Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, author of Manning's SOA Patterns, which is an under development book and currently available as an early access...

0 replies - 1688 views - 07/24/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 1303 views - 07/22/08 by vambenepe in News

Debugging Spring OSGi with NetBeans IDE

NetBeans is my favorite IDE but it suffers from lack of OSGi support. Eclipse with Equinox and plug-ins wins in terms of fast build, test, and deploy.I try...

4 replies - 1918 views - 07/05/08 by slim.ouertani in Tips and Tricks

Running mod_rails on Leopard (OSX 10.5)

From the command line:gem install passengersudo passenger-install-apache2-moduleThe Apache 2 module was successfully installed. Please edit your Apache...

2 replies - 826 views - 07/04/08 by danielwanja in News

Java and Mocking

I've just spent my first three days on a project in Leeds. It's a pretty common Java project, RESTful services and some MVC screens. We have been using Mockito...

4 replies - 3497 views - 07/04/08 by olabini in News