Microsoft Surface Keynote

Have a look at the Microsoft Surface Keynote from last Monday night.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpltjgXMTf8] <p>…  Wow!</p>

Applied SOA: Part 9–Service Versioning

This is part of a series of blog post about Applied SOA. The past blog entries are:

• Introduction
• SOA Basics
• Service Discovery Process
• Service Taxonomy
• Interoperability
• Service Composition
• System Consistency
• Security

In this article, I’ll cover Service Versioning.

In SOA a Service...

Mocking Dependencies != IoC (or at least it doesn’t have to)

Since I met the concept of Inversion of Control (IoC) I’ve been a big fan!  What an elegant way to externalize dependencies and decouple a component from all the components it depends on.  No longer is a component initializing a dependency initially coupling itself in a hard way.

A nice side-effect is that an IoC-compliant component is easier to...

Windows 8: 20 Tips and Tricks

Here’s a very interesting article easing the transition between Windows 7 & Windows 8:

http://gizmodo.com/5891221/windows-8-20-tips-and-tricks

Applied SOA: Part 8–Security

This is part of a series of blog post about Applied SOA. The past blog entries are:

• Introduction
• SOA Basics
• Service Discovery Process
• Service Taxonomy
• Interoperability
• Service Composition
• System Consistency

In this article, I’ll cover security.  Security is a very broad topic and by...