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I've read various articles on SOA and SDO lately. What is it about this technology that makes it impossible to write coherently about it? I'm not being funny: there isn't a single article available (including the Wikipedia articles) that isn't so heavily laden with useless buzzwords that it's still readable.
Find one. I dare you.
Addendum:
When the bits in question finally work, and work consistantly, there are few things that give you a similar twinge of satisfaction.
You know, every time I listen to our podcast, I'm a little surprised by how good it is.
Like, we're totally, like, aw3some!!!1
I'm getting tired of hearing people talk about their company's "mainframe". Unless your name is Jeff Bezos, your book store does not have a mainframe--you have a "server".
Come up with a sentence to describe me in 15 words or less.
So, Sun has promised to Free Java. The best thing that can come of this: Apple reimplementing the JRE (like they did X), and hopefully optimizing it so that things like OO and oXygen will finally run fast enough to be usable.
Regardless of how educated you are, or how l33t of a h4x0r you are, there are few things as humbling as learning a new system/language/technology. Inevitably, you end up thrashing for hours on some trivial (although not intuitively obvious) detail.
(For those of you following along at home: while building an XSLT stylesheet today, Travis learned how important it is to pay attention to the xmlns attribute in source XML files. Here's a tip: that carefully-crafted XPath won't match if you leave it out. Heh.)
Comments:
"Three words: Visual Basic.NET
*shudder*"
-PFritz21 [2006-05-05 17:32:25]
"It's been awhile since I heard a good John Martin quote."
-Jess [2006-05-13 01:01:11]
"Believe it or not, I actually use "intuitively obvious" in conversation. What has JCMIII done to me?!?"
-trav [2006-05-17 01:08:35]
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In the same way that I love Neal Stephenson's In the Beginning Was the Command Line (which I re-read about once a year), I love Mark's article titled The myth of RSS compatability. Funny, precise, and relevant.
I've grown to love Backpack. I signed up for an account quite some time ago, but never had a real use for it until I started at my Real Job. Now I can't live without it. Yay for 37 Signals.
These products are a model for how web software should be written. The navigation of the tools could use some work, as there are some pretty significant usability issues, but the tools themselves are exquisitely written. If I worked for them, I'd be proud.
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