People who know me would
generally agree I'm a
straightforward guy - I
pretty much just like to
move in the direction
I've said I was going,
rather than try to move
from side to side and
finesse something. So
when it comes to
tech...
Service-oriented
architecture (SOA) has
emerged as a key strategy
for IT and
line-of-business
executives to jointly
enhance business
performance and agility
in today's intense
corporate climate. Using
the SOA methodology,
busine...
Typically when we think
about security for a Web
service, our focus is on
how to protect it from
unauthorized and
malicious users. Thus, we
tend to concentrate on
such things as
authentication of the
requestor, checking to
see tha...
The notion of building
bridges to service
providers and managing
the interaction will
become more commonplace
in 2006 as we learn to
accept that many services
we leverage within an
enterprise are services
we may not host. The
tech...
A large company found
itself handicapped by an
ornery snarl of siloed
applications that
compromised its agility,
performance, and
profitability. Its IT
department was constantly
behind schedule and over
budget in hand coding
point...
One of the business
benefits organizations
strive to achieve by
implementing a
service-oriented
architecture (SOA) or in
utilizing Web services is
the opportunity to reuse
business components.
Asset reuse is one of the
core driver...
In this second article
about service-oriented
architecture (SOA), I
offer a concrete plan,
along with tips and
insights, to help you
build an effective SOA
roadmap, and to help
ensure the success of
your SOA initiative.
Web services have evolved
from plain
application-integration
enablers to value-added
stand-alone functionality
providers such as getting
a quote to a
comprehensive business
function like processing
orders. Enterprises are
exploiti...
Today's IT organizations
have tens of applications
and services that perform
some well-defined tasks
such as inventory,
billing, expense
reporting, and order
entry. With the evolution
of Internet and
e-business, enterprises
have s...
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts 
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi