Combining Enterprise Web
2.0's (EW2.0) ability to
deliver business-critical
applications over the Web
and Service Oriented
Architecture's (SOA)
capability to deliver
services provides a
solution that offers the
ubiquitous consumptio...
Last month I wrote about
vendor-driven
architectures (VDA), and
I had a few vendors ask
me to look on the other
side of the fence. In
essence, to consider how
vendors can better
address the needs of the
customer, considering the
n...
Despite the IT industry's
obsession with the 'next
big thing,' even valuable
innovations are often put
into context by legacy
systems. Your bank
account, mortgage, home
and auto insurance, and
pension are all likely to
be running on...
The primary purpose of
most business
applications is to bring
automation and efficiency
to the business. Outside
of a few examples, most
of our business
applications are required
to evolve along with our
business, and that, of
cou...
As the demand for new
medicines grows, so does
the need for better
information to manage and
execute the R&D
processes. There is huge
pressure to make informed
decisions, especially
during the project's
early stages when the
risk ...
Service Oriented
Architectures are
increasingly being used
to implement
high-performance and
real-time systems.
Traditional systems
operate in 'human
real-time,' where human
patience is the limit.
Increasingly, however,
systems ...
Recently I had a chance
to do some training in
France. I participated in
a week of coursework with
classmates from all over
the world. Some were from
France, Spain, Holland,
Sweden, and England;
others were from even
further - the U...
One of a CIO's top
priorities is to leverage
information to enable
better business decisions
and outcomes. Many CIOs
trace constraints on
their business back to
the limitations of older
legacy information
systems - specifically,
o...
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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
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This book is an update of
an earlier version that
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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