Bill Dudney's Weblog @ SOA WORLD MAGAZINE

Bill Dudney's Weblog

I am constantly blown away that the cool winding and twisting of life... I am done the Core Animation book, now just waiting for the iPhone NDA to lift so we can ship it. I started a book on iPhone for the prag's, which is very very fun and cool too.

Posted: Jun. 25, 2008 05:57 PM

Core Animation Screen Cast Episode 4 On Line

I finished Episode 4 up last night and the gerbils (i.e. Mike Clark) @ PragProg already turned it into a downloadable movie. You can grab it here. This episode came in a bit long (at 42 minutes) but I could not think of what to delete. The main th

Posted: Jun. 3, 2008 10:59 PM

Woot!

iPhone, key arrived, os installing, nothing to be said, NDA and all that, very excited... Lame attempt to be funny, hard to be silent.

Posted: May. 1, 2008 09:20 PM

Mac Developer Round Table

Scotty was kind enough to have me on the Mac Developer Roundtable tonight. If you are interested in WWDC or iPhone SDK please have a listen. It was tons of fun! Thanks again Scotty! For those of you coming here from Scotty's site check out my Core

Posted: Mar. 17, 2008 11:53 PM

New Mini Online...

As I documented here my poor old PPC mini was having trouble keeping up with the success of my wife's iPhone Games so I bought and configured a new Intel mini and shipped it off last week. It went on line yesterday and is now barely above 10% CPU usa

Posted: Feb. 26, 2008 03:24 PM

Coming Home...

Way back in college I had the great privilege of working on a NeXTCube (started on system 0.9, yes I'm old...) with Mathematica doing some really cool non-linear stuff. It was my first exposure to Unix (which of course spoiled me rotten) and I was ho

Posted: Feb. 3, 2008 12:13 AM

Zero G?

So way back in the day when I worked at NASA one of the projects I was involved in was the space suits for Reagan's space station. That was supposed to be assembled from K'enx type things and they needed new suits to give the astronauts more time in

Posted: Jan. 23, 2008 08:18 PM

Alfresco on OS X - ImageMagic and OpenOffice

Alfreso is a fantastic ECM solution that has some amazing features and some great momentum. It has been more than a year since I've used Alfresco and man have they gotten some cool stuff done. I spent the last couple of days getting certified to te

Posted: Nov. 29, 2007 10:32 AM

Maven - Choose Your Pain (Re: mostly hate)

So I generally feel that using maven or ant or make or shell scripts, building is a pain in the neck and what ever way you choose you will have pain. You get used to the pain of one kind or another and sort of grow to like that sort of pain and you f

Posted: Nov. 13, 2007 08:31 AM

Java on Leopard - enough complaining

So while reviewing the release notes for Java on Leopard I noticed a couple of interesting bits. First they included junit 4.1 and maven 2.0.6 in the mix, which is great (except that maven 2.06 had some serious bugs with transitive dependencies). mvn

Posted: Oct. 31, 2007 03:19 PM

Adobe's Kevin Lynch and Microsoft's Scott Guthrie to Keynote AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

By RIA News Desk

Two of the biggest launches in Rich Internet Application history took place in 2007/2008 when Adobe

SOA: Preparing for Mashups

By David Linthicum

It's important to remember that there is a huge resource being created on the Web these days in term

Best Practices for SOA: Building a Data Services Layer

By John Goodson; Jason Bloomberg

These days nearly every sizable organization has either implemented some form of SOA or has it on th

The Unreliable Internet

By Michael Galpin

The Internet's a dangerous place for a message. Component failures, network connection issues, and o

SOA World Editorial - Discovering Dr. Dolittle

By Sean Rhody

From the title, you might be thinking that I'm about to start this month's editorial with a referenc

SOA or DOA

By Hon Wong

Web applications built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) promise to greatly improve IT effici

Mashups Accelerating and SOA Is Along for the Ride

By David Linthicum

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that mashups are moving from things that are concep

IBM Empowers Business Users with Customized Web 2.0 Software

By Web 2.0 News Desk

IBM announced IBM Mashup Center will be hosted as a free trial on the Web with which non-technical b

SOA Governance vs SOA Management

By Sean Rhody

It seems like not a day goes by lately in which some new story of malfeasance in office doesn't come

Virtualization - Cisco Reportedly Creates SOAP-Slipping RPC Protocol

By Maureen O'Gara

According to CIO.com, Cisco has a new SOAP-replacing messaging protocol called Etch, born out of its

Timing the Market with Distributed Genetics

By Derek Ferguson

I've always been puzzled by the ability of some traders to consistently make money. A cynic would sa

Layer 7 Technologies Expands SOA Into Belgian Market

By SOA World Magazine News Desk

Layer 7 Technologies announced its go-to-market partnership with Steria Benelux. Steria will act as

SOA World - Growing an SOA Garden

By Stuart Smith

Adopting SOA is a lot like gardening. It takes time, skill, a lot of hard work, and the process can

Long-Tail SOA and the Mythology of Re-Use

By Marc Rix

Not all services are created equal. It would be great if implementing SOA were simply a matter of ap

SOA World - SOA SDLC: On-Demand

By Rami Jaamour

Spending time with my parents over the holidays got me thinking about the differences between this g

SOA's Second Act: Dynamic Documents Top the Agenda

By Jake Sorofman

While SOA has traditionally had something of a data obsession. While the focus has been on service-e

A SOA Adaptation Strategy

By Ramy Abaas

Interoperability is the ability of two or more systems to work with each other. In the loosely coupl

Can Agile Development & Model-Driven Design Solve the Broken Delivery Process?

By Jack Kennedy

The software delivery process has long faced many challenges, many of which are exacerbated by the n

EDI to XML: A Practical Approach

By Carlo Innocenti

While EDI transactions account for most worldwide commercial activity, XML-based alternatives are be

Why Enterprise Architects Continue to Fall Short with SOA

By David Linthicum

If you read this column and listen to my podcasts, you know that I call SOA what SOA is - an archite