software

SOA is not a Technology, not a Reason… it’s an Evolution

April 4, 2008

I was just catching up on my RSS feeds when I ran across Dana Gardner’s latest post, “WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent” which evoked an odd sense of anxiety and the need to immediately jot down some of my SOA thoughts.  In short, Service-Oriented Architecture is a software design [...]

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Prior Art

February 25, 2008

Last Thursday I received an email from a friend, George Colombo, that pointed me to an article that Apple had filed a patent for “customized podcasts.”  I was immediately surprised and dismayed, quite frankly, because my business partner, Matt Thompson, and I had actually developed the technology (we called it Modcast) and implemented it on [...]

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Tech-Ed 2007 in Orlando

June 6, 2007

This week I’ve been attending Microsoft’s Tech-Ed 2007 conference here in Orlando at the gigantic Orange County Convention Center.  A group of us from work ascended upon Orlando on Sunday and Monday to check out new Microsoft technologies, do some recon on products we’ve recently brought into our “enterprise” and to get out of the office fray [...]

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VSLive! in Orlando

May 8, 2007

I’m excited and yet depressed about being at the VSLive! conference in Orlando, FL. I like going to conferences. I enjoy the experience of the hotels, the routines and the knowledge sharing. But it’s also very depressing and frustrating because it revolves around Microsoft.

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