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Christopher Bird

Real Life Caching

June 21, 2009 by Christopher Bird

The thought behind this post comes from the rich pageant of daily life with Madame. Yesterday morning we were discussing when she should visit her mother (a sprightly 96 year old who lives about 1,000 miles from us). So it was a matter of looking for d…

Categories Uncategorized Tags esoterica, flight of stairs, home, location, office, purse, rich pageant, security violation, transaction, weary legs

Architecture on the Product Side

June 5, 2009 by Christopher Bird

In an previous post, I wrote about the difference between the application of technology to the building of products, vs the application of technology in running the business. They are pretty different animals, if nothing else because of the way they a…

Categories Uncategorized Tags affinities, application, building, critical activities, cross product, individual products, post, Product, product organization, technology

Offbeat Integration Approaches

May 21, 2009 by Christopher Bird

I am collecting humerous terms for different kinds of integration. I will seed the discussion with a few, but would be interested in having others added, with descriptions in the comments to this posts. It would be delightful to have a large glossary o…

Categories Uncategorized Tags Approaches, attachment size, ball, Delivering, Discussion, integration approaches, oldies but goodies, seed, swivel chair, thumb drive

A gedanken on identity

May 8, 2009 by Christopher Bird

This post arises from conversations (over many years) with John Hall, the late Keith Robinson, Bob Brown, Keri Healy, Nigel Green, Richard Veryard and Fred Fickling. It has to do with how we identify things, immutability and most recently REST. So firs…

Categories Uncategorized Tags crew, golden fleece, immutability, information, keith robinson, nigel green, registrar, repair management, state, taxation

Services, SOA and Web Services

May 6, 2009 by Christopher Bird

This article (Can SOA Give You Good Service) identifies some of the troubles withwords when dealing with all the Service terms. I found it a very helpful article indeed because it helps keep Service and SOA on the straight and narrow. Nice call out of …

Categories Uncategorized Tags Customer, drilling reports, invocation, logical representation, machine, repeatable business, Service, SOA, soap messages, xml serialization
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