t was the final night of the SD West conference in Santa Clara, CA, as attendees wandered the hotel, seeking the locations of the different BOF (bird of a feather)
t’s time again to open up your developer’s toolbox and make room for the new must-have tool, virtual machines. As a software consultant, I find myself traveling from customer to
ervice Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an increasingly common buzzword in today’s industry. The benefits of a Web services-oriented framework are well appreciated, but not always well-understood. Enterprises planning to convert
o far, you and I have journeyed through the realm of class diagrams. Classes are a good start for understanding how an application is hooked together, and while they describe
lthough AOP and MDA were developed from very different viewpoints: programming vs. modeling; weaving many inputs into one output vs. creating many outputs from one input, there is a great
hen Gerald Weinberg began working in the information technology industry, he wasn’t hired as a software developer or a programmer?not because he wasn’t qualified for these positions, but because they
he concept of time travel has been a staple of science fiction since the entertainment genre was invented. Whether it’s H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine,” Doc Brown’s DeLorean in “Back
n Part 2 we looked at associations, which are nothing more than references, but they can be directional and represent multiplicity. If we were restricted to our ability to generate
ave you ever needed to populate a database with realistic, but generated (as opposed to actual) data, in volumes that demand automation? Such a need arises in many circumstances, such