You don’t need me to tell you that Cloud Computing is all the rage in IT shops around the world. And no wonder–the prospect of lowering costs, pay-as-you-go-pricing, and unlimited
In my last blog post, I made the presumably controversial claim that Representational State Transfer (REST) wasn’t about building APIs. Rather, REST is an architectural style for building distributed hypermedia
In the years following Roy Fielding’s seminal doctoral dissertation, it appeared that Representational State Transfer (REST) was the Next Big Thing in the world of enterprise IT. REST was the
In my last blog post, I introduced the topic of this blog: The Agile Architecture Revolution. As in, architecture that is agile, not the architecture of Agile. But since this
Microsoft is continuing to invest in LightSwitch — its new development environment that’s supposed to make it super-easy to build business software. Think of LightSwitch as being a “Visual Studio
After eight long years, it’s an honor and a privilege to return to DevX. But while our hiatus from this venue had gone on far too long, ZapThink has been
The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is big. But is it too big? And if so, should we do anything about it? The World Wide Web Consortium says that XML
No matter what language you prefer, whether it’s C/C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic or JavaScript, you are going to find lots of open source code to study and use. That’s
The biggest difference between iOS and Android has always been simple: Apple makes its own phones, operating system and cloud back-end, and sells essentially a single model of phone and