Scott Densmore posted on how to get Enterprise Libraries installed and functional with Visual Studio 2008. For those you already using the DataDirect...

There's lots of industry noise about Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the expected benefits, but in many cases SOA is an implementation of procedural programming that may be implemented in Object Oriented (OO) technologies such as Java or .NET. That said, I cannot really see anything OO in a...

Many of you have been writing us positive comments about the technical content of this Blog. We are happy to hear you find the information in this pages useful; both Marc and...

We have been mentioning in several occasions - like here - that using XQuery in the context of Web services is an extremely powerful and flexible approach. The fact that XQuery and Web services share the same underlying data model (at least in the...

Lars Hansen asked a question about my last post, Are agility and chaos two sides of the same coin? He asked whether I really meant "chaos", or perhaps I meant "complexity".

I definitely...

We were excited to see Philip Howard's piece on the importance of a common data model. It was heartening to read our convictions about IT architecture espoused by someone with no overt commercial...

I blogged last week on submitting XQJ to the JCP for final approval. Yesterday, it successfully passed the Final Approval Ballot in the...

It would be unoriginal for me to submit some sort of apology for the delay between my posts, so I won't offer one. I'm unsure who would care if I neglected to include one anyhow. ^_^

One of the subjects that I have been doing a lot of business research into of late is one of the current...

In a previous post, I promised I'd explain how to avoid governing service consumers.  Now, let me say that not governing consumers is of critical importance because consumers just won't use a...