If you're thinking of implementing a proprietary API to expose the data in your application, think twice before you start! It can be a costly and cumbersome, and an API SDK can help save time and leave you with standards based connectivity to boot. It just so happens that our senior director of...

Or rather, pick on them, but save some energy for others committing the same SOA infrastructure crimes.

A lot of commotion around Microsoft "missing the SOA boat" in the blogosphere over the last couple of days. I find it interesting on a number of levels.

Why only pick on...

In today's post of the XQJ series, we'll have a closer look at how XQJ interacts with the XQuery type system. XQuery is a strongly typed...

Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices group have produced a plethora coding patterns in the form of software blocks that has garnered a huge following in the .NET developer space. Of note is the...

I recently wrote an article, "SOA and the importance of XQuery", published on "The SOA Magazine".

You can read the details in the article, but the point I make is that I believe XQuery will...

Now and then I'm asked for advice on XQuery books. There are two books I strongly recommend these days.

The first is My second recommendation is...

Today's post in the XQJ series explains how to access and manipulate the static context through the XQJ API.

XQuery defines the Static Context as...

Miko Matsumura had a thoughtful reply to my last post on whether SOA governance can make you less agile.  He's absolutely right that it depends on how you use governance.  So, I think it's worth clarifying then,...

I have this fantasy that I'll quit this labor of love here at Progress, and start a real career selling t-shirts with street-signs-that-would-be-funny-as-t-shirt-sayings. Always on the lookout for that breakout sign, today I found one to share.

I drove by this big rig with a sign on the...