I was doing some investigation into web service security, and ran across another nifty IBM tool: SMash. Smash (meaning secure mashups) is basically a technology designed to solve security problems when writing a mashup (a.k.a. situational application). These applications generally consume...

I read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today.  It was on a topic totally unrelated to SOA, but carried an important message hidden within it:  Power is shifting to the users and away...

I figured that since David Bressler did a gratuitous blog posting about his Macbook Air that I needed to do the same about mine.

Now, I'm not a Mac fanboy.  This is the first Mac I've owned and I got...