January 2004 Archives

The Case for a Session State Storage Layer. "This paper motivates the need for a session state storage layer."

"systemic architecture" results in a cross functional wealth from psychology, biology to signal processing, but little on the software enterprise.

Rake is a build tool written in Ruby. Thank you.

ModelObjects Group open source libraries. Includes Swing and template tools. Of course there aren't any download links from what I can find.

A new release of CarrierWave was released today. It has updated support for Hibernate.

Here I make good on my previous promise to define a place in architecture for CarrierWave.

In short, if you could break up an orchestrated enterprise into one pattern, it would look alot like MVC. CarrierWave is the container for the Model, the 'system of record'.

Up to this point in time, CarrierWave has been mostly an experiment.

It was intended that the result of the experiment would live in the continuum between the application server and object database. To provide client side type safety for vertical clients, and enough meta-data for horiztontal clients. And to provide a level of isolation between client and server developers to help maintain a wait free development cycle.

Christian (of Hibernate) gave a presentation at JavaPolis on Hibernate that included a few slides on CarrierWave. The PDF.

Dating Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Paired Programming by Ericha Gordon and Rickie Hanson and Rhonda Jackson and Jonna Disvlisses