May 2004 Archives

In response to 'test driven development', I propose 'stress driven architecture'.

"Mule is a light-weight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) messaging framework." It should be noted that Mule is not JMS.

A new version of JStress has just been released along with a sporty new web site.

Just bought a new PowerBook G4. The right speaker doesn't work, so I sent it in for repair, but it was returned in 24 hours with a note stating it worked within specifications.

Quick and dirty addition to the MS Entourage "Create Event from Message" AppleScript.

In response to the question posed in Business Drivers for Enterprise SOA, I think Todd might be looking for the words (popularly known as) "agility" and "synergy".

Epidemic Computing at Cornell is a concise discussion and history of research on epidemic techniques for scalability and gossip-style protocols.

ANTs is reportedly 20 times faster than some other RDBMS software.

Some online courses for statistical data analysis with references to R.

I'm surprised I haven't seen more indirection servers like javadocs.org and PURL. Using a tool like Url Rewrite Filter (or even mod_rewrite), a system to manage deep linking complexities can be built in a day.