October 2004 Archives

We've all heard the term System of Record. Turns out there are a couple other generalized logical systems typically found in a business. Here is a quick attempt to model those systems.

Just returned from what I thought was intended to be a discussion over patterns and best practices within an ESB deployment, likely sourced with examples from this new book, since the meeting was hosted by its author. Sadly it proved to be ESB "as" a best practice, where they handed out copies of the book, leaving the interesting discussion as homework.

OWL Full and UML 2.0 Compared. The pdf has pictures.

NetKernel has a great pipes/filters framework for composing services. Kowari is the only non-rdbms backed RDF triple-store with support for queries against datetime data types.

An iTunes-LAME encoder from the people (person) who developed QuickSilver.

R 2.0 for MacOS X has been released.

PRISM has released standards for "publishers to use for delivery of content to web sites and to aggregators and syndicators" named PRISM Aggregator.

Sxip Network (or Simple eXensible Identity Protocol) provides a frame work for single sign-on and managing distributed identities between systems.

I'm exploring TextMate as a decent replacement for a combination of IDEA, Taco, and BBEdit for editing plain text files such as Ruby code, XML, and HTML.

Additionally, check out Quicksilver.

A Distributed Lock Manager can be found on the IBM OSS site.