Topic: Software Development
In a typically idiosyncratic talk that could be subtitled "State of the Onion 9.3", Larry Wall offers yet another way of examining the state of the Perl language and its community of users and coders. This time he addresses the concepts underlining Perl - and his own view of the world - alphabetically, treating his audience to insights that manage to be simultaneously humorous and thought-provoking.
When thinking about the technology and the Department of Defense, what generally comes to mind are the technologies involved with fighting a war; weaponry, information gathering, and transportation, for example. Less obvious but no less important is the role of information technology. In this session from the SOA Executive Forum in November 2005, Major Joe Paiva discusses the implmentation of a Services Oriented Architecture in the Armed Forces.
Open source software and Web 2.O are changing computer and software economics. Tight, centralized control of intellectual property is under attack. Free, self-service access to code, content, and communities helps build new platforms, products, and services. Is rapid, free and open the future? Tim O'Reilly, Mitchell Baker, and Jonathan Schwartz discuss how open source innovation is changing the world.
Mary Meeker's signature fast-paced presentation from the 2005 Web 2.0 conference answers some crucial questions regarding the relationship between internet trends and global technology markets. In particular, she examines whether - and in which areas - the US is losing ground to other countries and which internet-related innovations will lead to areas of substantial growth in the next 10 years.
Adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide both technical and competitive advantages for an organization. Jaime Sguerra gives details of both the benefits and the challenges for Guardian Life in its transition to an SOA implementation. Sguerra outlines key reasons for doing this and how Guardian chose to deal with the challenges of: multiple platform support; distributed IT organizations; and lack of alignment between IT and the business centers.
Security is not a feature - it's a requirement for today's software. According to Gary McGraw, the good news about software security is that we know how to do it, but the bad news is that we aren't. In this interview with Sondra Schneider, Dr. McGraw describes how to build secure software and what the security challenges are for the software industry.
As many American innovators are pleased with the defeat of the broadcast flag in the United States and move on to other concerns, the television and motion picture industries have turned their attention to Europe as the next battleground in the copyright and infringement war. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cory Doctorow calls on open source innovators in Europe to fight for their rights as well.
SOA is "the next big thing" and although everyone uses the term SOA, everyone means something different. For Andy Brown of Merrill Lynch, it is a framework architecture and a way of thinking. At the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum, he argues that "SOA provides an integrated architecture that empowers us to deliver client focused solutions," and explains how Merrill Lynch is leveraging the power of SOA.
Calendar sharing between different types of devices and desktops remains an unsolved problem. At ApacheCon, host Scott Mace talked to Lisa Dusseault, co-author of CalDAV, an open and interoperable protocol for calendar access and sharing. In this conversation, Dusseault explains the history of calendar standard efforts, the WebDAV standard underlying current efforts, and the open source Chandler client, Cosmo server and Scooby Web interface, which will support these standards.
Imagine a one-stop shop where you can use one consistent interface to arrange any service--airline reservations, shipping packages, appliance repair--through any supplier. Amazon.com lets us buy almost any product, but where can we go to order services? Rearden Commerce's Mark Orttung says he has built such a "Services on Demand" application, and it has been called the killer app of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
