My good friend Paul (who has started more new blogs than I've had hot dinners) now has a new new blog: Like so much acronym soup. Nice name, and as you could probably guess, it's focussing on the service oriented architecture side of IT (which some like to refer to as WS-Deathstar, but they can't even get the hang of persisting content, so caveat emptor).
3G. GPRS. SOA. EPF. OpenUP. SCRUM. GA. WPS. SCA. ESB. XSLT. DOM. XML. REST. UDDI. ATOM. HTML. CSS. WAS. Dude, perhaps you should have a glossary for the ingredients of your soup? (For those familiar with the ingredients, that gives you a good taste of the overall flavour of the blog. Hah. I'll stop killing the metaphor now, mmmk?)
Already there's a wealth of interesting articles on there, and I will enjoy watching Paul's gradual journey to enlightenment discovering that SOA is bloatware that legacy SIs use to justify their existence sometimes less is more, and REST hits the sweet spot 99% of the time.
Skepticism aside, It strikes me that some of the things Paul writes about would make an interesting conference (or unconference) session - for example SOA Rules of Engagement, which could just as easily work as Generic Software Project Rules of Engagement. How about it, Paul?
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Posted by savs at February 25, 2008 5:19 AM