link blog 6_9_2008

InfoQ: Does My Bus Look Big in This?
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/soa-without-esb

Martin Fowler and other thoughtworks guy on the evil of middleware stacks. Funny presentation. Light on alternatives though.

JavaScript Closures for Dummies | Developing thoughts — Morris Johns
http://blog.morrisjohns.com/javascript_closures_for_dummies.html

Practical explanation for closures, in this case in javascript

Ted On Flex: Flex 3 – Thursday: Dramatically Smaller Flex SWF Files
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/06/flex-3-thursday-dramatically-smaller.php

One thing the ajax guys like to say about flex/flash is files are too big. Looks like next player will make this no longer the case.

Look Out Oracle: MapReduce Might Be Able To Do JOINs | Bex Huff
http://bexhuff.com/2008/06/look-out-oracle-mapreduce-might-be-able-to-do-joins

Oracle's clock is ticking…?

Technology Architecture & Projects: Enterprise Architecture: A Joke, A Failure…or an Opportunity?

http://enterprisearchitect.typepad.com/ea/2008/06/interesting-dis.html

Enterprise Architecture: A Joke, A Failure…or an Opportunity?