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The Business Value of SOA
Having heard about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) for a long time without having any idea what it is, I was happy to discover this talk by Anne Thomas Manes which finally sheds light on the subject for me.
Key points for me:
SOA aims to tackle the problem of too much cost and redundancy in enterprise IT If [...]
Bollywood Blackboard!
Oh, this just makes my day.
Here’s a small series of humorous episodes related to recent Blackboard and Open Source Learning Management Systems. The mashups are made with snippets of classic Hindi Bollywood films, overlaid with user created subtitles, from a fun online tool called BombayTV from Grapheine. The role of Blackboardwala [...]
Interface21 now SpringSource
I guess this happened late last year, but it escaped my notice: Interface21, the company behind the Spring Framework, has changed its name to SpringSource and has a spiffy new website to go with it.
The Spring Framework has come to be synonymous with enterprise Java. It’s a great example of the cream rising to the [...]
Sakai Featured at eLearn Magazine
The current top story at eLearn Magazine is about the proliferation, albeit slowly, of open source software in higher education. Laurie Rowell cites various studies that suggest Sakai and Moodle adoption are growing quickly, but that even so CIOs like to take their time and make sure they know which way the wind is blowing.
I [...]