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November 06

Blog is Moving

 
I am moving my blog to http://donald-ferguson.net/blog. Live Spaces requires users to create a Live ID before commenting on pages or blog entries. I prefer to allow anyone to cmment.
 
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October 30

This Blog's Agenda

 
I will post the future topics for this blog, and would appreciate comments on topics that interest you. I will also adjust the ordering based on your interest. The current next coupe of topics are:
  1. Clarify the concept of the ESB and ISB, and the various perspectives.
  2. The four styles of composition applications and SOA. I wrote a blog on this topic at IBM. I offered to continue blogging at IBM, but they declined.
  3. Comments around how a company moves to SOA, but focusing on their business impediments. This was a common question in Hong Kong, and previously.
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October 25

Hong Kong Presentation Topics

My presentation is in the file folder on this Spaces site (scroll down).
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Hong Kong Presentation and Topics

The customers in the audience at my presentation were mostly Chief Information Officers and senior executives. They asked some interesting questions, which have arisen in many briefings. I will talk about some of them in subsequent blog entries, mostly to stimulate discussion.
  1. People were interested in BizTalk Services (http://labs.biztalk.net).
  2. There were lots of questions on how enterprise fund common services, evolve their organization, etc. These comments arise frequently, and I will give my humble observations in subsequent blogs.
  3. Web 2.0, mashups, end-user programming, etc.

I talked a lot about patterns, which occur at three levels:

  1. Low level product patterns, like which products and versions to use.
  2. General patterns for solving specific business problems, indepdently of the technology chosen. There is an ESB pattern at http://www.codeplex.com/esb, but it mixes the general pattern with a product pattern.
  3. Business patterns, describing how customers organize themselves for SOA.

We are doing a good job of (1), but not (2) and (3). We need to fix it.

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Hong Kong

I am in Hong Kong speaking at a customer conference (about 50). They asked some interesting questions, and I will discuss the topics in the next couple of blog entries. There were three interesting travel experience:
  1. They had a small box of hard candies at the passport control counter and at the hotel reception counter. Either
    • They new that I was coming and I have bad breath, or
    • Everyone has such a long flight that we all need a little mouth freshening. (I am hoping it is this one).
  2. I saw a new apartment building that had an add that said "Aspire to the new Zen Tower Luxury Apartments." I thought that this missed the whole point of Buddhism.
  3. I got money from an ATM machine in the airport arrival hall. Next to the keypad was a small label advetising Campbell's Soup. I thought that was a bit odd.
  4. Frequent visitors to Hong Kong have dedicated, priority lanes at passport control. One of the lanes was for "Taiwan frequent visotr scheme." I like the word scheme.

 

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