"If you build something new there is no reason why you shouldn't use this kind of architecture. However, focusing on the events is not the only thing you should do."

(1) The Agile Adults Have Their Say (2) Book Review: Eating the IT Elephant and (3) Hot Links

If you are not yet using virtualization in your build environment, then it's time to get moving.

"If you're still using HTML, JavaScript, complicated server deployments, and other technologies that don't "just work," try downloading the free Adobe Flex 3 SDK, a trial edition of Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional, and the free developer edition of Adobe ColdFusion 8 to begin building better web applications with fewer headaches."

In Java MQ terminology, if you require only high service availability, you should use either conventional clusters or parallel brokers.

"In 2008, identity, authentication, and the concept of a user profile can be untethered from proprietary data stores and become an interchangeable part of the Web as HTML itself."

"This is not a post in defense of outsourcing." "This post attempts to place outsourcing in an overall economics based perspective and explores some of the future trends in how they are likely to impact software quality"

"..., you will learn not only how to iterate over and increment a string, but how to manage whitespace, convert a string, and more. It is excerpted from chapter four of Learning Ruby, written by Michael Fitzgerald (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596529864)"

Automation expert Paul Duvall demonstrates how the open source LiquiBase database-migration tool can reduce the pain of managing the constant of change with databases and applications.

"In this final installment, I widen the focus to present techniques for gathering performance and availability data from the application's dependencies, such as the underlying operating system, the network, or the application's backing operational database."

"Here in Part 2, I focus on methods of instrumenting Java classes and resources without modifying the original source code."

"My Job Went to India is at this very moment (but probably not by the time you’re reading this) the number one best seller in Amazon’s India travel books category."

"this article has shed some light on the Bluetooth device- and service-discovery processes. As you learned, caching your known connection URLs can greatly increase the performance of your application, since you don't need to employ the device- and service-discovery processes subsequently."

"it's no longer just about IT adding value to the business; it's also about the business adding value to IT." "Each developer or architect should always be able to "validate his worth" by assessing his skills against the current market and against the vision and direction of his current organization." "Every IT person should be able to take stock of their skill set and validate that their skills match with what they are being paid to do."

Three of the most prominent open source/Java languages are JRuby, a Java implementation of Ruby; Jython, a Java implementation of Python; and Groovy, an object-oriented programming language for the Java platform

Googling has officially become a verb. Having your brand name used as a generic term, is of course, a mixed blessing for a company.

Microsoft Corp. joined with industry and advocacy group leaders worldwide to unveil new software that will make it easier for anyone to create documents and other content that is accessible for blind and print-disabled individuals.

Here is an addition to the list of anti-patterns that Stefan recently posted. The pattern is to let the client "think" that is using verbs other than GET and POST, but piggyback such requests over GET or POST. This was originally started by the GData folks via the X-HTTP-Method-Override header. Rails came along and baked its version for faking PUT, and DELETE over POST.

Inversion of Control (IoC) and Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) can be effective tools for implementing dynamic business workflows. In this article, the first in a two-part series, Bilal Siddiqui describes business workflows' dynamic nature and proposes a two-layer workflow model that lets you use XML to build configurable and flexible solutions.

A proof-of-concept Ruby on Rails web application that runs entirely on Amazon Web Services.

When you run a small business, you're usually running too fast and hard to think about data backups. Then something terrible happens—a hardware failure, an employee or contractor gets sloppy and kills a month's worth of work—and you realize that you better slow down and figure out a few things.

Processing images can be a tedious, error-prone, and repetitive task. It may involve many moving parts, and bandwidth or processor time that you don’t have (or can’t easily afford). Setting up a system that allows you to process images provided by web users could bog you down if you don’t have enough disk space or enough CPU to handle the demand. We decided to create a straightforward solution that would allow users to upload an image and then process that image with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

This tip describes an application that highlights the fact that developing PHP applications is relatively easy using OpenSolaris technologies. Although the sample app runs on the OpenSolaris OS, it also runs on the Linux, Mac OS, or Windows operating system with the Apache, MySQL, PHP (AMP) stack of software.

This tech tip demonstrates a standalone Java client that accesses two web services, one implemented as a servlet and the other implemented an a stateless session bean.

This Tech Tip presents a sample application that uses SIP servlets and HTTP servlets to provide VoIP phone service.