Julie Lerman recently told me that I do not blog enough about the effect that the weather has on my job. I am constantly looking to the weather channel and other sites for the latest on the next “Big One”. Well unfortunately last week Charley decided to become that storm. This is where the true sould of the organization I work for, the American Red Cross really shows through. I was on “vacation” in lovely Annapolis, MD, celebrating my 7th wedding anniversary when the call ......
Rich Turner recently warned us about the danger of calling everything SOA. I have to state that I have witnessed this first hand. In some of more “recent” posts, I mentioned the processes of deciding to use Sonic Software vs. BizTalk Server 2004. During this process it was very clear that the Architects on our teams and the Architects from Microsoft were talking to different languages but delivering the same message. They couldn't agree on terms for the same concepts. For example, in ......