Article :: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence: Where We Are, How We Got Here, and How to Fix It

IT has become the single-most visible point of latency when a business needs to change. However, it does not have to be this way. David S. Linthicum discusses how things got off track and how SOA and Cloud Computing can fix it.

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Article :: The Drupal Page

This chapter addresses ways to modify the preprocess function so that you can prepare and alter page template variables, and alert Drupal of new page templates.

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Article :: Regular Expressions in Python 3

Mark Summerfield discusses using regular expressions in Python 3, including Python's regular expression language and the regular expression module.

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Article :: Increasing Organizational Capability through the People CMM

Learn how to increase your organizational capability throught the People CMM, which applies the principles of the process maturity framework to the domain of workforce practices.

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Article :: Design Patterns in Ruby: Picking the Right Class with a Factory

In this chapter, Russ Olsen at both the Factory Method pattern and the Abstract Factory pattern. He also shines a light on some dynamic Ruby techniques that will help you build factories more effectively.

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Article :: SOA Pattern (#8): ESB

The ESB is a compound pattern that pulls together many enablement and enforcement capabilities that come in handy to the SOA practitioner. Thomas Rischbeck explains it here.

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Article :: SOA Pattern of the Week (#5): Service Decomposition

The Service Decomposition pattern provides a technique for splitting up a service after its initial deployment into two or more fine-grained services.

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Article :: SOA Pattern (#10): Service Refactoring

At some point during its lifetime a service might need to be enhanced or modified as a result of an external or an internal stimulus. The Service Refactoring design pattern addresses this issue in a manner so that the existing service consumers are not affected by the required change.

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Article :: The Three Python Tenors Sing "Threads" and "State of Mind"

Dave Beazley, Wesley Chun, and Mark Summerfield discuss Python performance, the reasons you might (or might not) want to move to Python 3, how new Python programmers should approach the language, multicore programming, and the difficulty of keeping technical books useful.

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Article :: Project-Oriented SOA

This article introduces an effective technique for moving your SOA program forward through an incremental, project-based approach.

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Article :: Implementing SOA Using Java EE: Evolution of Service Oriented Architecture

In this chapter, the authors first explore the concept of service orientation and then analyze how the emergence of different architectures' combined paradigm shifts in enterprise technologies led to the evolution of web services and SOA.

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Article :: Creating Pages and Content in Microsoft Expression Web 3

Jim Cheshire shows you how to create pages in Microsoft Expression Web 3, including how to import files, format text, create hyperlinks, configure page properties, use code snippets, and configure file editors.

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Article :: Distributed Ruby: Mark Bates Sheds New Light

Sometimes Ruby code is too cool to run on just one computer at a time. In this interview with Hal Fulton, Mark Bates explains how he defines distributed programming, reasonable concerns about Ruby performance, and how to choose Ruby libraries.

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Article :: WordPress in Depth: Using HTML in Your Widgets and Blog

In this chapter, learn how HTML can be used in the WordPress.com environment. This is useful whether you just want to do a few simple things with your blog postings and the Text widget, or if you want to go much further.

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