Jesse Ezell Blog

“I had to laugh when I ran across this article on USA Today that talked about how the Mars rovers ran Java. Let me add to the jokes thatare already spreading:

Aaron Skonnard points out this super cool preview video of Whitehorse (the visual designer stuff for web based systems coming soon from MS).

Ron Jacobs is of the oppinion that the community should build their own application blocks. His proposal is quite interesting, because Microsoft would furnish test cases and do some design work and then let the community build the blocks themselves. The reason he gives is that the PAG could never really build all the blocks the want to build, so the community (who apparently has lots of extra time on its hands) could build them themselves.

If you haven't heard already, Dave made the trek to Redmond. You can find a pretty extensive overview of what he had to say here:

...which is quite suprising at first, considering that Scoble is about 9x more likely to post at any given moment. But then again, if you follow Scoble, you should realize that he posts so much nonsense that 90% of what he writes doesn't deserve any google juice anyway ;-).

As we move toward SOA based approaches, we face an interesting dilema. What happens when your service provider goes out of business (or when they kill a product line, or say, like MS tends to say after a few years “upgrade now or die“)? Unlike a software company whose components you have purchased going out of business, this could be potentially devastating to your application's infrastructure. How will you deal with this situation? Does your SLA cover you? Is this outside the scope of a SLA? I have a feeling this may become a hot topic as we move toward service oriented architectures. One major side-effect of this dilema may be the creation of serious barriers to entry for smaller software companies (which have a hard enough time with large licensing deals when they are shipping binaries).

Pat Hellend is over on The Server Side talking about distributed computing. Highly recommended.

Another preview, search for the most linked blogs in a time period and narrow by term, such as “Avalon“ or “WinFS“: