IT is just IT

I was recently re-certified as Level 3 Software Engineer by Capgemini's Global Certification Board. In this article I elaborate on how I used the Software Engineering Certification Program for my personal career development. Having a regular check up on the things that surround you has become a fact of live in our society which depends highly on technology. Sometimes these inspections are required by law,like the periodic motor vehicle test for my car. You have the condition of your central heating checked in the fall, to make sure it doesn't break down on the first day of winter. Or you just want to take good care of yourself and have your teeth checked by your dentist every half year to spot tooth decay early. So basically you have a regular check on to make sure everything functions to expectation and is up to the mark. As a certified and qualified professional software engineer I also need to make sure my skills are up to the mark. The professional standards which came...

Infragistics , the guys that are powering the UI layer, are showing of their Silverlight capabilities with their glossy restyled UI Pattern Library . This kind of demo makes me envious. It's about time I start delivering this kind of solutions to my clients myself. I guess it's back to the drawing board and figure out how I can mash this together.

Today I was struggeling with howto route messages through a complex service infrastructure. As usual I consulted Dr. G. Oogle. The doctor was so kind to refer me to http://www.soapatterns.org . The site is a gold nugget for SOA patterns. And I think I will take look at the companion book SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl.

Speaker: Dan Roam Description: Let's face it: describing user experience is hard... unless we use pictures. This session demonstrates step-by-step how anyone, regardless of artistic talent or training, can use simple pictures to describe complex design and technical concepts, solve fuzzy problems, and sell others on breakthrough ideas: The Back of the Napkin: Solving Design Problems (and Selling Your Solutions) with Pictures

Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2, Part 1

I'm currently familiarize myself with the Microsoft's concept of Domain-Specific Languages. And I must say I'm having a hard time collecting usefull information on the concept. It seems that beside the content in the MSDN Library and a rare presentation on Channel 9 there is not much information out there on the web. Well let's see where the subject takes me. Anyway, this subject should keep be busy this week, before I plunge down in the world of Cordys for 4 weeks.

SOA = given a generic service capability of a service provider the ability to dynamically apply business rules on the generic business processes and the generic information objects to create specific processes and specific objects which are able to respond to the specific service requests from service consumers in a certain context.