Dazed & Confused

A little over a year ago I linked to a couple of articles regarding internationalisation and charactersets here. Now I’m doing the same thing all over again, and I of course forgot one small step. For a really extensive and good overview of everything check out this excellent article, read it for in depth info. [...]

Searching for something completely else I ran across the XBean config stuff for Spring on Craig Walls blog. It shows you how to smplify your XML configurations in Spring. Something to check out soon.

Grady Booch has a good post about SOA here. He called it Snake Oil-oriented Architecture, but I thought I could make it just a bit more tabloid.
People jump on the SOA bandwagon because the preachers say so, when there are so many other fundamental design and architecture issues to consider before you can [...]

Ted Neward has an entry on how some people in the .NET community is a bit ignorant to the mistakes made by Java folks in the past here. Sadly the same mistake is still beeing made in Javaland today, but it’s probably getting better. 4 layers if indirection doesn’t help much if 100% of the [...]

Alright, I’m way too busy these days to read through all of this, so this is more of a toread. I found an article on schema evolution over at Martin Fowlers bliki. Check it out here, it looks good on first glance. It relates to a lot of the stuff we’re doing these days with [...]