We are constantly exposed to content management systems day to day and have a huge number of them (and it’s growing too!) in our CMS list. We have noticed more and more that people are having a hard time deciding how to choose the right CMS for the job. It’s not an easy task for some people, and...

Software, IT, strategy Gregory T. Huang wrote: On Tuesday night, I attended an intriguing event in the Washington Technology Industry Association’s cloud computing series, on “Scaling Into the Cloud with Amazon Web Services.” It was held at Amazon’s Beacon Hill headquarters i...

Sooner or later, every site or application will fail. However the consequences depend not only on how the failure is managed but also on how it is communicated. Recently the web hosting company Media Temple and even Google have well illustrated how hard it is for modern connected organizations to re...

What is Glue? Definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 1  a: any of various strong adhesive substances ; especially : a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous...

startups, Software, IT Gregory T. Huang wrote: It could be the most exciting cloud-computing startup you’ve never heard of. It’s two guys in a room overlooking Lake Union, in a hard-to-spot building next to the Fremont Bridge. And it uses Amazon Web Services and other people’s comp...

A couple of weeks back I have been working on a Web Service client tool for COM clients. With the SOAP Toolkit DOA one of the things that old (for me most FoxPro apps of clients) apps need to do is access Web Services and .NET is really become the only viable option if calling a complex service is r...

In an ongoing series on different reasons that I suck, I wanted to share another interesting quasi-debugging story about this public ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) service I'm trying to help get live at a large company. I'd mentioned how I had some trouble with UrlScan and Astoria Services in my po...

Has Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), which has been around for several years now, moved any closer to assuming the role of de facto standard? Not by Max Pucher’s estimates. Max took a hard look at the protocol, and found, in his opinion, industry-wide support to be lacking. “T...

For the first time we are holding a predictive ADME and Toxicology workshop in Oxford this summer.  It should be a valuable and rewarding experience that adds to our summer workshop activities there.  I believe we have a really good group of facilitators gathered that should make for an ...

A buddy of mine and I had a nice slap in the face yesterday. I was helping him deploy an ADO.NET Data Service to a large company's staging server  and we were seeing REALLY odd behavior. We'd request something like /myservice.svc and get a 404. But we could request /myservice.svc/Stuff or /myse...