One thing
I’ve been doing a lot of writing recently (most of it yet to be published) on a specific topic that I first wrote about here a while back. The topic is important because it’s the answer to a question I...
View ArticleThe Lost Art of Separating Concerns
I’ve elaborated on an earlier blog post about reuse over at InfoQ with an article titled The Lost Art of Separating Concerns. Check it out and let me know if this helps you understand REST’s value-add...
View ArticleValidation considered harmful
We don’t get a lot of enjoyment about trampling sacred cows here at Coactus, honest we don’t. But we see so much bad practice out there – more so recently – that we feel compelled to speak out. Today’s...
View ArticleTwo more reasons why validation is still harmful
Another way to look at the validation problem is through the eyes of a software architect. We’re often concerned about “encapsulation”, the practice of keeping related business logic and data together....
View ArticleStarting with the Web
Starting with the Web A position paper for the W3C Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing, by Mark Baker of Coactus Consulting. My position For those that might not be aware of my...
View ArticleW3C Workshop slides online
My slides for the W3C Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop. It’s a short presentation because I anticipated (and received!) lots of questions. The objective was to drill down to the...
View ArticleThoughts on the W3C Enterprise Services Workshop
It’s been a week since the W3C Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing wrapped up, and I’ve had some time to reflect on it. On the plus side, there’s been some very welcome progress in Web...
View ArticleDavid Baron on versioning
David Baron of Mozilla has chimed in on a topic near and dear to much of the work we do at Coactus. It looks like it’s part one of a series; I look forward to the rest. One observation; it looks like...
View ArticleREST at OOPSLA
I’m pleased to announce that Stuart Charlton and I have had our tutorial proposal for OOPSLA ’07 accepted. Our topic, as you can probably guess, is REST and the Web, and the (working) title is The Web:...
View ArticleMobile Ajax Workshop position paper
This is the position paper we recently submitted to the W3C/OpenAjax Workshop on Mobile Ajax. The best mobile Ajax application … is the one that’s never written A position paper for the W3C/OpenAjax...
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