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@ 10:58 pm, 11/20/08

Entries for April 2008

SOA is not a Technology, not a Reason... it's an Evolution

Posted by Jonathan Brown

April 04, 2008

I was just catching up on my RSS feeds when I ran across Dana Gardner's latest post, "WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent" which evoked an odd sense of anxiety and the need to immediately jot down some of my SOA thoughts.  In short, Service-Oriented Architecture is a software design principle which attempts to break apart monolithic applications into loosely coupled systems, usually based around business processes.  SOA has been up in our grills for a few years now, and as Gardner suggests the adoption is relatively low for the hype.  I've not checked, but I imagine SOA is in the "trough of disillusionment" on Gartner's hype cycle.  I believe I have some insight into the slow or non-adoption of SOA in the enterprise.

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Tags: software, development, soa, service-oriented-architecture

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Beach Bug

Posted by Jonathan Brown

April 03, 2008

Beach Bug

A sand sculpture on Siesta Key Beach.

Posted from my Flickr account.

Tags: beach, siestakey, sarasotafl, springbreak2008

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Alexandra at the Beach

Posted by Jonathan Brown

April 03, 2008

Alexandra at the Beach

Alexandra plays in the white sands of Siesta Key Beach.

Posted from my Flickr account.

Tags: alexandra, beach, siestakey, sarasotafl, springbreak2008, twippeople

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Frog Fish

Posted by Jonathan Brown

April 03, 2008

Frog Fish

Frog Fish at the Mote Aquarium in Sarasota, FL.

Posted from my Flickr account.

Tags: nature, sarasotafl, springbreak2008, wildlife, nautical, moteaquarium

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Point of Rocks

Posted by Jonathan Brown

April 03, 2008

Point of Rocks

The Point of Rocks on Siesta Key Beach.

Posted from my Flickr account.

Tags: beach, siestakey, sarasotafl, springbreak2008

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MeI’m Jonathan Brown. I write software during the day, I bootstrap businesses at night and I’m a father on weekends. It’s not how I designed it, but that’s how it worked out.

Oddly enough, I hate reading and love writing. I can’t find time to do either. I only read non-fiction—typically business books and magazines.

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