Interesting Articles

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Back to school

One thing that keeps me passionate about the field I work in is that the nature of the work demands that I constantly evolve as a technologist. Some key ingredients to that process is to pick up new skills on the job, read articles, attend conferences, learn from people smarter than me etc. However all this is very unstructured. Wouldn't it be nice if I could go back to school and add some structure to this learning process? At the same time I do not like to attend a full blown masters degree investing couple of years of time and top dollars for it. 

If all this sounds too familiar to you and you too want to go back to school albeit in a more  a la carte fashion you have a choice now. I recently attended couple of courses from the website Coursera. It is a free offering from the ivy league universities where some of their courses are being offered in this online forum. So if you are like me where you want to pick and chose some courses of your interest without having the propensity to     attend full scale degree program, then feel free to give this a ride.

 

Lightweight Architecture Alternative Assessment Method

I was reading through an InfoQ article on architecture in an agile world and came across the following link:

http://technogility.sjcarriere.com/2009/05/11/its-pronounced-like-lamb-not-like-lame/

The article is written by Jeromy Carriere, chief architect at eBay. This seems like a neat attempt to quantify the so called qualitative aspects of a software architecture. Would love to see QODA tool mentioned in the article at work,

REST bible

REST or Representational State Transfer has its origin in Roy Fielding's PHD thesis dissertation which is considered to be the REST bible. I added this to my latest "to be read" list. Speaking of REST, which has the idea of linking web resources at its core, it would be a shame if my blog entry doe not have the link to this dissertaion. So here it is:

Roy Fielding's PHD dissertation.

Happy reading during your "Rest" and Relaxation. I desperately need some. 



 

IBM submits Cloud Computing Reference Architecture

IBM has submitted their reference architecture for Cloud Computing to open group. The document can be downloaded from the this link