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• VMWare Fusion 3.0 - It's FAST

  VMWare released VMWare Fusion 3.0 on October 27, 2009 . Among many enhancements and features, the most anticipated is compatibility with Max OSX Snow Leoparf 10.6 - specifically VMWare guests become 64-bit processes in this release. After they resolved... Posted Oct 28 2009, 07:40 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed, personal

• Parallels 4.0.3846 - Networking Problems Solution...

  Using Parallels 4.0, a desktop virtualization product, has been productive. The interface is great, performance has never been a problem - my Mac easily handles two VMs running at the same time under Parallels 4.0. An intermittent networking problem surfaced... Posted Sep 22 2009, 02:26 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed, mac

• ArtOfBabel.com - Call for Articles

  Art Of Babel is seeking articles about integration technologies, techniques, and approaches including EAI, BPM, SOA, ESB, and a broad range of other three letter acronyms. Interested? Write a 200-250 word synopsis of your article and send it to ' ); document... Posted Mar 10 2009, 08:49 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: writing, Op-Ed

• Opening Soon - Preview ArtOfBabel.com

  ArtOfBabel.com , a new online magazine about integration, is opening soon! I run the magazine and am positioning it to be a useful resource for architects, developers, and business decision makers. Art Of Babel is an independent online magazine covering... Posted Feb 23 2009, 10:48 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed

• Visitor Traction

  Thanks for your questions - I’m happy to answer them when I have time. Your questions are one of the major sources of information I use for ideas for new articles or posts. I sometimes take an indirect approach – I read a lot of questions, answer them... Posted Jan 27 2009, 07:08 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed

• Top 5 Ways to Simplify Your SOA

  SOA-style solutions can seem complex; however, doing a few easy things can make SOA projects a lot simpler. In this article, I describe the top five ways you can simplify a new SOA project, or bring some more order to an SOA project that has gone astray... Posted Jan 07 2009, 08:27 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed, Services

• Believe It Or Else -- SOA is Dead!

  The idea that SOA is complex is promoted by those those that benefit from providing complex solutions, usually at great expense and over a long period of time. The fact is SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, is an architectural paradigm – SOA is not a... Posted Jan 06 2009, 05:37 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed, Services

• True Blue?

  It was then, as he closed the door behind him for the last time that he realized just how much the relied on it - so much that he was no longer necessary. The term "cloud computing" refers to a deployment and use approach that delivers IT-related computing... Posted Oct 28 2008, 06:50 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed

• Oslo: Pipe Dream or Silver Bullet?

  Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent... Posted Oct 21 2008, 07:22 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed

• Hello, MacBook Pro

  I own(ed) a Dell notebook. Lots of memory, lots of disk space, lots of processing power, and an nVidia graphics card. I bought the Dell notebook last year and it is now slowly dyeing. The display is fuzzy - it comes and goes and, no, it is not the driver... Posted Jun 20 2008, 07:47 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed, personal

• Path to Clarity - Via Stupidity?

  After many years of reading strictly technical books, magazines, and other articles I am turning my attention to non-technical books and essays. Specifically, great authors like Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I am reading a few books concurrently because, while... Posted Jun 02 2008, 11:31 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: nontechnical, Op-Ed

• Commerce Server Will Test Your Patience

  I have been working with Commerce Server 2007 for a couple of months now. Like many products, CS is great if you happen to be a user/developer that works with the base/included functionality and are happy with customizing the starter site's appearance... Posted May 13 2008, 09:15 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed, Commerce Server

• Commentary: Services Strategy

  In a new paper, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie suggests that Content, Community, Commerce, Search, and Advertising are strategic areas for investment ( download PDF / read online ). The paper, called Services Strategy, is being marketed... Posted Apr 24 2008, 10:29 PM by Erik with | with no comments Filed under: Op-Ed