WS-Fabric

Apr 29th: To my mind, the debate between ESB and WS-Fabric is settled already. But I'm out on a limb here. Dave Chappell has mounted a spirited defence of ESB in an exchange of views with Microsoft program manager Rich Turner, who touts native WS-* infrastructure as the way to go ...

Cell names in Excel

Apr 8th: Can anyone tell me, what is the point of binding cell names in Excel to absolute cell references? (I know this is a bit of a diversion from my normal subject matter, but I'm doing my accounts). Steeped in the loose coupling of the Internet, I naturally assume that naming ought to be a mechanism for virtualizing a cell address so that I don't have to remember to update the link every time I add a row to the other spreadsheet ...

East vs West?

Apr 7th: SOA registry rivals Infravio and Systinet have backgrounds that are almost mirror images of each other. There's a David-and-Goliath flavor to this battle, of course, since Systinet is well established as the registy market leader — and well known to developers through its careful seeding of the market with its freely downloadable registry tools — whereas Infravio is the smaller upstart that is still working to establish its name ...