It was great to see Paradigma Software’s Valentina listed on Doug Barry’s Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures site under the list of recommended object-relational solutions. Doug has a book on the topic, Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager’s Guide
Letting your focus drift can up-end your business at any time: before you release your first product or after you have had a success or two.
As a software vendor, your first priority is to ship product. If you are an Engineer CEO or a technology researcher, it is very easy to consciously or unconsciously place technological perfection above all else or get caught up in the total functionality of the technology you work with. (more…)
Earle Castledine over on DevX.com wrote an interesting article about AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) about how it can be used for nefarious purposes. AJAX lets a web page act much more like an application, in that it doesnt necessarily require you to hit a “submit” button to get a response out of page code or, from a server. The way the web has worked, you click the button and you are commited (unless you are using almost any version of Internet Explorer which commits you to an open door for a lot of viruses just by loading a web page); prior to that, your web page was a passive thing, waiting for stimulus. Not any more. (more…)