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Comment on So Much to Learn, So Little Time to Know… by Karen at HelpMyOldDog.com

Karen at HelpMyOldDog.com — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:34:14 +0000

Hi Jon,

It’s interested to see you have a WordPress blog. I recently moved my “hobby website”, http://www.HelpMyOldDog., to a WordPress blog. Actually, it has not “gone live” in WordPress yet…. but will within the next few weeks. I really appreciated hearing about iTunesU. I’ve done one podcast and will definitely research using iTunes for distribution of that and possibly other podcasts in the future.

Thanks for sharing the info you share on this website!

Comment on Are You a Leader? If so, How? by Seek First to Understand « Colorado Research by Jon Ford

Seek First to Understand « Colorado Research by Jon Ford — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:02:59 +0000

[...] problem solving and organization have dominated my extracurricular thinking. My last posts on how you lead and diversity in problem solving emerged from my observations during recent meetings as well as [...]

Comment on The Last Lecture by james

james — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:23:28 +0000

Love the video, watched it several times. Had to have the book. Both are things everyone should do. Watch the video. Read the book.

Comment on It’s all about Standards – Leopard gets UNIX certification by Thomas Magee

Thomas Magee — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:30:29 +0000

Looks like it’s on its way.

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/MacOS_Java_16_Developer_Preview_1.20071120.html

Comment on Never Constrain Excellence with Average by Thomas Magee

Thomas Magee — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:23:47 +0000

Jon,

That’s a very interesting insight. I think it may well apply to more than just programming, as I’m sure you suspect. It makes the challenge of managing for “fairness” kind of insane, or at least “crazy making”. I guess I kind of aim for a minimum standard of performance and then try not to constrain the uber performers. It’s hard to do because the creative thinkers sometimes only perform on average in one type of work and then rock in a bunch of others. Meanwhile the other average performers look at the one doing all the other things and think, “Hey! How come they get to do all that other stuff?” The answer is, “Because they want to.”

I love the line about not being “limited by the collective average”.

Regards!

Comment on SOA is Just an Example of High Cohesion and Loose Coupling by Mountain Man

Mountain Man — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:32:30 +0000

There is definitely overhead to an SOA deployment with XML based messaging. Our overhead is ~30ms per message, including time to parse XML and route through the ESB for synchronous messaging (request – reply.) But, my current environment is not very high volume or real-time. If you can’t stand a 5ms delay, stick with native JMS (or whatever your standard is) and just apply the same principles – canonical message formats can be specified in Java, C++, CORBA IDL, etc. Good Luck!

Comment on SOA is Just an Example of High Cohesion and Loose Coupling by Libor

Libor — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:24:47 +0000

As you are probably quite experience in SOA I’m would like to know what is communication overhead if you are using XML (i.e. how many messages you are able to process per second on one service). Do you know those statistics?

I’m interested this info because we are using SOA in our electronic trading application as well but no XML/SOAP due very poor processing speed (at the best we are able to execute simplest SOAP message within 5ms). This leads to limit our application for access from 3rd party only those who have libs from us.