Bill Blondeau's blog

This is the second of several speculative posts looking at the forces that are pushing our industry into a New Normal, and how we might respond. The first post considered the effects of prolonged economic downturn; this one looks at an unusually disruptive wave of technological change that is already starting to wash over us.
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It seems increasingly apparent that the IT industry is heading into a time of troubles, a destabilizing period that will push us into a changed professional landscape. Unoriginally, I'm calling that changed landscape the New Normal.

Here at XML Today there is a strong and laudable push to promote XRX architecture. However, the very loosely defined REST architectural style leaves us a little short on best practice recommendations. Read more »

And no. I'm not going to start out with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". But I will tell you what kind of time it was.

It was a big damn Gold Rush.

As gold rushes tend to do, it made a mess of a lot of things; some got rich and most didn't, and those who were already wealthy figured out how to take advantage of the situation. And there's one other major thing that gold rushes do: they tend to tilt balances. Read more »