So you can do it in five lines or less… Steve Jones: “Maintenance is the hardest part of IT, writing code that survives for 5, 10 or even 20 years should be an achievement, not writing something 20 seconds quicker than the bloke sitting next to you.”
I know in five years, on one can afford to pay me enough to maintain this piece of code:
((DataSource) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/myDB")).getConnection();
Less off. A quick refresher in using lsof (Daniel Miessler).
RESTful Rails. About 30 pages of RESTful goodness and Rails elegance. (Via Ruby Inside)
Slapped together. Can you use one architecture to overcome the limits of another? “This article proposes the use of a facade component for providing a REST-style interface to existing SOAP-style Web services.”
Simple Oriented Architecture. I’m following some recent discussions on the punditsphere, and I got to hand it to the WS-* folks. They’ve managed to tangle the S in WS-* with the S in SOA. Works wonders on buzzword driven architects, especially when you can’t clearly articulate why limited endpoints are better than vast resources, or the other way around.
So let’s repeat this together: “Simple-Oriented Architecture works better. Simple-Oriented Architecture is not just for the services. Simple-Oriented Architecture means less work today, and less maintenance tomorrow”.
Cuteness overload, via Jeremy Zawodny