Last week I was in Croatia. We sailed in the islands located in front of Split.

Thomas à la pleine de jeux à Overijse

A voir absolument...

Nice presentation to see

This week is a Mainframe week...

IBM has opened a Business Center in Second Life. See a video. Shoud I join Second life while I have already a busy real life ?

Today, I had a unexpected chat with a sales on a virtual booth. It was an interesting experience.

Support à ma comparaison SOA... ;-)

On the Business Quest blog, I watched the TEC presentation on our ability so synthetize happiness. Here are some things I liked in this presentation.

The interesting discussion around Little Vs Big SOA leads me to write about what I describe as Lego Vs Playmobil SOA.

Following a discussion with another talented architect, here are some examples of how a SOA "Business" Service should look like. My point : it should only be understandable text...

Samples of bad design by Micrsoft, illustrated with music. A lot of fun...

A fascinating presentation at TED Talks about our ability to "synthesize" happiness (from Business Quests in the Information Age).

See here : http://jfdeclercq.blogspot.com/2007/05/lisbon-from-miradouro-da-senhora-do_07.html

I was in Lisbon last weekend and I took photos of Azulejos on houses. Here is the collage of all those Azulejos.

Azulejos are are a typical form of Portuguese or Spanish painted, tin-glazed, ceramic tilework. They have become a typical aspect of Portuguese culture, manifesting without interruption during five centuries the consecutive trends in art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azulejo

Picture taken last weekend in Lisbon.

I was in Lisbon last weekend and I took photos of Azulejos on houses. Here is the collage of all those Azulejos.

(joke) Hier soir, ma femme et moi étions assis à table à discuter de choses et d'autres. Puis, nous en sommes venus à parler de l'euthanasie...

Read here the seven priciples of Service orientation

» The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented Architecture | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com

Which types of business processes would benefit from a Business Process Management Platform on top of a SOA ?

Finally! A complete Open Source Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.

If you want to create Windows Help files and/or HTML Help files, use HelpNDoc. It's a very simple tool for that.