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

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