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Saturday, November 29, 2003 RFID Chips used for Mind Control According to the former Chief Medical Officer of Finland, RFID chips are now being used for mind control. Now, I know what you're thinking... the transmission and storage capabilities of RFID are so low, how does it work? Well, I don't know. Apparently, the trick is to hook the antenna up to the brain stem and the electricity wires up to the cerebrum and then 'think' real hard. The application for the device is targeted at creating a more choreographed dance line. Joseph O'Shea, the producer of 'River Dance' commented, "Gettin all these dancers to move together is a real pain. That's why we are switching to RFID Mind Control". However early tests of the device were less than successful.  We determined that midgets and fat people are less susceptible to the radio waves, as well as people that have consumed large amounts of Mad-Dog 20/20. More recent tests have confirmed that the systems works best with gay Irish men dressed in black.  The company behind this venture, "Coordinated Dancing Inc." are considering new markets. Unfortunately, most of the senior management team has been infected with gangrene of the medula which has left them without control of their bladders and urinary tract. CFO, Jimmy McDonald commented, "We've got a think tank working on the issue now - everything from more company toilets to bulk purchases of 'Depends' - we will not let gangrene of the brain slow us down. Inserting 10 cent chips into the brain of every man, woman and child is the future!" posted by jeff | 5:59 AM Friday, November 28, 2003 A Service Oriented Coupling Index In December of last year, I issued a challenge (really to myself) to work on a 'service oriented coupling index'. I was searching for a quantitative way of determining how loose or tightly coupled software entities are. I took a look at much of the academic literature but found that most of it was out of date or needed rethinking in the service oriented world. More recent work, such as that performed by Doug Kaye was a great help in the pursuit. At the end, I produced an initial report called, "An Inter-Service Coupling Index for Lossless Exchanges" I learned a couple of lessons in the process: 1. A coupling index is possible, however the quantitative aspect still lies in the eye of the beholder (which Doug and others warned be about). Thus, in many ways the coupling index becomes a 'best practices' in coupling guide. 2. The pursuit of the coupling index was extremely interesting. I am convinced that the value to be taken away from the report isn't the index but rather the insight on areas where coupling may still be reduced. Please feel free to send me your thoughts (good or bad). I plan on putting out an updated version on Jan 1. And thanks again to all of you who sent me early feedback. Have Fun! jeff posted by jeff | 3:54 PM Thursday, November 27, 2003 MS Millennium Goals for OS I just ran across an interesting paper from MS, see: http://research.microsoft.com/sn/Millennium/mgoals.html Perhaps Christian would be kind enough to blog on 'Longhorn' and how close it is to reaching some of the goals. posted by jeff | 7:29 AM Wednesday, November 26, 2003 Service Data Objects IBM & BEA released a new specification for Service Data Objects. In my opinion, this is a much needed and perhaps overdue specification. SDO introduces Data Objects and Data Graphs which are self-describing data containers that can be manipulated, serialized and navigated. The feature that really got my attention was the ability to create a 'change log' of the data set. In essence, this feature mimics the functionality found in .Net called, "disconnected datasets'. It is also apparent that the specification writers have gone out of their way to plan for a service oriented world. The use of XML Schema and a SOAP binding are utilized. I'm getting the feeling that this will be an underlying work-horse for some follow-on specifications. posted by jeff | 8:23 AM Tuesday, November 25, 2003 OpenStorm Demo Starting in December, I will be giving some one-on-one demonstrations of the OpenStorm Suite to prospects. Here are my initial travel plans: Dec. 2 - Houston Dec. 3 - Dallas Dec. 4 - New York Dec. 5 - Atlanta Dec. 10-11 Philadelphia Dec. 18 - St. Louis Dec. 19 - Chicago Most of these days are only partially booked. If you are considering a purchase in this space and the date/location works for you shoot me a note! jschneider AT OpenStorm DOT com. The talk will focus on Service Oriented Integration techniques, the Service Network and using BPEL as an integration mechanism. I'll be setting up a west coast visit in January. posted by jeff | 6:36 AM Monday, November 24, 2003 OCL for Web Services Radovan wants OCL for web services (or more precisely, he wants a Service Constraint Language). I do too. As far as I know, a variation of the Object Constraint Language doesn't exist - let's call it SCL. But be careful, just because you define constraints (pre-conditions, post-conditions, message verification - and potentially even the order of service participants), you haven't created a replacement for a fully defined business process. I love constraints - and I love fully described digital business processes - and I really love when the two are combined. I've been having some offline conversations on the 'coupling index' - a means to quantitatively determine a 'loose or tight coupling factor'. One thing I noticed is that by having a centrally defined business process, we are able to have more fully encapsulated services (we shift knowledge out of the service and into the process). However, I've also noticed that the current state of web services fails dramatically in being 'fully encapsulated' - mostly due to the lack of constraints put on the operations. That is, a significant amount of knowledge beyond the interface is still required. And yes, if we wanted... we could build an SCL as a web service... which means we could orchestrate the pre- and post condition calls. :-0 (not that you would want to... I'm still in that mode where everything looks like an orchestration...) p.s., I'm a fan of point-to-point integration as well! posted by jeff | 6:35 AM |
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