Service Oriented Architecture is about making IT look like your organisation. In many companies IT systems are broken down in to lumps that aren't the same lumps that the business understands. This article describes why reflecting your business in your systems design is so important [read more]

I do a lot of programming in the large and spend far too much time, according to some, thinking about programming in the large concepts such as SOA and CEP but from time to time I like to keep it real and code something detailed and low(er) level. Recently I've been doing a little investigation around compression and so I ended up reading up on Huffman Coding. [read more]