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Scheduled exam S90.02

Steven Hillaert — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:53:00 +0100

I've scheduled the second exam, SOA Technology Concepts, in my pursuit of becoming a Certified SOA Consultant for March 29. This exams covers the basic technologies to implement a SOA solutions, specially through the use of web services. To prepare for this exam I've been reading chapters 5-6-7-13-16-17-18 of the book SOA: Concepts, Technology,... Read Scheduled exam S90.02

Understanding SOA - A Word On Services

Steven Hillaert — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:00:00 +0100

Introduction A service is the essential artifact in SOA, everything revolves around it, you'll be analyzing, modeling, designing, implementing, governing and versioning services. A service is a specialized piece of business logic, a piece of software that is designed by following the ideas, principles and patterns in mind that will fulfill a... Read Understanding SOA - A Word On Services

New Poll: Do you consider getting SOA certified?

Steven Hillaert — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:34:00 +0100

Checkout the new poll on top of the right sidebar. Are you thinking about getting somekind of SOA certification, are you busy getting one, do you already have one or are you not interested? If you have any remarks, questions, opinions or experience on the subject of this poll then let us know by commenting here.... Read New Poll: Do you consider getting SOA certified?

Passed Exam S90.01: Fundamental SOA & Service-Oriented Computing

Steven Hillaert — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:51:00 +0100

This morning I went to take the exam S90.01 and passed without too much difficulties, 96/100 isn't that bad I guess :-) This exam is to test your basic understanding of Service-Orientation, here is a list of the things you have to be familiar with: - services and related stuff (contracts, inventories...) - delivery lifecycle - the 8 principles -... Read Passed Exam S90.01: Fundamental SOA & Service-Oriented Computing

Understanding SOA - Principles - Service Loose Coupling

Steven Hillaert — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:30:00 +0100

Introduction Service Loose Coupling means that each service is an isolated entity with limited dependencies on other (shared) resources. These resources could be technologies, (legacy) applications, databases, components, API's, infrastructure... The more a service is isolated from external resources the more predictable and reliable it will be.... Read Understanding SOA - Principles - Service Loose Coupling

Understanding SOA - Principles - Service Contract

Steven Hillaert — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:30:00 +0100

Introduction The service contract is probably the most important thing/document/artifact that you'll be creating or using concerning a SOA implementation. This is what technically defines a service, what it will look like, what it is capable of doing and how it's going to do it. Standardized Service Contract A service contract should be... Read Understanding SOA - Principles - Service Contract

Stored Procedure Performance

Steven Hillaert — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:56:00 +0100

This is just a quick tip/workaround for performance issues with stored procedures in SQL Server. I had a fairly complex SP, actually just a SELECT with calculations, joins and outer applies, that had several parameters of different types (uniqueidentifier, varchar, datetime) that were used in the WHERE clause and passed to functions. This SP took... Read Stored Procedure Performance

Scheduled exam S90.01

Steven Hillaert — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:31:00 +0100

I just scheduled my first soaschool.com exam for December 30, just in time to keep on track with my planning to do one exam this year :-) I've read the book SOA: Principles of Service Design completely, read the self-study material and I tried the sample questions. Until D-day I'll probably listen to the the CD's with podcasts and review the most... Read Scheduled exam S90.01

WCSF and VS2010

Steven Hillaert — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:24:00 +0100

Guidance Automation isn't supported yet in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and this sucks (my apologies for using this word). In a project we're currently working on we're using Entity Framework and the Web Client Software Factory and I would really like to use the new EF features in VS2010 beta 2 (it does have a go-live license) but also keep using WCSF... Read WCSF and VS2010

Oslo Articles

Steven Hillaert — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:26:00 +0200

From DSLs and Models to “Quadrant” using “Oslo” May CTP Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 "M" In a Nutshell Part 1 Part 2 Modeling as Expressed in Code Part 1 Part 2 What Exactly Does One Do With “Oslo”? MGraph Visualizer Plug-in for Intellipad! Intellipad Team Blog... Read Oslo Articles