Ellen Ning Zhao's musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in book, software engineering on Jul 27th, 2011
Truly Aligning Software Design to the Essence of Business Business people have been poor. When they use their equipment, their accountants speak like this: “debit depreciation expense account should be updated and credit accumulated depreciation is increased. Deferred tax asset is reduced.” When they want a software for running business, IT consultants speak like this: [...]
Below is my amazon review for the book The Science of Cooking by Dr. Peter Barham. Title: Scientifically Informative But Far From Complete In the Cooking Aspect Pros: Scientifically informative and solid. Knowing the chemical and physical facts behind cooking methods applied to certain group of food would definitely help one to produce constantly good [...]
Posted in book, computer science, software engineering on Apr 20th, 2007
My review for the book Expert Systems: Principles and Programming (Fourth Edition) on amazon: The 4th edition has remarkable changes compared to the 3rd edition, which was written in 1990. Almost all the references are highly up-to-date, new trends in the AI field and new applications leveraging expert systems are introduced all through this book. [...]
Yesterday in the train to Eindhoven I met a sir who works in the R&D department of a big cosmetics manufacturer. He told me the dramatic price difference between a big brand cream and a cheap brand cream does not mean the effective ingredients are really that different. Say, it might cost 4 euro to [...]
The book: 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline The history of China is long and it is very difficult to get a clear idea about the logic behind the countless events happened during the last several thousand years in China. I’ve read many books on China’s history, both Chinese ones [...]
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Ellen Ning Zhao's musing between sense and sensibility
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What makes something a service is the way it’s constructed and the way it interacts and is used within a system. - SOA Patterns, p218
....just for the heck of it. SOA has a lot of advantages, but it’s not the solution for every problem. - from the book "SOA Patterns"
If it’s a good fit for your project, don’t feel the need to call it SOA or to overload it with SOA-related technologies....- to be continued
There are many successful deployments of three-tiered solutions.....- to be continued.
It’s important to note that the three-tiered architecture mentioned earlier is a viable architecture. - to be continued.
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