Ellen Ning Zhao's musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in culture, gallery, Germany, life, the Netherlands, travel on Feb 25th, 2008
This weekend I added 250+ pictures to my online gallery. The newly added albums are: Holiday in Tübingen 2007 summer: Dirk’s hometown Tübingen is a very beautiful small city in South Germany. The Necker river flows through the city and there are many interesting small lanes among the old houses built on hills in the [...]
Posted in gallery, imaging, life, photography, the Netherlands, travel on Jun 3rd, 2007
On May 18th Dirk and I visited the tulip park in Keukenhof. The weather was not bad but the sky was washed out most of the time. It took us 2.5 hours to reach the park. Most tulips were already languished. We saw fields of leaves of tulips. But it was still a highly interesting [...]
Posted in China, life, personal news, travel on Mar 30th, 2007
Dirk and me had our winter break in China for three weeks. That was a really hectic holiday, we visited many places and walked till we really exhausted everyday…Now I’m back to my normal academic life again. Last week I got the results of the computer science project and exam I did last semester, they [...]
Posted in travel on Dec 24th, 2006
Sorrento Sunshine 1 Sorrento Sunshine 2 Sorrento Sunshine 3 … Amalfi At the fourth day of the ISPA conference, the host organized an excursion to Amalfi. It was sunny like the past days and our bus ride was totally along the coast from Sorrento to Amalfi. There was wonderful view all the way to Amalfi, [...]
Posted in travel on Dec 23rd, 2006
Sorrento Sunshine 1 Sorrento Sunshine 2 After the presentation we went to the organized lunch. It was again an X-courses meal. To Dirk, Willi and me it was hardly really enjoyable. We spent more time on waiting to be served rather than eating. There were simply many guests that is one thing, the other thing [...]
Posted in travel on Dec 22nd, 2006
This blog continues the Sorrento Sunshine written yesterday. … Sorrento … The Ristorante Crawford was unfortunately closed when I got there, all cooks and waiters were at home. However seeing there’s no other guest to serve, the owner, who is a nice mid-age lady and cannot speak English at all, asked her son to come [...]
Posted in travel on Dec 21st, 2006
Last week Dirk had his ISPA conference in Sorrento. Since I didn’t have any seminar or lecture at school last week, we flied to Italy together and stayed there from Dec. 2nd to Dec. 8th. The Journey to Sorrento The weather was so nice. We departed from the international airport Düsseldorf and flied with LTU. [...]
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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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