• SOA - Service Oriented Architectures are the Best Approach for All Projects, Right?
• Web Services - What Your Developers Won’t Tell You.
• Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) - Utopia or Money Pit?
• BPEL - Hang on to Your Wallet!
• Governance - How They Sell It Versus How It Gets Used.
• .NET - Vastly Superior to J2EE. Or is it?
• J2EE - Vastly Superior to .NET. Or is it?
• Message Oriented Middleware and Queues - Do We Even Need Web Services at All?
• XML - You Can Never Go Wrnog Using XML.
• Horizontal and Vertical Scaling - What are They and Which Should We Do First?
• REST and ROA - Far Better than SOA! But Why Doesn’t Anyone Else Use It Too?
• SOAP - Here’s What Every Project Manager Should Know About It.
• WSDL - Huh? My Project Budget Went Where?
• WSRP - Portlets and Portals. Techies Love Them. Will Your Budget?
• HTTP - Who Cares about HTTP? Now Why is Everything Running So Slowly?
• PHP - Makes Shooting Yourself So Easy. Now Hand Me One of those Web Service Bullets.
• XML Schemas - You Don’t Need To Know About Them As Long As You Have Infinite Project Budget.
• HTML - A Technology So Simple I Don’t Need to Worry About It. Right?

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