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	<title>Mark Gregory Turansky &#187; Technology</title>
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		<title>The Zombie Horde vs. A Posse of Cowboys</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/123</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent blog entry attempts to paint Big M Methodology as a zombie creating process and quotes Peopleware as the sole evidence of its argument.  You, the poor developer, are turned into a mindless zombie by having a defined process to follow.  You are given no license for creativity, no room for error, and you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two &#8220;orders of magnitude&#8221; is one too many</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/122</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An &#8220;order of magnitude&#8221; gain in efficiency, whether its a business process or computer program, is something to strive for, but two orders of magnitude, despite sounding cool, is one too many.
Why?
Assume you have a perfectly linear process &#8212; say, a computer program processing data &#8211;  whereby you can add additional processing nodes for parallel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSDL first development?  Are they crazy?</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/94</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the CXF user guide:  &#8221; For new development the preferred path is to design your services in WSDL and then generate the code to implement them.&#8221;
Are they insane?
Which would you rather write by hand&#8230;.
a)


@WebService(

    endpointInterface = "com.southwind.PersonFacade",

    name = "PersonFacade"

)

public interface PersonFacade {

    @WebMethod()

    public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More proof that you can&#8217;t keep a good idea down?</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/78</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/78#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 03:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terracotta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this blog article, Michael Nygard discusses a talk he attended where a technical architect discussed an SOA framework at FIDUCIA IT AG, a company in the financial services industry.  Nygard describes an architecture that echoes many of the features I implicitly spoke of in my first blog article about my big integration project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t keep a good idea down</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/77</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 03:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our message bus project was more than just replacing JMS with a POJO messaging system.  It&#8217;s a whole piece of infrastructure designed to make it easy for different folks to do their jobs.
How did we do this and why do the next couple of paragraphs sound like I&#8217;m bragging?  Because many of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Linux will never be the world&#8217;s primary desktop</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/72</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/72#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year for the past N years has been proclaimed as &#8220;The Year of Linux on the Desktop!&#8221;  It hasn&#8217;t happened.  It will never happen.
Why?
GNOME vs. KDE?  Which distro?
I understand that Linux is the kernel and that GNOME/KDE is the desktop.  I am well aware of this distinction.  Joe Average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scalability &amp; High Availability with Terracotta Server</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/60</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our message bus will be deployed to production this month.  We&#8217;re currently sailing through QA.  Whatever bugs we&#8217;ve found have been in the business logic of the messages themselves (and assorted processing classes).  Our infrastructure &#8212; the message bus backed by Terracotta &#8212; is strong.
SCALABILITY
People are asking questions about scalability.  Quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW TO: Better JavaScript Templates</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/47</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/47#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Code Hints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JavaScript Templates (Jst) is a pure Javascript templating engine that runs in your browser using JSP-like syntax. If that doesn&#8217;t sound familiar, check out the live working example on this site and download the code.  It&#8217;s Free Open Source Software.
Better JavaScript Templates
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		<title>The Great Indian Outsourcing is over</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/48</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Indian Outsourcing movement will be over within two years.
That&#8217;s what an architect turned blogger who writes anonymously from Bangalore is predicting.  The author is writing from the movement&#8217;s Ground Zero, so he may have better insight than the rest of us.  But I&#8217;ve got good anecdotal evidence from a local outsourcing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some wheels need reinventing</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/45</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terracotta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reinventing a square wheel is a common anti-pattern.  The idea is a) we don&#8217;t need to reinvent the wheel because b) we&#8217;re likely to recreate it poorly compared to what is already available.  But if we never reinvent any wheels, then we never progress beyond what we have.  The real question, then, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caveat emptor</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/41</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think the claims made by the people hawking this book are some of the most disingenuous things I&#8217;ve ever read:
http://sourcemaking.com/design-patterns-simply
They are selling a rehash of the classic Gang of Four (GoF) Design Patterns book as a PDF, making preposterous claims which I&#8217;ll cut &#38; paste here.  You can&#8217;t make this stuff up.
The Whys:
Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perils of Joel Spolsky</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/38</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/38#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Perils of Java Schools?  Joel Spolsky &#8212; of Joel On Software fame &#8212; continues to ding Java whenever the opportunity arises, which just so happens (again) to be a recent article on his blog about &#8220;Java schools&#8221; and undergraduate programs.  I think he still holds MSFT stock in his portfolio, which may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Printable Design Patterns Quick Reference Cards</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/32</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/32#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Gang of Four design patterns have been elegantly distilled into a quick reference guide suitable for printing on 8.5 x 11.
You can get a larger version for your office wall, too.  Check out the poster size.  It&#8217;s perfect for any software organization.
I&#8217;ve posted low-resolution versions of the two cards here with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Mouse</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/27</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/27#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robert X. Cringley &#8212; far and away the best thing related to high technology coming out of Charleston, South Carolina &#8212; suggested in his annual tech predictions that Apple would deliver a replacement for the mouse in 2008.  Here we are just two weeks later, mere days after MacWorld 2008, and the world has [...]]]></description>
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