Monthly Archives: May 2006

Microsofts Skyscrapr architecture site launched

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Microsoft has just launched a community for IT architects called Skyscrapr. Skyscrapr is described as:

Skyscrapr is your window on the architectural perspective. Discover the different disciplines of system architecture, as well as perspectives on building successful systems. Check out our architects’ blogs, learn about industry trends, download webcasts, watch videos, find training, and more.

The site contains several blogs but I have trouble subscriping to the RSS feeds using Bloglines. Perhaps this is due to the site just recently being launched. The site looks promosing though and I plan to have a further look at the site later.

[Via Architects’ Linkblog]

Dana Bredemeyer and Ruth Malan: Resources for Software Architects

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I just came across Resources for Software Architects – a very interesting site on software architecture by Dana Bredemeyer and Ruth Malan.

The Software Architecture Links section of the site has lots of links to resources on software architecture including links to blogs by software architects. Ruth Malan herself has a blog called A Trace in the Sand. Another interesting blog is the Architect’s Linkblog which “is a resource to help architects and aspiring architects keep up to date on areas relevant to being an architect“.

Dana Bredemeyer and Ruth Malan are also the authors of the Software Architecture Action Guide Book.

Lotus Notes/Domino 7 vs SharePoint Portal Server 2003

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ZDNet Australia compares Lotus Notes/Domino R7 with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and the conclusion is:
“If you are already use Lotus Notes for e-mail or if you are an IBM shop and can invest the time and money into developing collaborative applications, Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0 is a powerful framework on which to do so. However, if you don’t have the resources dedicated to developing collaborative applications, don’t have complex application or integration requirements or if you are focused on the Microsoft solution stack, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is going to be hard to beat.”

The review is currently being discussed at Slashdot.

Update: read more comments on the review from Ed Brill and The Sickos.

Tutorial: Visualize with Rational Software Modeler: UML 2.0 modeling

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A new tutorial for Rational Software Modeler has been published: Visualize with Rational Software Modeler: UML 2.0 modeling. The tutorial will introduce you to some of the visual UML 2.0 modeling capabilities in RSM.

A similar tutorial from March 2006 is available for Rational Software Architect: Visualize with Rational Software Architect.

Firebug: a JavaScript, CSS, HTML and AJAX debugger

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If you need a comprehensive JavaScript, CSS, HTML and AJAX debugger then you should have a look at Firebug. Firebug is a Firefox extension that “lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.”

Firebug 0.4 was just released yesterday by the author Joe Hewitt.

I have had my problems debugging AJAX so hopefully Firebug can come to the rescue here.

Introducing IBM Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions

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IBM has announced “Lotus Notes access for SAP Solutions” and Rocky Oliver and Ed Brill (among many) has been blogging about it in details.

I just want to point you to a new article on developerWorks called “Introducing IBM Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions“. From the article: “Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions is a new feature in Lotus Notes 7.0.1 that integrates Lotus Notes and SAP, so you can perform some common SAP functions from within Lotus Notes, such as time reporting, vacation and leave requests, and so on. Developers can extend this new feature even further.“