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The kindness of the staff, welcoming feel, and unexpected quality of my room was excellent.
My room had an unpleasant smell.
Great location, food, fun, shows, activities all within walking distance.
Beds were a little hard for my taste.
The room was clean and well maintained, the beds were comfortable and the staff was friendly. It felt like going to Disney Land for adults. It's also right on the strip and next to the tram station so it was nice to walk outside and be in the middle of the excitement. Also, the Dick's restaurant inside the hotel was so much fun! I highly recommend it.
Long lines at reservation desk! Should be at enteance? ;Long distance to room, Room was stuffy, more like a budget hotel!!
Overpriced and dated amenities
Did not like the construction that woke me up the first morning I was there. Will most likely never stay there again
I think i was punished by the front desk person. I was given a room that looked right out on the roof of the back side of the casino. The sink was full of long hair that wasn't mine. Next room was OK and clean. The hotel is less expensive and still located close to where I needed to be.
The Excalibur Hotel & Casino was great. Our room after getting back from breakfast in the morning was as clean as the first time walking in the room. Housekeeping was amazing, I left a message in the little notebook that they leave for you and asked for 2 extra blankets and 2 extra towels, and they were their at bedtime. I also loved the arcade that they provided for families with young children it was great. Two things that I loved the most was the path that they had from Excalibur's casino to Luxor' s casino that was great and easier to see the Criss Angel Believe show. Finally the luxury at Excalibur is unbelievable. Great Hotel.
The location is great, kind people, clean rooms...
Nothing except the location
So expensive for that crappy hotel Did not have a good service not even a bottle of water at the room or a coffee machine or refrigerator to keep your drinks cold at their fresh and renewed rome which I paid $40 extra and ridiculous resort fee even if you don't want to use it Overall it's a terrible experience I head in my life I would never ever staye at that terrible hotel again
This is not the place to play poker or bj as very table are there and not much fun. Go to either mgm or Bellaghy or ballys. just stay with family is good. manj
Staff was very friendly. Room seemed clean. Rooms were great deal for the price.
Television had some static
Good location and a pleasant stay
room was good. Central location with a lot of options for things to do. The worst part was the food . It's expensive and not very good buffet. it's a very expensive vacation probably would not do it again. Oh and for the price of the room no coffee. You pay for everything, 5.00 for a bottle of water.
We seen three shows and went on the Hoover dam tour. Hoover dam tour was the best part of the trip.
Rooms were clean and comfortable.
Very long check-in lines and few staff. No refrigerator in room ($25 extra). curtains in our room allowed light in.
Excellent location. Friendly staff
No kettle/coffee in the room. Room nice size. Bathroom nice size but overall a bit run down. Not certain about the cleanliness of th carpets.
Unfortunately we didn't enjoy our time there.......we actually cancelled our stay an hour after arriving. Through Kayak and the hotel we were able to arrange a refund for the two nights we were booked in and book other accommodation thought Kayak. The Excalibur was very run down and the rooms were poor. We were only informed when we arrived that the pool was closed for maintenance......this was to be relaxing time and this info was the final straw!
Walkability inside and connecting to other hotels was good.
construction happening in the room above mine during the day and evening, making loud noises and hammering, dropping things. Did not let me relax.
Easy check in Clean rooms Nice pool Area
Expensive pool side Adult beverages Not enough breakfast options
They gave me a smoking room when I first checked in, and couldn't change it until the following day. First night was awful. Couldn't sleep. Second night was better. But I left a night early to get out of there.
Clean quiet rooms and a good location on the strip, also usually affordable
It's really outdated, Casino smells like covered up smoke
One of the more relatively inexpensive hotels on the strip. Good location..
This hotel hasn't changed at all. I've visited/stayed at the Excalibur since I was a child, and it's still the same as I remember it from way back then. Desperate need of a remodel.
Good value for the money!
okay location, at south end of strip. good value.
desperately needs updating!!
Gilberto at the check in desk went above and beyond to make sure we were happy and comfortable. We will go back simply because the customer service was excellent.
Dirty spa tub and moldy smell
Location: right at the strip (south end).
Old and somewhere run down. Trashy crowd.
Cheapest I could find on short notice.
Non smoking room smelled like an ash tray - worse than the main casino. I actually found this at par with Circus Circus - not a compliment.
Not much
Pretty much envy thing was old, outdated, falling apart. Place is in need of a makover
The spa, the pool, shopping, restaurants were great. Rooms were ok
Didn't stay long enough to find out
Our daily housekeeping service person was great!
Upon checking in for our 3 night stay, they had the room wrong, had my reservation with me so it was fixed. Get to room in Tower 1 and it had wall plates missing on the outlets. Moved to another room in Tower 2 AC did not work. Maintenance sent up to fix changed filters in unit, looked like they had not been changed or cleaned since the place was built. Both husband and I ended up with a respiratory illness our second night. Needs better security to handle those guests who have chosen hoover indulge.
Honestly can't think of one good thing to say
Hotel smells bad, staff had bad attitudes and they hound you to buy discount coupons every time you turn around. Buffet used to be the best around. Was horrible. No food out and very little to chose from. Will never return!
Because of the price they let time share companies hound you at every enterence . we were stopped multiple times from our room to the street. Everyday it never ended in this hotel. We won't be going back to Vegas because of this
We had a non smoking room that reeked of snoke
Wish room service was later rather than only 2pm Non smoking room but had smoking Better food choices
We liked the accommodations the hotel made after having to request a room change.
Didn't like that the sink wasn't working properly, had to clean up the mess left by repairman ourselves, toilet kept running, and poor drink service while gambling
Decor carpet and bathroom is very old and nasty.
We asked for non-smoking room but was given a room that smells like smoke. Parking was really bad and valet get full fast
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This is third in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture. (see overview)
What can you get from this series?
My prior post raised a bit of ire with one of my readers, a fellow whom I respect. He felt that my posts were not telling a positive story about SOA.
I believe that SOA is a highly valuable paradigm for enterprise integration. I also believe that the ability to apply SOA to a problem is not uniform. Some problems can be solved with SOA. Others cannot. There is no magic bullet.
I am hopeful that this series helps folks to
I am not attempting to sell SOA to anyone. I make no money from "Selling SOA." I have no personal or professional stake in the success of the SOA paradigm. That said, I believe strongly that SOA has a value, and if we do a good job of avoiding mistakes, we can demonstrate that value to our respective businesses.
The Unification Operating Model
"When organizational units are tightly integrated around a standardized set of processes, companies benefit from a Unification model. Companies applying this model find little benefit in business unit autonomy. They maximize efficiencies and customer services by presenting integrated data and driving variability out of business processes." (Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, by Ross, Weill, and Robertson)
"When organizational units are tightly integrated around a standardized set of processes, companies benefit from a Unification model. Companies applying this model find little benefit in business unit autonomy. They maximize efficiencies and customer services by presenting integrated data and driving variability out of business processes." (Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, by Ross, Weill, and Robertson)
I illustrate this model as follows. (I described how to read these images in a prior post).
Companies that use a Unification model work very hard to wring out every drop of waste from often-complex processes. Some attributes:
One example that Ross uses is the core chemicals manufacturing business of Dow Chemical.
As I said before, the operating model is the single largest driver of decisions in your SOA. The impact of the model starts with the business, extends through business funding of IT, and into the architecture, design, and complexity of the IT ecosystem. In a company based on the unification model, the following situations are typical:
Note that, in the unification model, variation between business units is kept to a minimum. It is common to see the CIO report to the Finance Director or Chief Financial Officer.
The Unification Model is interesting because (a) SOA is expensive and may take years to reap full benefits, and (b) this IT environment is very cost conscious. That said, the environment is already familiar with purchasing large software systems and taking a long period of time to implement them. If you work in an environment like this one, and there is no SOA in place, you may make some traction by framing SOA as a single software package. (Not as large as ERP, but larger than a shipping management system, for example.) On the other hand, you could also get traction by tying SOA to a large system upgrade (see below).
The common data model
Once again, the key to implementing Enterprise SOA is the common data model. While the cost of creating a common data model is far less in this model, the benefit may be difficult to explain. That is because the data model is driven by the central systems that produce or consume the data. The urgency for creating a common data model may not be high.
In this model, SOA provides two benefits. Both require the common data model:
1) Protection from Vendor Lock-in: If the company has taken a "best of breed" approach to technology acquisition, then they have likely purchased different systems from different vendors for key business functions. Integrating these systems is expensive, and there are scars to prove it. This creates a "high barrier to entry and high barrier to exit" for these companies. It costs a lot to put in a system, but even more to leave. SOA can help lower those barriers by creating an abstract layer that processes abstract transactions in a standardized way.
This allows a company to purchase a new Financial system (Microsoft Dynamics AX, for example), and instead of integrating each of the other systems to it, the IT department would simply write adapters to connect the new system to the abstract services layer. Other systems can now directly consume the new system without substantial modification (in theory, anyway. Nothing is perfect.)
2) Process Composition across systems: It can be difficult to track a single transaction, through a complex process, across many systems. The customer doesn't care. You can directly impact customer satisfaction if it is difficult to figure out which system has the information that your customer needs to know, or to make it difficult to retrieve that information readily.
So, if customer satisfaction is important, process composition across many systems is a key capability of your IT infrastructure. To solve for this problem, you need four things: SOA as an integration mechanism, a common information model as a unifier, an enterprise identifier scheme to allow the transaction to be traced from start to finish, and tools to inspect each system for the information related to a unique transaction (using SOA, of course).
Funding SOA
If you get your information model in place, you could implement SOA as a combination of a package install and software adapters that is tied to a larger project, like an ERP replacement. On the other hand, with this operating model, it is possible to build a bottom-up SOA, where the services are produced as part of IT projects without architectural coordination, primarily in areas where the information model is well-understood.
Direct Impacts of the Unification Model on SOA Operations
The following effects would be typical for SOA+BPM in a Coordination model:
Centralized Process Management - Process owners manage a subset of the processes. Processes are often coordinated. Using the same BPM tool and repository is a best-practice, and one that will make immediate sense to the business. The tool must be able to support a wide array of BPM needs, and must leverage standards.
Centralized Governance Model - SOA Governance tools are quite useful in this model, and they should be used. (SOA Software and Amberpoint are two Microsoft partners that I would suggest, for readers interested in this space.)
SOA Service Adoption - Due to centralized decision-making, the decision to consume a service can be tied to project funding. This bit of overhead should pay for itself quite easily, since you would end up with a greater amount of service reuse, and therefore, less code to maintain in the long run. Some organizations have even gone all out, and implemented a set of core SOA services as a single project, then turning to governance to require all new projects to adopt them. (Top-down SOA).
Cross-system process concerns - Getting SOA benefits out of processes that look to a single enterprise system is a fairly quick win. I like quick-wins. You can build credibility for SOA by rolling out a few of these "low-hanging fruit" projects. However, to get real enterprise benefit out of SOA, you need to be able to compose a process across many systems. This can be easy, or this can be hard.
To make it simple, repeatable, and adaptable, you need to create your common information model. That model must contain not only information entities, but also a notion of what business documents you will communicate with, and what events occur on each document.
SOA Readiness - While a central group may decide to implement SOA, each of the IT teams that surround the major systems will have different levels of understanding of the concept of event-driven services. You will need to build a common understanding, and common standards, to make sure that these different groups, using different technologies, can reduce the friction that could occur when a process consumes many different services.
Centralized Service Catalog - You are likely to end up with a single catalog, but it may be a good idea to consider splitting the catalog into layers, with the upper layer of services oriented towards the business process areas that the organization cares about, and the lower layer of services to makes the information available. Services in the upper layer consume services in the lower one. By separating services in this manner, you can simplify the SOA composition process.
The Service Oriented Architecture for the unification operating model should take a cost-focused approach to delivering business value, orienting the services towards both process and information.
This is second in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture. (see overview)
Quick note about the CISR models
Before I go into a lot of detail about the operating models, I want to make one thing clear: The operating models from CISR follow the same laws as any other reference model. To whit: "All models are wrong. Some models are useful."
In other words, most enterprises will exhibit behaviors of each of the four CISR models in one aspect or another. That said, most businesses will exhibit the behaviors of one model more than the rest. This is usually apparent in the financial filings of the company (annual report, 10-Q) because it is difficult to hide the operating model of a company when you have to tell investors how you plan to deliver value in the coming year.
Also, as with all models, before you assume that your business is a Coordination model, make sure that you ask the business, not the IT team. Best case: ask the executive leadership (CxO level) to debate the point. It does no good for IT to have one view and the business to have another (path of pain).
"The Coordination model provides integrated service to each key customer group. The integration results from sharing key data across the business units to present a common fact to the customer." (Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, by Ross, Weill, and Robertson)
The illustration that I use is above. I have similar illustrations for the other models in the overview page.
How to read this image: a single gray horizontal box represents commonality across business units. In this case, a coordination model company will share customers and partners, even though each of the business units are managed seperately. The business processes are distinct by each business, as is the operational data, but it is all brought together in the business intelligence as a way of understanding the customer from a 360-degree view.
The example provided by Ross for a Coordination model company is Metlife, a financial products company that provides insurance and other financial services to millions of customers. The customers themselves may qualify for, and should benefit from, the products of many different business groups. However, each group may have their own "view" of the customer that is pertinent to their business.
The business model is the single largest driver of decisions in your SOA, whether you know it or not. The impact of the model starts with the business, extends through business funding of IT, and into the architecture, design, and complexity of the IT ecosystem. In a company based on the coordination model, the following situations are typical:
Note that, in the coordinated model, each of the business units is managed separately. This allows business leaders a great deal of flexibility (and accountability) for making their part of the business successful. It also means that the IT group tends to be divided up so that there are separate funding or reporting models to each of the different business units. Centralization is infrequent, and coordination (of funding, of architecture, of standards) requires consensus.
The Coordination Model is interesting because (a) SOA can provide real benefits, and (b) this is the most difficult of the four models in which to create a SOA. That is because of the impact of separate business management on IT funding, especially of a shared infrastructure like "common data models" or "common messaging standards" or even "common OS platforms." Anything 'common' is difficult, because the business units do not typically provide an incentive for their IT teams to create common models, and yet commonality is the key to getting value out of SOA.
Distributed / Federated Process Management - Each business unit manages its own processes, using its own tools. Processes are rarely coordinated across business units. This is a fact of life for the BPM tools, and frequently there is little business value behind forcing all business units to use the same BPM tool, since they cannot share the primary value chain processes anyway. Common corporate processes (like HR and Finance) are typically the only exception to this independent spirit.
Distributed / Federated Governance Model - A favorite topic among SOA folks is governance. Governance has many meanings. SOA Governance tools may prove ineffective if you use the tool to find a service, because you may not be able to tell which of your businesses paid for that service. This is important because the businesses themselves are quite likely to affect the amount of governance they want to occur, and therefore the governance rules that "their" services are to be judged against.
Semantic dissonance in the data - Making a service that is useful is nice. Make a service that is reusable is great. Getting two or more business units to adopt the service is darn near impossible. That is because, in this model, you are expected to integrate the data, but not the business processes. This usually creates a situation where the "semantic understanding" of the data is quite different between businesses.
For example, in one business, a purchase order may be created by anyone but is followed by an approval process if it exceeds a threshold. In another business, the purchase order cannot be created until the approvals have occurred, and perhaps, all purchase orders require approval.
So, if you look in a database and you see a purchase order... has it been approved or not? The answer depends on the business unit that created it. While this example is overly simplistic, the goal is to show that, for some core business entities, there will inevitably be places where the underlying states for the information cannot easily be aligned. This is semantic dissonance, and it makes Enterprise SOA a distant fantasy for those enterprises who are unprepared or unable to muster the consensus needed to find the commonalities in the various business processes.
To bring together the full benefits of SOA will require a costly process to align the events that create your business documents and to create a shared understanding of "when the purchase order becomes a purchase order." That says nothing about "what data is in a purchase order" or "what system does a purchase order live in." All of these variables create complicating effects on Service Oriented Architecture.
Consensus processes for designing and deploying SOA - the decision to deploy Service Oriented Architecture cannot be made by one central group. It must be made by many people, working together. In a "coordination model" company, centralized groups are rare and often quite small. They don't have the clout to bring about the kind of change needed to deliver truly reusable services. That requires "virtual teams" or "steering committees" that are often difficult to manage and can seriously delay deployments.
Service consumption is voluntary - Ever heard this fantasy: "If you build it, they will come." In a Coordination model, this idea, far fetched in any model, is downright silly. IT projects, especially ones funded by different business units, are going to have a difficult time explaining to their business why they created a service that another business can use... especially if they don't get some benefit out of it. Reusable services are more expensive than point-solution services.
Plus, reusable services force the IT team writing the consumer service to take a dependency on another team for delivery. That nearly always causes problems. Therefore, the only services you can easily reuse are services that (a) developed by the same business unit, or (b) are dictated from executive management, or (c) are so "thin" that they provide no real processing, and therefore, no real value.
Federated Service Catalog - Since processes may be different in each business unit, but some data elements are expected to be shared, it is typical to see one of two effects on the service catalog. Either (a) each business unit has it's own catalog, or (b) one common catalog exists, but each service is flagged with whether that services is "core" or if it is provided by a particular business. The assumption is that non-core services will only be consumed by applications that are part of the same business unit as the service publisher.
The Service Oriented Architecture for each of the business operating models will be quite different. Those differences can determine not only how difficult it is to create a SOA in that business environment, and the amount of business value that can be generated by doing so.
I'm begining a new series on Integration. Five parts. Clear up some of the noise on SOA. This series will refer to the set of four Operating Models described in the excellent book, "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy" from the great minds at MIT's Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), Jeanne Ross and Peter Weill. If you have not read the book, that's OK. Working Paper 359 on the CISR site will provide the right level of depth (there is a free registration on the site).
To quote from the working paper:
Companies make two important choices in the design of their operations: (1) How standardized their business processes should be across operational units (business units, region, function, market segment) and (2) how integrated their business processes should be across those units.
Companies make two important choices in the design of their operations: (1) How standardized their business processes should be across operational units (business units, region, function, market segment) and (2) how integrated their business processes should be across those units.
That's two variables. Assuming each has two values: Low and High, and you get four possible combinations. Ross gave these four types of models different names.
I've illustrated these models in this way.
The book I mentioned above goes into excellent detail on the implications of these models, and what kinds of companies are well suited to each model. Using success as a guide, you can quickly see how these two choices: Integration, and Standardization, drive huge effects across the organizations of these companies. They also drive the kind of "Big Picture" Enterprise Architecture models that the organization should produce, because each one benefits differently from EA.
Many folks now believe that SOA and EA will gradually combine, so that they are two parts of the same message. That story is interesting when you consider these four models, because SOA is radically different in each one. I believe it is true, because the four models each benefit from both EA and SOA, but in different ways. I believe there will be four types of Enterprise Architecture organization, and for each one, there will be a different set of methods, artifacts, and outputs... and a different SOA for each one.
And that is what this series will be about: the effects of the operating model on SOA. I will cover each of the operating models and describe the effect on a high level SOA reference architecture for that type of business, as well as the technical implications with respect to governance, catalogs, standardized schema, and mechanisms for gaining unity.
Here are a list of links to follow-up blog posts that discuss the different aspects of SOA in each of the business operating models described by CISR.
SOA in the Diversification Operating ModelSOA in the Coordination Operating ModelSOA in the Replication Operating ModelSOA in the Unification Operating Model
SOA in the Diversification Operating ModelSOA in the Coordination Operating ModelSOA in the Replication Operating ModelSOA in the Unification Operating Model
Why do this?
I see arguments every day, in the blogosphere and in books and white papers, where thinkers disagree about the value of a catalog or the need for standards or the future of SOA in general. The problem with these arguments is that most of the speakers are (a) correct, from their viewpoint, and (b) not changing their minds. We have a set of entrenched voices saying different things. So how can all of them be right?
I believe that there is more than one right answer, and that it depends on the operating model of the company. In other words, the tools, standards, and approach that is useful for a Unification model are simply not optimal when applied to a company with a Coordination model. That doesn't mean that you won't get progress, but you won't get as much as you could without considering the operating model first.
For years, the IT thinkers have been saying "let's get closer to the business... then IT becomes more useful." Guess what, folks! There is no "THE" in business! There are ten thousand ways to make money, and we need to serve all of them. One size, or one approach, or one toolset, will not suit all businesses. But chaos and cacaphony won't suit our ability to be effective.
By using simple models like the Operating Model concept from CISR, we can create reference architectures that can be reused in different organizations to base not only their Enterprise Architecture program, but their SOA implementation, and with it, the toolset that they need to build an agile, responsive, efficient, and highly valuable IT organization.
Once the SOA leaders realize that there is more than one right answer, we can begin to have productive conversations, not about whether a catalog is needed, or not, for everyone, but what role a service catalog plays in a Coordination operating model SOA, and how that role is different in a Diversification model. (it is, wildly). Consensus can be reached if we understand the scope of the problems that we are trying to solve.
That is my goal.
As I am called upon, more and more, to present a clear "vision" for how SOA will occur, I realize that folks are using the same words for two completely different requests. The trick is to provide both.
The question may be phrased as "Where are we going with SOA?" or "What is our integration story?" or "Why is it so hard to build shared services?"
There are two answers. I need to provide them both, and if you are sharing vision, you do too.
Regardless of whether you are creating the vision for information quality, or application simplification, or a new way to manage the funding of projects, you need to provide two different vision statements. In fact, you cannot possibly succeed unless you do.
You see, people like leadership. They abhor pretentious noisemakers. There's a thin line sometimes. And you can be the leader, instead of the noisemaker by putting yourself in their shoes. Take the viewpoint of your audience when you share the vision(s).
First off: distant but attainable and highly valuable goal. You have to show that there is not only light at the end of the tunnel, but that it is the light of nirvana. You have to really sell a 3-5 year future where things that are broken today are not broken anymore, where folks do good work as a matter of course, and the business is successful.
Second: the immediate and important first step. Once people feel like you've painted your fantasy future, you need to show them what the first step is. It has to be a valuable first step. It has to have some use. We must all benefit. It also has to be a little bit painful, to make it clear that this is not a step that folks would take if it weren't for that big-picture goal. It has to be emminently feasable, politically attainable, and requires a small number of key changes, mostly affecting a single role. That way, you have a small audience to influence, while you gain support from the greater community.
Some people will be motivated more by the distant vision, others by the near term goal. Regardless, you need both to make real changes occur.
Let's say you want to bring in Agile development practices. What would you need to do?
Well, you could convince a single development team to move forward with agile development. That would work for a while. But the other teams would not be interested in your success and it wouldn't matter if it worked or not... after a while, the managers would move to different jobs and the department would revert to bad practices.
On the other hand, you could make your pitch to the CIO and the top level folks, convincing them of the amazing value they will get if they use Agile development practices. What will you get? A set of executives now expecting YOU to fix things, regardless of whether you believe you can.
You need to do both. You need to take a pressing problem, one that is going to get solved, that is going to get funded. With that problem, you need to convince key folks that the future of the solution is either "elegance" or "chaos" and you have the road to elegance. However, you tell them, the entire organization cannot change at once, so you want "Just This Project" to adopt the new techniques and that will prove the value.
At the same time, you need to convince the team to take the first step. Get training and coaching. Start using some of the techniques. Start using the terms in conversation. Tell them that it is a new way and it will require unlearning some of the old habits, but that it will pay for itself.
At every step, you have to keep painting both visions: nirvana someday, effectiveness and value for now.
And then it must work. If it doesn't work, you will be set back, but if it does work, you will be ready to demonstrate it's success to the people who want things to change. And then, maybe, just maybe, they will sign up for "step 2."
Two visions, near and far. Both necessary.
Pete Lacey started an interesting discussion a few days ago when he reopened the debate over the use of the term "SOA" in his blog post "What is SOA?". He certainly dove in to attack the idea of SOA, but did not come to any useful conclusions.
He starts by offering a humorous anecdote to explain, to himself apparently, why we need SOA. The most interesting line is this, when describing how CORBA was a huge innovation:
"CORBA. Look, see. Interoperable remote procedure calls."
"CORBA. Look, see. Interoperable remote procedure calls."
Interoperable remote procedure calls. Yep. That was CORBA. Jump down a little...
Worse, CORBA wasn't quite as easy to use as it seemed. It was complex, nothing interoperated, it didn't work through firewalls, and a bewildering number of specs were coming out of the OMG.
"Well, how about this new SOAP thing," said the new new guy...
Worse, CORBA wasn't quite as easy to use as it seemed. It was complex, nothing interoperated, it didn't work through firewalls, and a bewildering number of specs were coming out of the OMG.
"Well, how about this new SOAP thing," said the new new guy...
OK... so here comes SOAP to replace CORBA for what... interoperable remote procedure calls. See where this is going? Fast forward again.
We just need to give this idea a name."
"I've heard it called service-oriented architecture,
We just need to give this idea a name."
"I've heard it called service-oriented architecture,
So, according to Pete, SOA is a name for a technology, based on SOAP, used to give us interoperable remote procedure calls. I shudder at the thought.
From there, Pete goes on to criticize SOA because it isn't an architecture and the term 'service' doesn't suit his mindset. Heck, with that definition, he'd be right.
Give me a break! Service Oriented Architecture is not RPC. People who write RPC code to integrate applications have created a ball of rubber bands in their infrastructure... I don't care if they used CORBA, or DCOM, or RPC, or Stored Procedures, or synchronous pixie dust! When you follow an antipattern in your architecture, the technology cannot save you.
The moment you criticize SOA on the basis of the technology, you've missed the point. SOA is an architecture... a technology agnostic architecture. It requires the basic things that are so difficult that folks are afraid to do them, and therefore the technical implementation fails and people blame the technologist... what are these so-important things that people are afraid to do?
Common Information Model
Common Business Event Model
Common Solution Model
Common Technology Model
Common Information Model
Common Business Event Model
Common Solution Model
Common Technology Model
I dare you to make any form of simplified, integrated, agile infrastructure work without these things.
What is going to become of the 'beloved SOA' for those geeks who live and breathe the term? Oh, who cares? We will rename it and it will keep coming back, just as it has always done. Pete even suggests a new name, "Network Oriented Computing."
Oh... right... we renamed it. THAT will make it work!
The concept is sound. The concept works. (Every implementation of SAP is based on the above elements. SAP integrates extremely divergent systems into a single scalable platform. There's your proof of concept).
So stop arguing about the name, for goodness sakes. Attacking the name of something you don't understand is a tactic best reserved for pundits and political candidates. If you don't like the politics of your opponent, attack his (or her) clothing, hairstyle, automobile, whatever... something that has nothing to do with the point.
Just as Pete did.
You know what seperates an artist from an engineer? Let's say Joe designs something pretty cool. Mary sees it and uses that design. In Engineering, Mary is wise. In Art, Mary is a thief.
For years, in many IT shops, and throughout the computing world, we have built a culture where it is better to write your own definition, your own design, your own snippet of code, than it is to use someone else's. We still reward this thinking.
I work in the area of EA Frameworks. There are quite a few frameworks emerging these days, and most of them are wildly similar. The solution is right in front of us, and with some thinking, we are converging on the answer. Yet, few people have taken the time to learn any of these frameworks (except the oldest and least comprehensive, Zachmann). The number of people who have taken time to study two or more frameworks: geometrically smaller.
In Engineering, this would be foolish, but in Computer "Science" it appears to be simply acceptable for professionals to invent new definitions when existing ones will do, invent new frameworks when existing ones are ample, and invent new services when existing ones meet the stated needs.
We need a broad array of people to take the time first to LEARN what is available, before inventing new things. It is a culture of learning that is missing. We have replaced learning with invention in Computer Science. And as a result, we are a group of artists competing for space to show our artwork, instead of teams of engineers leveraging excellent ideas to build greater and taller and stronger constructions.
The lack of reuse is not a problem that we will solve by installing a SOA product or inventing a framework. Building a culture of engineering requires that we recognize and reward the people who reuse other's ideas and work, and that we remove the obstacles to their success.
You can reuse code TODAY. If your employer paid you to, and you took the time to learn, you could do it again tomorrow.


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An intergenerational common pool resource experiment
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Drunkorexia, Manorexia, Diabulimia: New Eating Disorders?
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Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
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William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In recent weeks, I have read media reports that mentioned both "drunkorexia" and "manorexia." I have fielded questions about "diabulimia" from coworkers and friends. From the sound of these terms, it appears that there are a lot of new and recently discovered eating disorders. I certainly did not hear the word drunkorexia in medical school.
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Body Weight Exercises Are They Enough?
If they're not already, body weight exercises should be an integral part of your workout and fitness routine.
Here's why. Most body weight exercises typically mimic more natural and organic movements, which means they'll have a bigger impact on your daily living. For example, when you do a sit-up, it mimics a natural movement that you might engage in when getting out of bed.
Similarly, a squat mimics the movement you engage in when standing up. So engaging in these more natural and fluid exercises will actually improve your daily functioning.
What's I believe you will especially like is that body weight exercises allow you to challenge your body and increase your strength while reducing the likelihood of injury. That's why you notice that they are especially appropriate when you're getting back into the swing of things or you're just yet being comfortable being at the gym using dumbbells or free weights which may fall on you (yes we can all be clumsy at times when we haven't conditioned our muscles to move quickly).
One other way you may want to have the following list of body exercises at your arsenal are when you want to do a home workout or you're traveling and equipment may not be available.
Whatever the reason, I recommend including more body weight exercises into your fitness routine. At the very least, they're a great way to add some variety to your workout program and challenge your muscles in new ways.
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1. Ab Crunch – If you're looking for a basic but effective abdominal exercise, the ab crunch is where you want to start. Make sure you're not pulling on your neck, and really engage your core muscles throughout. Aim for 20-30 reps per set. To view this exercise, click here.
For another great abdominal exercise that relies on body weight, also try the Bicycle Crunch. To view this exercise, click here.
2. Squat – The squat remains one of the most effective lower body exercises, and you don't need any added weight to reap the benefits. Lower in control, and keep your back as straight as possible throughout. Want to make it even harder? Try doing squats on just one foot and have your other leg straight out in front of you. Aim for a minimum of 12-15 reps per set. To view this exercise, click here.
3. Lunge – The lunge is another great lower body body weight exercise that really targets your hamstrings and glutes (aka butt!). If you want to challenge yourself even more, try the Lateral Lunge. Aim for 10-12 reps per side. To view this exercise, click here.
4. Push-Ups – Push-ups are probably the best body weight exercise you can do, engaging your chest, triceps, and core muscles all at once. An easy way to change up the push-up while still relying on your body weight is to use a workout bench, a chair or anything else that will allow your feet to be at a higher level then your chest. Try it with your hands on a bench (view exercise), or with your feet on a bench (view exercise).
5. Pull-Ups – Pull-ups target the upper body muscles that don't get worked in the standard push-up, namely your back muscles and biceps. You can vary the width of your grip in order to target your muscles in different ways. Try a narrow grip pull-up (view exercise) or a wide grip pull-up (view exercise) to get started.
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But Maya Savir, the author of the new children's book "Ilan and the Missing Thought" (published by Am Oved; Hebrew title: "Ilan Vehadavar Shene'elam") actually wants to call attention to the half-empty glass.
"As a child I was aware of the disappearance of things," she says. "I know now, through my kids, that there are children who focus on certain things more than others, and these are the things that occupied me, the temporariness of life in nature, loss and separation. I thought about separation for a long time after it happened."
In "Ilan and the Missing Thought" there is no plot in the usual sense of the word. Not much seems to happen in Ilan's life. His grandfather comes to visit and brings him and his sister presents of the kind you have to acquire a taste for, as the book refers to them.
Ilan walks on leaves and thinks about a girl named Tali whom he likes. But in contrast to the mundane, a lot happens inside him and this is what the book is about.
Ilan does not like when he is missing things and also prefers not to long for them. He finds solutions for this. At first, they are concrete solutions. So, for example, he has a box where he keeps the things he cares about. Later on, he realizes that it is possible to store events with the help of a photo, and even longing for a beloved person can be alleviated with the help of an object that is reminiscent of them.
But the question is what can be done with thoughts that are elusive and forgotten. This is where the skill of writing comes to our aid.
"Writing down a thought eases the distress and fear of losing it," explains Savir. "When Ilan places the thought on a paper, his feeling is one of victory. So, when a child acquires writing, it's a lot more than just a skill. It's the ability to cope with the world."
Savir's own childhood was full of transitions, being the daughter of Foreign Ministry diplomat Uri Savir and director general of the Peres Center for Peace, Aliza Savir. When asked if her interest in the temporary nature of things and the fear of losing things stems from this, she says it is not necessarily the only explanation.
"It was a complicated and interesting childhood," she says. One of the less pleasant parts was saying goodbye, leaving behind friends and making her way in new surroundings. "I went to many schools. I didn't really handle formal frameworks well. I didn't like being told what to do," she says.
When she was 17, she got fed up with the constant moving, persuaded her parents that she could manage without them and attended twelfth grade at the Experimental School in Jerusalem alone.
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During the First Lebanon War, her uncle Ilan, her mother's brother, was killed. She was 10 years old.
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The name of the book's hero, Ilan, is a way of perpetuating his memory, "because I believe that words can store memories."
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