Rockford Lhotka
lhotka.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Rockford Lhotka, a .NET developer and author, writes about software architecture, Git workflows, .NET's future, and development practice.
What HN saysHN commenters cite his experience with SOA and link his posts on Windows app testing and Silverlight.
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phs318u · 2019-04-17
Having pre-dated SOA, been heavily involved in implementing SOA, and then watched SOA die on the vine, the overriding lesson was that technologists too often focus on syntactic coupling and completely forget about semantic coupling (by far, the harder problem).
For all it's highly proscribed, heavyweight, over-engineered approach, SOA could have succeeded if the focus of implementations been on the semantic coupling problem.
Sadly, I see little evidence that the majority of the current crop of technologists have learned this lesson (irrespective of the technology choices).
http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/SemanticCouplingTheElephantInTheSOARoom.a…
mtinkerhess · 2013-04-10
You should be able to give testers an installer package for your app without giving them the source code:
http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/TestingAWinRTAppOnASurfaceRT.aspx
pseale · 2011-07-14
I think I need to add something to my post, because so many people are reacting badly to it.
If it helps, for context, read this article: http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/WhySilverlightIsTheFuture.aspx and then maybe my takeaways #1-4 will make better sense after you see what kind of opinions are normal in .NET land.