Book review "Essential Software Architecture"

Tomorrow I will finish Essential Software Architecture. Ian Gorton uses a real web-project all over the book and it fits surprisingly good in all chapters supporting the content by fabulous examples. Maybe the chapters were constructed around the project because the book itself has a way too much web-related content in my opinion. At the end of the book (actually 1/3 of it), there are chapters presenting one emerging new technology each. Of course MDA and SOA are on board. But what is really interesting is Aspect Oriented Architecture (AOP). My next book will handle SOA - maybe the one after SOA will be about AOP, we'll see :)

Book review "Effektive Software-Architekturen"

Once more, yesterday I finished a book. This time the afore mentioned "Effektive Software-Architekturen". Here, views are good explained - finally I got the difference between views and viewpoints :) This book has also lots of checklists and good advices which makes it a bit shallow. Next book I'm reading is Ian Gorton: Essential Software Architecture.

Here are a few links I want to check out: Buschmann et al 96: A system of patterns, Bass et al: Software architecture in practice, pacman03.pdf.

Book review "Handbuch der Software-Architektur"

I finished yesterday a book about software architecture: "Handbuch der Software-Architektur". It tries to cover all themes of architecture especially with a good comparison to a "real" building-architect. Unfortunately, it becomes very abstract and far away of reality to the end of the book. It's more like a study-book than a real hands-on one. So, don't read it ;)

Now I'm reading "Effektive Software-Architekturen". The introduction is very amusing with a comparison between the "Wasserfallmodell", "V-Modell" and agile methods (hier unbedingt lesen).

The beginning

I'll try to produce a blog here about interesting stuff I found on the web. I write this in english because I hope that someone of multilingual-ISS will find an interesting link or idea here. Right now, PDC is over and many high-quality-content screencasts were being generated. Here is just one of them about the future directions for MS VB (10 especially): the underscore will finally go away!!! Also look at Channel 9 in general and stay informed.