Wow this semester is going by fast. I can't beleive it is already almost halftime. I have kept up on the readings and reviewing of my notes so I am looking forward to doing well on the test. We sure have covered a lot of information over the past month and a half, so now it's a matter of organizing the material and my thoughts. I see that we are going to be discussing SOA next week. I am glad since my paper is on SOA Governance and I still don't have that comfortable a grasp of the concept. I bought the optional book "Understanding SOA with Web Services" so I am sure that book will be helpful as secondary readings.

I found an interesting article on SOA Governance written by author David Linthicum.

Hopefully Professor will take a moment and discuss what SOA Governance is during next week's lecture.

Here's an RSS feed you might like to check out.

I also was informed recently about this neat site that you can made donations (loans) to people in need and they actually pay you back. For example, some poor farmer in China needing to buy seed. A pool of people get together $25 max per loan to help someone out. This man then takes the loan out and pays it back little at a time.