Distributed computing is not new, but the internet and new business models are making it affordable for smaller organisations to leverage the power of these computing networks.
 

Google Wave is being sold as ‘email re-imagined’, changing which part of email is where.  In email, the messages are the entities sent across the ethernet, mirroring the mental model of real-world traditional mail.  Wave, instead, hosts the conversation.

Most developers agree that reviewing code is an important part of (hopefully) reducing the number of bugs introduced into the system. However, the challenge is keeping your team productive whilst maintaining a code review schedule that gets enough eyes across the complete code-base.

SOA stands for service-oriented architecture. The term encompasses many meanings, but the one that I like to use is that it is a systems development and integration methodology where systems group functionality around business processes and package these into interoperable services.