No time for serious blogging tonight, but if I may share a strong belief with you: SOA is no hype or trendy word to use. In my opinion, SOA is a serious, long-term evolutionary way for companies to organize their information flows better, and share resources with their stakeholders more efficiently through a highly flexible infrastructure. More on SOA soon by the way.

In the meantime, I should let you with that video that says practically nothing about how service-oriented architecture is implemented – but it’s still a good pitch on the value chain applications of service-oriented architectures. One thing’s that certain: demand is very high, and SOA departments of all IT service companies are buzzing places.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV860odGN5Y]

By the way, what’s the limit of time you allow yourself to watch a video on YouTube, MS SoapBox (yet to be released), DailyMotion or MetaCafé? Unless I REALLY want to watch it (Ali G. or Dragon’s Den), 2 minutes 57 seconds is a threshold I hardly break. What about you? My intuition suggests me that when it comes to videobuzzing (a word yet to be patented), the shorter the better.

I noticed through my RSS reader a boom of Perl web development job offers recently. And frankly, I’m having a hard time trying to understand where the peak comes from. Could you help me figure it out?

If I understand well (I’m everything but an expert…), PERL is a rather old UNIX language devised first to manipulate files, texts and processes through networks. It has perfectly adapted to the Internet era by easing CGI scripts writing and analyses, allowing a soft of universal access to databases, and providing handy file format conversion tools. Right. Two things that PERL seems not to do well are interactive interfaces and scientific calculation. Indeed, since PERL is a script language (like Javascript), performances are rather low when applied to anything else than text.

So, in the light of the current state of the Internet (collective intelligence, semantic algorithms, rich media, video and picture sharing, everyone has become a mini media, huge online advertising market, resurgence of portals, software as a service, social shopping, VoIP, etc.), I still don’t get why Perl development job offers have been peaking so sharply. Web services maybe, or adWords? Help, anyone!!