Science paper by IST Austria scientists reports first evidence for 'microdomain' coupling at a mature central synapse and explores the implications for synaptic plasticity Information transmission at ...

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I've had a few people ask me about loose coupling and SOA recently. There seems to be some confusion around this concept. With the advent of web services and SOA we've been seeking to create ...

One project I worked on a few years back required every interaction with the server to first go through a servlet, a validation interface which then hit a required Business Delegate class, a Session ...

Hardware and software components that interact when necessary, but remain uncoupled from each other. For example, computers in a network are loosely coupled. When the user's client machine requires ...

Loose coupling is always a good idea. After all, what's wrong with abstracting away separate layers of concern, creating pluggability points, making your design more flexible, and creating a software ...

Loose coupling is one of those suddenly popular great ideas that have actually been around for a long time. With loose coupling come two significant benefits long sought by business and IT managers: ...

In my previous post, I discussed the virtues of loosely coupling, rising it to the level of an IT commandment. One reader, Richard Veryard, responded in his own Weblog, however, that maybe loose ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered the existence of loose coupling between calcium channels and release sensors of exocytosis at a mature central synapse in the rodent brain. The researchers show that ...