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Articles by Title
- 21st Century Schizoid ManRuminations on leadership, and how leadership responsibilities change with your perspective
- A Confident PredictionMusings on the history and future of Microsoft Windows
- A Day of Travails
- A Diffraction of Photographers
- A Fast Diff AlgorithmAn implementation of a Diff algorithm in VB.NET, with various techniques to improve performance
- A Nice Surprise
- A ParableLessons for anyone contemplating a disruptive, rewrite from scratch, change to a software product
- A Shortage of Analysts?Bemoaning the systemic failings which are leading to a general lack of good business analysts
- A Square Peg, and Only Round HolesMusings on whether an architect can fit neatly anywhere in a traditional IT organisation hierarchy
- A$$hole Driven Development and Other Anti-PatternsMusings on antipatterns in development, project management and IT governance
- Also from the “Foss a Siva”
- An Agile Architecture War Story
- An Eventful Day
- An Ideal Blogging Platform?
- An Uncomfortable Vision
- Andrew's Gone to Iceland – and Not Just for Fish Fingers!
- Annoyance-Based Technology SelectionMy tales of woe with that most commonplace of technology, the mobile phone :(
- Application Development Strategies
- Architects - Masters of Order and Unorder?A consideration of how an architect should handle complex or chaotic behaviour, using the Cynefin framework
- Architects AnonymousA tounge in cheek look at how addictive architecture and design work can be
- Architecture, Design and EngineeringIs IT architecture about "hidden plumbing" or "visible design" delivered to users?
- Are We Nearly There Yet?Musings on the lack of standardisation in gadget power supplies
- Articles on Agile Modeling and Architecture
- Ask A P'liceman
- Back to Cuba!
- Back to the Street
- Barbados Portfolio Update
- Beauty is Only Skin Deep
- Best Practices in Test Automation
- Blogger Me!
- Blogging: What It Is and How It Works
- Bolting Horse Cart
- Book Review Restructuring
- Business FlexibilityThe business equivalents of expansion capabilities like the spare slots in a desktop PC
- Caldera Sunset #1
- Caldera Sunset #3
- Caldera Sunset Zen
- Character-Full Trinidad
- Characteristics of a Software ArchitectMy musings on what makes a good software architect
- Cirrus Minor - A New Architecture Site
- Combining Risk FactorsA simple analytical approach to combine the effects of multiple risk factors
- Compact Camera Alienation?
- Cool Cab
- Cuba Photo Notes
- Cuba Portfolio Now Online
- Cuba Reflections
- Cuba Travel Blog – Quick Update
- Death and Service
- Death of the Microsoft Architecture Journal?
- Desert Flower
- Digital Convergence - Still WaitingAnother failed attempt to "converge" my phone. Why don't I learn?
- Domain-Specific Languages
- Domain-Specific Modelling TechniquesSome useful Domain-Specific Languages I have developed or discovered
- Don’t Pose, Please, Just Act Natural
- Don’t Rush to Judgement
- Economic Anomalies
- Economic Anomalies, Part 2
- Enterprise Architecture Conference
- Enterprise Architecture Conference 2006 - My PaperA paper on Agile Architecture which brings together many of my ideas for the first time
- Enterprise Architecture Conference 2011 Day 3
- Enterprise Architecture Design and the Integrated Architecture Framework
- Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Faded Grandeur
- Fire and Ice – Delivered
- First Bibble Plugin Published
- First Photo Blog Post
- Floating Ice
- Getting Wider?
- Glacial Panorama
- Going Guerilla
- Grockles! (Santorini Portfolio Now Online)
- Growing a Language
- Hallelujah! High ISO Which Works!
- Happy New Year!
- Hasta La Revolucion
- Hereinafter
- I Don't Want to Sound Complainin'My review of the Canon 7D. The headline: great electronics, poor ergonomics.
- I Thought They Were Supposed To Be Getting Smaller?Musings on why my laptops are getting bigger and heavier, instead of smaller and lighter
- I Told You So
- Iceland Photography Tips - A Spare Everything!A photographer's guide to Iceland
- Image Stabilisation – Know Your Limits?
- In Damnation of PHP
- Integrating External Content with WordPress
- Interfaces and Document IDs - A Rant
- IPad - Balanced Scorecard
- iPad Communications Errors
- IS Sometimes Doesn'tThe limitations of Image Stabilisation, and how camera manufacturers could address them very simply
- It Now Costs a Pound to Spend a Penny!
- It’s Only Taken a Year…
- Journey, Foreigner and StyxThoughts on what makes a good live music performance
- Just Get on the Train!
- Just In Case You Thought I Wasn’t Photographing Any Cars
- Keep Taking the Tablets
- Legislative StupidityObservations on the stupid "anti-photography" laws introduced in Britain in February 2009
- Lots of News
- Low Cost Geotagging Using Bibble
- Memo to Car Museum Curators – Give Them Space
- Metropolis - a Metaphor for IT Maturity
- Metropolis - Where Do You Want To Live Today?
- Mixed Fortunes
- Modelling an Enterprise Data ArchitectureA new approach, based on UML, for modelling the real complexity of Enterprise Data Architecture
- Modelling Change in Enterprise ITTwo simple techniques to model change in an enterprise's IT portfolio over time
- Modelling Data Mapping - A Challenge
- My "Tenset"
- My Favourite Films - An Exercise in Over-Analysis
- My Grand Circle TourMy "Grand Circle" tour of Southwestern USA: what worked, what didn't, and how to avoid sleep deprivation and scurvy!
- My Photo Gallery is Now Live
- New Blog Now Live – Please Update Your Feed
- Nice Palette
- No Plan BThoughts on the inadequacy of contingency planning on the British transport networks
- Normal Service Will Be Resumed As Soon As Possible
- Normal Service Will Be Resumed–Honest!
- Not from My Cold, Dead Hand…
- Not Good For Business
- Not So Foul Bay
- On the Cusp
- One for the “Bucket List”
- One from the Road
- Other People!
- Our Guides
- Paradigm Shift - Clear Memory Now!Why do we in IT insist on forgetting so much valuable knowledge?
- Photography Blog
- Photos from Sunny Crete!
- Please Don’t Shoot the Motorcyclists!
- Pot-lert
- Practical Enterprise Integration
- Quantum of DisappointmentI didn't like "Quantum of Solace" - here's my review!
- Red Roof Reflections
- Review - A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Review - Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Review - My Early Life
- Reykjavik “Culture Night” – One Side of the Coin
- Reykjavik “Culture Night” – The Other Side of the Coin :)
- Sandwich Day
- Season’s Greetings
- Seeing in Black and White
- Seeing in Black and White - Follow Up
- Shaun of the Dead
- Shoot Only Puffins, Leave Only Footprints
- Simply the Best!
- Smokin’
- Some Good News
- Something Fast, Something VERY Slow
- Spring is Here!
- Strategies for FlexibilityMy 2001 paper on how to design systems for flexibility
- Street Life – Cuban Style…
- Sunnier Climes
- Sunrise on the Palacio
- Technical Reference Architecture
- Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows
- Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows - Update
- That Shouldn’t Have Worked…
- That’s a Big Box!
- The Agile Architect at EAC 2006
- The Alien Has Landed, and It's &*&^(* Huge
- The Amazing Malay Apple
- The Amazing Malay Apple – Follow Up
- The Big Blog Split
- The Challenge of SerenityNotes on visiting Masstricht, a great concert, and the challenges of photographing a candlelit chapel
- The Changing Role of An IT ArchitectHow an architect's role changes over time, and through the project life-cycle
- The Cuba Travel Blog
- The Fear Premium
- The Half Arsed Agile Manifesto
- The Last Post?
- The Laws of Identity
- The Tao of the Architect
- The Tevye Scale of ApprovalInstead of binary accept/reject assessments, here's a way for an architect to record his true feelings
- The Wrong Orientation?
- The Y2KXI Bug
- Through a Glass, Darkly
- Tokenism Gone Mad
- Turning Points
- Tyrannies and Broken Business Processes
- Underwater White Balance
- Updates from Iceland…
- Using Volume Shadowing with Ntbackup Under Vista
- Valley View
- Valuing Flexibility
- Venice Photos Coming Online
- Virtual PC vs VMware Player - Further Thoughts
- Watching The Wall Go Up
- Waterfalls, Waterfalls…
- Web Service Challenges
- Website and Email Back
- Website Returns, and New Photos
- What Are The Chances Of That?
- What I Want In My Next DSLR
- What to Get for a Photographer’s Birthday
- What's in a Name?
- Who Are the Architects?How a number of people in different rules contribute to "architecture"
- Why Do Buses Come in Threes?
- Why Software Isn't Like Building Construction
- Windows Virtual PC - Breaking CompatibilityHow Microsoft have badly broken compatibility (again!) with Virtual PC and Windows 7
- Word Grammar Checker - A Nicely Carribean Flavour
- You Need Architects...
- ...And Then Three Come Along All At OnceReflections on an excellent Summer for live music
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