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