Monthly Archives: July 2005

Review – Enterprise Integration Patterns

I’ve just posted my review of Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolfe’s excellent book on Enterprise Integration using messaging, “Enterprise Integration Patterns”. Overall it’s an excellent book, and wiil probably become a “bible” for those involved in the high-level design of … Continue reading

Sunday, July 24, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Reviews, Thoughts on the World

Enterprise Integration Patterms

An excellent book which will become a standard reference Continue reading

Interfaces and Document IDs – A Rant

Please forgive me if this sounds like a rant, but I’m very annoyed. Someone who should know better has without warning changed a public interface, with the inevitable effect that dependent systems, in particular my blog, have broken. The offender? … Continue reading

Monday, July 18, 2005 in Thoughts on the World

Metropolis – a Metaphor for IT Maturity

I’ve just read an excellent paper by Pat Helland of Microsoft, in which he likens the development of cities and manufacturing in the 19th century to the development of systems and business models now. His conclusion – IT at the … Continue reading

Monday, July 11, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

Death of the Microsoft Architecture Journal?

Does anybody know if Microsoft have killed off their Architecture Journal? I was just about to write a post linking to it, and I find the content has been moved to an archive area and all the links have changed. … Continue reading