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A bit of a change from my more serious posts, but maybe a useful lesson in analysis, here’s the sorry tale of just how complicated I managed to make listing my top ten favourtite films. I hope it gives you a giggle.
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My Favourite Films – An Exercise in Over-Analysis
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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
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
Cirrus Minor – A New Architecture Site
Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has set up an interesting new site / blog dedicated to software architecture. Of particular note, he’s trying to put some detail on the architecture “process” which is often negelcted as a single box on the development process Continue reading
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World
Domain-Specific Languages
There seems to be quite a lot of activity on the “Domain Specific Language” front at the moment. Martin Fowler published “Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?”, in which he concludes that the common programming pattern of setting Continue reading
The Fear Premium
In an interesting echo of my last piece (Why Software Isn’t Like Building Construction), Scott Ambler has analysed bureaucratic processes as a response to management fear about what can go wrong in software development. His conclusion is that these processes Continue reading
Thursday, June 23, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World
Why Software Isn’t Like Building Construction
Many software development and management methods are founded on a basic assumption – that constructing software is rather like building a bridge or a house. Once we’ve “done the design”, actually generating the software ought to be a completely predictable, Continue reading
Monday, June 20, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World
Waltzing with Bears
A good book covering an important and negelected area Continue reading
Friday, June 10, 2005 in Reviews
Application Development Strategies
I recently attended a day of the Butler Group “Application Development Strategies” Symposium. I’ve just posted a short report on some of the more interesting discussions and presentations. Almost all of the presentations shared a reminder that we still have Continue reading
Saturday, May 21, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World
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