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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 Adjustable Architecture and Minimising Waste An Agile Architecture War Story An AI Scares Itself, and Me 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 Lessons from a Watch Collection 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 Can No-One Write A Good Book About Oracle SOA? Caught by The Law! Channel Hopping Mad! 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 Do We Want Product Development, or Platform Flexibility? Does Agile Miss The Point About Engineering? Does Your Broadband Beat a Carrier Pigeon? Domain-Specific Languages Domain-Specific Modelling Techniques Some useful Domain-Specific Languages I have developed or discovered Efficient Fuzzy Matching at Word Level 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 Fashion Makes Doing IT Harder Form vs Function - a Tail 🙂 of Three Mice Growing a Language How Strong Is Your Programming Language? I Told You So Integration Or Incantation? Metropolis - a Metaphor for IT Maturity Metropolis - Where Do You Want To Live Today? Microsoft : Busy Fixing What Ain't Broke 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 First Android App: Stash-It! 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? Platform Flexibility - It's Alive! Practical Enterprise Integration Red Roof Reflections Review - Enterprise Integration Patterns SharePoint: Simply C%@p, or Really Complicated C%@p? 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 Testing vs Modelling, Detection vs Prediction, Hope vs Knowledge The Agile Architect at EAC 2006 The Architect's USP The Changing Role of An IT Architect How an architect's role changes over time, and through the project life-cycle The Colour Nazis The Fear Premium The Half Arsed Agile Manifesto The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good The Software Utility Cycle 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? Things Which Really Bug Me About the Kindle Tyranny of the Colour Blind Musings on why Microsoft are abandoning colour as a dimension for information visualisation Web Service Challenges Webkit, KitKat and Deadlocks! What Do I Mean by "Agile Architecture"? Who Are the Architects? How a number of people in different rules contribute to "architecture" Why I (Still) Do Programming Why REST Doesn't Make Life More Rest-full Why Software Isn't Like Building Construction You Need Architects...
Android An Odd Omission Developing for Android Dozy Android My First Android App: Stash-It! Platform Flexibility - It's Alive! That Was Too easy... Webkit, KitKat and Deadlocks!
Apps My First Android App: Stash-It!
Barbados Barbados – Mojo Reanimated Barbados Portfolio Update Blast from the Past Don’t Pose, Please, Just Act Natural Farewell, Ernie Getting High (But Not That High)! Goodbye Dr. Love Hallelujah! High ISO Which Works! Improved Capture Into the (Infra)Red Monochrome, Sort Of… Not So Foul Bay Olympus TG6 – Does the T Really Stand for “Tough”? Red Roof Reflections Seeing in the Dark Sunnier Climes Thar She Blows! The Amazing Malay Apple The Amazing Malay Apple – Follow Up The Hut of Alleged Towels Walker’s Reserve
Bhutan Travel Blog A "Found" Quadtych A Splash of Colour A Surprisingly Tricky Subject After the Overture, the Performance Bhumtang Yiddle-I-Po Bhutan: What Technology Worked, and What Didn't Bread Delivery Co-operative Macaques Culture and Food From Nobgang to Bumthang... Getting Shooting In Close Just So You Understand What I'm On About Last Light Long Drive, but Worth It Of Temples, Portals and Knobs... Oh Well... On the Road Again Panorama from Kahmsum Chorten Return to Kathmandu Tantric Temple The Golden Bhudda The Monastery Institute The Return to Paro The Rinpung Zhong The Road to Kathmandu The World's Worst Panorama - 2015 Three Little Maids from School To The Tiger's Nest To Thimpu
Code & Development A Fast Diff Algorithm An implementation of a Diff algorithm in VB.NET, with various techniques to improve performance Blogger Me! Caught by The Law! Combining Risk Factors A simple analytical approach to combine the effects of multiple risk factors Conversion Challenges Developing for Android Do We Want Product Development, or Platform Flexibility? Domain-Specific Languages Efficient Fuzzy Matching at Word Level Enterprise Integration Patterns First Bibble Plugin Published Growing a Language How Strong Is Your Programming Language? In Damnation of PHP Inferring Algorithms: How Random is Your Music Player? 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! My First Android App: Stash-It! Platform Flexibility - It's Alive! Random? That's a Coincidence... SharePoint: Simply C%@p, or Really Complicated C%@p? The Micro Four Thirds Lens Correction Project Using Volume Shadowing with Ntbackup Under Vista Webkit, KitKat and Deadlocks! Why I (Still) Do Programming Why REST Doesn't Make Life More Rest-full
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 Cool Cab – Hold It Right There! Cuba Photo Notes Cuba Portfolio Now Online Cuba Reflections Cuba Travel Blog – Quick Update Does a Photograph Portray the Subject, or the Photographer? 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
Galaxy Note Developing for Android Did I Speak Too Soon? Galaxy Note Battery Problem Galaxy Note Battery Problem - Update Keeping Current Mojo Not Within Normal Operational Parameters Notes on the Note Time to Change My Tablets USA 2012 - Technical Review Why the Galaxy Note is a Better Business Tool than the iPad
Hawaii Travel Blog A European Visitor’s Guide to Hawaii Amusing Pineapples, Hilarious Beach Blanket! Helicopter over Hawaii Hunting Coffee in Hana Off To Hawaii Pearl Harbor To The Summit Tours and Shows Waimea Canyon Waimea to Waikiki We're On The Road FROM Hana! We're On The Road To Hana...
Humour ‘Nuff Said A Confident Prediction Musings on the history and future of Microsoft Windows A First Day Mistake I've Never Seen on LinkedIn A Laser-Like Focus? 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 Are British Airways a Bus Company? Ask A P'liceman Balloon Fiestas - The Awards Design Lessons: Hotel Rooms Digital Convergence - Still Waiting Another failed attempt to "converge" my phone. Why don't I learn? Disasters and Dystopias: Where Are We Now? Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover Dysfunctional Hotel - Not Impressed! 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 It’s Screen Time! It's Not Over… Just Get on the Train! Just Get On the Train!, Updated Master, Master, Give Us A Sign My Favourite Films - An Exercise in Over-Analysis My New Avatar – Thanks Dall-E! No Middle Way Normal Service Of This Joke Will Be Resumed Shortly Normal Service Will Be Resumed After Completion Of This Rant One of Those Days… Photos from Sunny Crete! Please Don’t Shoot the Motorcyclists! Scarily Bad Schizo! Shit Hit Fan! Simply the Best! The Andrew Johnston Iceland Camouflage Masterclass The Andrew Johnston Namib Desert Camouflage Masterclass The British Government Reviews Its Brexit Strategy The Decisive Moment The Half Arsed Agile Manifesto The Hut of Alleged Towels The Jester and The Unicorn The Tevye Scale of Approval Instead of binary accept/reject assessments, here's a way for an architect to record his true feelings The Twin-Lens Reflex 🙂 The World’s Worst Panorama 2023 This is Really Scary… Two Nations Divided By A Common Language What Are The Chances Of That? What Are Your Waypoints? What Camera Should I Buy? What's in a Name? Word Grammar Checker - A Nicely Carribean Flavour World War Z - One from the Ministry of Strange Coincidences... You Need Architects...
Iceland Travel Blog A Day of Travails A Delightful Little Surprise Also from the “Foss a Siva” An Eventful Day Andrew's Gone to Iceland – and Not Just for Fish Fingers! Back to the ‘Fray Desert Flower Fire and Ice – Delivered Fixing Holes Floating Ice Glacial Panorama Iceland Album Now Online! 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 Photographing Waterfalls 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… The Andrew Johnston Iceland Camouflage Masterclass The Back of Beyond Updates from Iceland… Waterfalls, Waterfalls…
Iceland2024 A Long Road, But a Great Destination Inappropriate Footwear, and an Inaccurate Prediction No Sitting Down Time On Reflection, This is Really Pretty The Cold As Ice Blog The Cold Gives Me a Cold The Road North The World’s Worst Panorama 2024 Three Kirks and a Kirkufell!
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 Keeping Current Not from My Cold, Dead Hand… Not Good For Business Notes on the Note Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows - Update Time to Change My Tablets Tyrannies and Broken Business Processes Why the Galaxy Note is a Better Business Tool than the iPad
Italy 2013 Back to Italy! Down to the Lakes Finally, in the Mountains From Bergamo to Verona The Lakes Get Posher Through The Dolomites
Italy 2024 (In)Correct Tripod Technique! A Curse Manifests The Beauty of Tuscany The World’s Second Worst Panorama 2024 Welcome to Tuscany What’s That Shiny Yellow Thing?
Lanzarote 2022 The World’s Worst Panorama, 2022
Micro Four Thirds A Curse Manifests Busy Bee… Buttons Or Switches? Buttons Are Better! Camera History Exploring the Souks Finally, Something Smaller First Impressions of the Panasonic GH2 Getting Ahead of the Curve – Final Update? I Invoke the Dragon Gods MFT: Formula, What Formula? Morocco - Did I Need Two Camera Systems? Morocco - What Worked and What Didn't New Toy, New Challenges Panasonic G9. Close? Yes. Cigar? No. Picturing Zanzibar - Advice for Photographers Seeing in the Dark The Achilles Heel The Micro Four Thirds Lens Correction Project The Need for (Shutter) Speed? Unexpected Support What's More Important: Hardware or Software? What's My Favourite Micro 4/3 Lens?
Mongolia A Custom More Honoured In the Breach A Long But Rewarding Day Camels and Dunes Cows to the Left of Me, Gers to the Right I Wuz There! Khan's Revenge Oops! That Was More Sudden Than Expected The 20 Second Selfie! The Andrew Johnston Unintentional Desert Camouflage Masterclass 2025 The Mongoblog The World’s Worst Panorama 2025 Thirsty Friday
Morocco Travel Blog A Career in Modelling? A Laser-Like Focus? Abstract from the Erg Chebbi Back to Marrakech Dark Shadows Day Three - Gardens, Snakes and Haggling Exploring Ait Ben Haddou Exploring the Souks First Attempt at a Star Trail Getting Covered Into the a Sahara - Sort Of... Kicking Up Some Dust Looking Down Dark Alleys… Man at Work Morocco - Did I Need Two Camera Systems? Morocco - What Worked and What Didn't Morocco Portfolio Uploaded Off to Morocco Over the Mountains Shooting Camels Starting Back The Water Seller
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 First Android App: Stash-It! 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
Myanmar Travel Blog 3D Photos from Myanmar A Broader View A New Twist Brilliant Balloons, Terrific Temples, and a Hip-Hop Heffalump! Capture and Visualisations Cheerfully Manic Drifting Along Early Starts In the Air Again! Land, Sea (Well, Lake) and Air Myanmar Musings (What Worked and What Didn't) On the Road to Mandalay The British Government Reviews Its Brexit Strategy The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good The World's Worst Panorama - 2017 Travel Blogging and Photo Editing
Namibia Travel Blog A Long Drive, then a Great Opener And Another Dead Tree... Back On The Road Deadvlei Empty Ghost Towns Hot Dry Desert, Cold Damp Desert Into the Kalahari Into Wolwedans Namibia – What Worked and What Didn't Nice Chopper (Ride) Normal Service Will Be Resumed After Completion Of This Rant Oryx from the air Raising the Bar... Testing, Testing The Andrew Johnston Iceland Camouflage Masterclass The Andrew Johnston Namib Desert Camouflage Masterclass The Quiver Tree Forest The Twin-Lens Reflex 🙂 The Wolwedans Game Drive The World's Worst Panorama 2018 Thrills and Disappointments Typically Tropical! We're On The Road To Nowhere
Patagonia Have I Offended El Gauchito Gil? It’s a Long Drive, to Torres del Paine (Almost works!) It’s a Mystery, It’s a Mystery, I’m Just Searching for a Clue Mixed Fortunes No Sleep Till … Images? Onwards and Upwards (A Little…) Rainbows Rising Suitable for 6 Year Old Boys of All Ages The World’s Worst Panorama 2023 This is Really Scary… Water, Water, Tunch We’re Going on a Guanaco Hunt! Where’s Wally?
PCs/Laptops "This is Bloody Dangerous!" A Confident Prediction Musings on the history and future of Microsoft Windows An Experiment Are We Nearly There Yet? Musings on the lack of standardisation in gadget power supplies Backing Up Caught by The Law! Death of an Alien Form vs Function - a Tail 🙂 of Three Mice I Thought They Were Supposed To Be Getting Smaller? Musings on why my laptops are getting bigger and heavier, instead of smaller and lighter It’s Screen Time! Keep Taking the Tablets Mac OSX–A Third-Class OS? Does Apple's opposition to virtualisation create a technical ghetto? Microsoft : Busy Fixing What Ain't Broke Not from My Cold, Dead Hand… Standardising the Mac Keyboard The Alien Has Landed, and It's &*&^(* Huge The Colour Nazis The Experiment Continues Weinberg's New Law, and the Upgrade Cascade Why I Like My MacBook, But I'm Beginning To Really Hate Apple
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, Part 2 Happy New Year! Legislative Stupidity Observations on the stupid "anti-photography" laws introduced in Britain in February 2009 Lots of News Meet the Guardian! 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 One for the “Bucket List” Season’s Greetings That's a Big Box! The Last Post? Valley View What to Get for a Photographer’s Birthday
Photography (In)Correct Tripod Technique! 3D Photos from Myanmar A "False Colour" Experiment A "Found" Quadtych A Bit Stretched! A Case for Extreme HDR? A Curse Manifests A Custom More Honoured In the Breach A Day of Travails A Delightful Little Surprise A Diffraction of Photographers A Failure of Curation A Parable Lessons for anyone contemplating a disruptive, rewrite from scratch, change to a software product A Surprisingly Tricky Subject A Visitation Absence of Elephant Album Update All Change… All Change... (part 2) An Open Letter to Panasonic An Uncomfortable Vision Ansel Would Be Proud? Are There More Bricks or Photos? Auto Everything? Not Quite... Backing Up Barbados Portfolio Update Bhutan: What Technology Worked, and What Didn't Blast from the Past Bolting Horse Cart Busy Bee… Buttons Or Switches? Buttons Are Better! Caldera Sunset #1 Caldera Sunset #3 Caldera Sunset Zen Camera History Camera History Update Canon EOS 70D: Cynical, Substantial or Stepping Stone? Capturing the Setting Sun Compact Camera Alienation? Cool Cab Cool Cab – Hold It Right There! Crash, Bang, Wallop, What a Picture Creating 3D Images for On-Screen Display Crete Portfolio Cuba Photo Notes Cuba Portfolio Now Online Dark Shadows Do We Want Product Development, or Platform Flexibility? Does a Photograph Portray the Subject, or the Photographer? Don’t Pose, Please, Just Act Natural Don’t Rush to Judgement Eating the Elephant (The Tail-Piece) Edge of Silence Enlightenment Evolution of an Image Exploring the Souks Finally, Something Smaller First Impressions of the Panasonic GH2 First Attempt at a Star Trail First Bibble Plugin Published First Photo Blog Post Getting Ahead of the Curve Getting Ahead of the Curve – Final Update? Getting Ahead of the Curve - Update Getting High (But Not That High)! Grockles! (Santorini Portfolio Now Online) Hallelujah! High ISO Which Works! Hereinafter Hungry Birds! Hunting Coffee in Hana I Don't Want to Sound Complainin' My review of the Canon 7D. The headline: great electronics, poor ergonomics. I Invoke the Dragon Gods Iceland Album Now Online! Iceland Photography Tips - A Spare Everything! A photographer's guide to Iceland Image Stabilisation – Know Your Limits? Improved Capture In Close Infrared White Balance Into the (Infra)Red IS Sometimes Doesn't The limitations of Image Stabilisation, and how camera manufacturers could address them very simply It's Not Just What You Do With It, Size IS Important It's Not the Camera, It's the Photographer... Well, Sort Of... Jeepers! Last Light Last Light Before Lockdown Last Light: A New Dawn? Legislative Stupidity Observations on the stupid "anti-photography" laws introduced in Britain in February 2009 Looking Down Dark Alleys… Lots of News Low Cost Geotagging Using Bibble Man at Work Meet the FrankenTripod Memo to Car Museum Curators – Give Them Space Monochrome, Sort Of… More Multishot Techniques, and Going 3D Morocco - Did I Need Two Camera Systems? Morocco - What Worked and What Didn't Morocco Portfolio Uploaded Multi-shot Photography: Alive and Clicking 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 My Travel Page Myanmar Musings (What Worked and What Didn't) Namibia – What Worked and What Didn't New Toy, New Challenges Nice Palette Night-Time Photography with the Sony RX100 Mk IV Normal Service Will Be Resumed–Honest! Oh Well... Olympus TG6 – Does the T Really Stand for “Tough”? Panasonic G9. Close? Yes. Cigar? No. Panasonic GX8 – First Impressions Photographic Anachronisms Photographing Waterfalls Photography Blog Picturing Uzbekistan – Advice for Photographers Picturing Zanzibar - Advice for Photographers Platform Flexibility - It's Alive! Positively On Fire… Raising the Bar... Random? That's a Coincidence... Red Roof Reflections Remember When There Was Something Called Dark and You Couldn't Make Photographs? Review - Olympus TG2 "Tough" Camera Seeing in Black and White Seeing in Black and White - Follow Up Seeing in the Dark Shoot Only Puffins, Leave Only Footprints Singin’ the Blues… Small is Beautiful Snap! Splendidly Dodgy! Spring is Here! Taking the All-Round View Taking the Long View Thar She Blows! That Shouldn’t Have Worked… That Was Quick… That’s Better! The Achilles Heel The Amazing Malay Apple The Amazing Malay Apple – Follow Up The Back of Beyond The Challenge of Serenity Notes on visiting Masstricht, a great concert, and the challenges of photographing a candlelit chapel The Decisive Moment The Micro Four Thirds Lens Correction Project The Need for (Shutter) Speed? The Tail End The Twin-Lens Reflex 🙂 The World’s Worst Panorama 2023 The World's Worst Panorama 2018 The Zimanga 2025 Group Photo This is Really Scary… Through a Glass, Darkly Travel Blogging and Photo Editing UK’s Strongest Man (And Woman!) 2023 Underwater White Balance Unexpected Support USA 2012 - Technical Review Venice Photos Coming Online Watching The Wall Go Up Website Returns, and New Photos What Camera Should I Buy? What I Want In My Next DSLR What I Want In My Next DSLR - Progress Report What to Get for a Photographer’s Birthday What's More Important: Hardware or Software? What's My Favourite Micro 4/3 Lens? Wonderful Things Yes, Kit DOES Matter
Reviews ...And Then Three Come Along All At Once Reflections on an excellent Summer for live music A catholic Taste in Films? A Heretical Proposition A Tide In The Affairs Of Men Observations on the Inaudible, Incomprehensible and Impossible "Interstellar" Action At A Distance An Ideal Blogging Platform? Annoyance-Based Technology Selection My tales of woe with that most commonplace of technology, the mobile phone 🙁 Barbados – Mojo Reanimated (more...)

Reviews (continued) Beauty is Only Skin Deep Can No-One Write A Good Book About Oracle SOA? Digital Convergence - Still Waiting Another failed attempt to "converge" my phone. Why don't I learn? Edge of Silence Excellent Service 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 Olympus TG6 – Does the T Really Stand for “Tough”? 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 Review - Olympus TG2 "Tough" Camera Review: A House of Dynamite Secret State - A Review The Challenge of Serenity Notes on visiting Masstricht, a great concert, and the challenges of photographing a candlelit chapel Tokenism Gone Mad Twin Tales of Sporting Daring-Do Valuing Flexibility Watching The Wall Go Up Why Do Buses Come in Threes? World War Z - One from the Ministry of Strange Coincidences...
Santorini Backing Up Caldera Sunset #1 Caldera Sunset #3 Caldera Sunset Zen First Photo Blog Post Grockles! (Santorini Portfolio Now Online)
Sustainability 4g CO2 Per Email. Really??? An AI Scares Itself, and Me The Unhelpful Amp-hour Walker’s Reserve When You Wish … A Different Approach To Sourcing
Thoughts on the World "This is Bloody Dangerous!" (In)Correct Tripod Technique! ...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 4g CO2 Per Email. Really??? A Bit of Variety A Bit Stretched! A catholic Taste in Films? A Confident Prediction Musings on the history and future of Microsoft Windows A European Visitor’s Guide to Hawaii A Failure of Curation A Fast Diff Algorithm An implementation of a Diff algorithm in VB.NET, with various techniques to improve performance A First Day Mistake I've Never Seen on LinkedIn A Heretical Proposition A Laser-Like Focus? A Nice Surprise A Parable Lessons for anyone contemplating a disruptive, rewrite from scratch, change to a software product A Ray of Sunshine 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 Visitation A$$hole Driven Development and Other Anti-Patterns Musings on antipatterns in development, project management and IT governance Acceptable Update Strategies Action At A Distance Adjustable Architecture and Minimising Waste An Agile Architecture War Story An AI Scares Itself, and Me An Experiment An Odd Omission Annoyance-Based Technology Selection My tales of woe with that most commonplace of technology, the mobile phone 🙁 Ansel Would Be Proud? 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 Lessons from a Watch Collection Architecture, Design and Engineering Is IT architecture about "hidden plumbing" or "visible design" delivered to users? Are British Airways a Bus Company? Are There More Bricks or Photos? Are We Becoming the Eloi? Are We Becoming the Eloi? The Academic Version Are We Nearly There Yet? Musings on the lack of standardisation in gadget power supplies Back to the ‘Fray Back to the Future Backing Up Balloon Fiestas - The Awards Barbados – Mojo Reanimated 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 Business Models Busy Bee… Buttons Or Switches? Buttons Are Better! Can No-One Write A Good Book About Oracle SOA? Canon EOS 70D: Cynical, Substantial or Stepping Stone? Caught by The Law! Channel Hopping Mad! Characteristics of a Software Architect My musings on what makes a good software architect Cirrus Minor - A New Architecture Site Collection, or Obsession? Combining Risk Factors A simple analytical approach to combine the effects of multiple risk factors Compact Camera Alienation? Crash, Bang, Wallop, What a Picture Cross-Posting Musings on how to streamline the photo blogging process Death and Service Death of an Alien Death of the Microsoft Architecture Journal? Demolition Man Design Lessons: Hotel Rooms Did I Speak Too Soon? Digital Convergence - Still Waiting Another failed attempt to "converge" my phone. Why don't I learn? Disasters and Dystopias: Where Are We Now? Do We Want Product Development, or Platform Flexibility? Does Your Broadband Beat a Carrier Pigeon? Domain-Specific Languages Domain-Specific Modelling Techniques Some useful Domain-Specific Languages I have developed or discovered Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover Dozy Android Dysfunctional Hotel - Not Impressed! Edge of Silence Enlightenment 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 Evolution of an Image Farewell, Ernie Fashion Makes Doing IT Harder Finally, Something Smaller First Impressions of the Panasonic GH2 Fraud Prevention: Why Don't Banks Do More? From Nobgang to Bumthang... From the Ministry of Strange Coincidences... Getting Ahead of the Curve - Update Getting High (But Not That High)! Going Greener! Goodbye Dr. Love Google Bowls a Googly Growing a Language How Hard Can It Possibly Be? Hungry Birds! 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 Icons, or Heroes? Improved Capture In Damnation of PHP Inferring Algorithms: How Random is Your Music Player? Integration Or Incantation? Interfaces and Document IDs - A Rant iPad Communications Errors Is Theatre Killing Theatre? It's Not Just What You Do With It, Size IS Important Jon Lord RIP Journey, Foreigner and Styx Thoughts on what makes a good live music performance Just Get on the Train! Just Get On the Train!, Updated Keep Taking the Tablets Keeping Current Last Light Before Lockdown Last Light: A New Dawn? Legislative Stupidity Observations on the stupid "anti-photography" laws introduced in Britain in February 2009 Liberation from the "Frightful Five" Lies, Damn' Lies... Lots of News Mac OSX–A Third-Class OS? Does Apple's opposition to virtualisation create a technical ghetto? Macs Are Really Easy? Ha! Man At Work! Meet the Guardian! Metropolis - a Metaphor for IT Maturity Metropolis - Where Do You Want To Live Today? Microsoft : Busy Fixing What Ain't Broke 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 Mojo Not Within Normal Operational Parameters Morocco - What Worked and What Didn't Multi-shot Photography: Alive and Clicking My Favourite Films - An Exercise in Over-Analysis My First Android App: Stash-It! My New Avatar – Thanks Dall-E! Myanmar Musings (What Worked and What Didn't) No Middle Way No Plan B Thoughts on the inadequacy of contingency planning on the British transport networks Normal Service Of This Joke Will Be Resumed Shortly Normal Service Will Be Resumed After Completion Of This Rant Not from My Cold, Dead Hand… Notes on the Note Numeracy and Spurious Accuracy OK Google, Here's Another One... On the Cusp One of Those Days… Panasonic G9. Close? Yes. Cigar? No. Paradigm Shift - Clear Memory Now! Why do we in IT insist on forgetting so much valuable knowledge? Pearl Harbor Platform Flexibility - It's Alive! Positively On Fire… Prediction Realised: The AlpinerX Random? That's a Coincidence... Review - A Short History of Nearly Everything Review - Enterprise Integration Patterns Review - My Early Life Review: A House of Dynamite RIP Google Currents Scarily Bad Scarily Good Scary Format Reversal Schizo! Secret State - A Review SharePoint: Simply C%@p, or Really Complicated C%@p? Shit Hit Fan! Singing With Each Other Small is Beautiful Snap! Some Good News Splendidly Dodgy! Standardising the Mac Keyboard Strategies for Flexibility My 2001 paper on how to design systems for flexibility Sunset Grove Taking the All-Round View Taking the Long View Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows - Update That Was Too easy... That's an Understatement! The Agile Architect at EAC 2006 The Alien Has Landed, and It's &*&^(* Huge The British Government Reviews Its Brexit Strategy The Changing Role of An IT Architect How an architect's role changes over time, and through the project life-cycle The Colour Nazis The Concert for Jon Lord The Decisive Moment The Favourite: A Great Opportunity Missed The Fear Premium The Hut of Alleged Towels The Jester and The Unicorn The Laws of Identity The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good The Software Utility Cycle 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 Unhelpful Amp-hour The Wrong Orientation? 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