Sunday, March 30, 2008

Can't see the wood for the trees ....

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Service Orientated Architecture ( SOA ) is an architectural style of providing processes as services. It does not limit the use of :- ver...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Say it with pictures ....

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Essential IT knowledge in Venn diagram form: Figure 1 - Cost vs Benefit of customisation. (click on image for larger size) Figur...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Move over Bellatrix ....

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In the software business, there are several unforgivable curses which deserve a one way ticket to Azkaban. These include "What backup?...

Anyone feeling cold?

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I was recently asked, "where is IT heading?" Apparently, there seems to be a view that commoditisation will lead to the end o...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

For Hire!

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Though my book is progressing, it is going to take far longer than I originally anticipated and budgeted for. Whilst the writing is fairly s...
Monday, March 24, 2008

A car is a car is a car is a ....

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For all practical purposes, a Resource Oriented Architecture ( ROA ) is a Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA ) that uses RESTful web serv...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

I'll huff and I'll puff and ... ohh I like how you've painted it.

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Whenever I'm mapping out the activities (for example business processes) of an organisation, I try to use colour codes for the differen...
Monday, March 17, 2008

All quiet ....

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There is so much to talk about, but alas I have a looming deadline. So instead, I'll just post an interesting graph of three different a...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Far from a simple life ...

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Yesterday, I spoke and was on the panel at the Butler Group strategy briefing on Enterprise Architecture. I know that subjects such as Ente...
Sunday, March 09, 2008

Enterprise 2.0 Summit at Cebit

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The Enterprise 2.0 Summit at CeBIT was the first conference that I've moderated. Wow, was I nervous. I thoroughly enjoyed it, the spea...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

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Last year at OSCON, I talked about the need for competitive utility computing markets . Without these markets, many of the benefits of SaaS ...
Monday, March 03, 2008

There and back again ...

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I'm off to Enterprise 2.0 Summit at Cebit . I'm looking forward to catching up with Jenny and Euan as well as many others (includi...