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In the presentation on "Challenging the Role of the Architect" I talked about the need for a team Wiki where the lower-level details of the system documentation should be published. Some people have asked for more information about this - what...
The talk for this year's Tech.Ed was 'Challenging the Role of Architect'. The talk is about the fundamental gap that exists between the approach and skills that Architect's commonly display and what is needed from them to effectively deliver...
I'm presenting in the Architecture Track at Tech.Ed Australia again, and maybe also Tech.Ed New Zealand for the first time. Here's what I was thinking of talking about: Challenging the Role of the Architect There are as many definitions of the...
I have made the slides from the BA World presentation on 'Business Analysts v Architects' available on Slideshare . Please let me know what you think, and if you would like me to come at present it in person at your organisation or user group...
Just a quick note to let you know that Early Bird registration is open for the Australian Architecture Forum until July 15. We are assembling a fantastic line-up of international speakers and Open Space participants from across the breadth of the IT landscape...
I’ve been involved with the Australian Architecture Forum for some time now, from the outside through an involvement with IASA. Now that I’m with Object I have an opportunity to be involved from the inside, given that Object run the conference...
I haven’t blogged about this yet, but I have been thinking about it of late with some work that is happening at Object so I thought I would. In November I presented at the Strategic Architecture Forum in San Francisco. This conference sees Enterprise...
Thanks to everyone that attended the presentation last night at the Victoria.NET Dev SIG. Thanks especially for the lively discussion at the end. I’ve uploaded the presentation to SlideShare so you can review it again at your leisure. Please feel...
Very late notice (it kind of snuck up on me like everything else does), but I am presenting tonight. The presentation is on my favourite topic of career development. and is about how developers can learn to become great architects and how architects can...
There are compelling reasons for designing systems in a way to minimise the use of recourses and the carbon footprint of each system or application. If you are not across the imperative to immediately address carbon emissions then I implore you to read...
The call for papers for the ASWEC 2009 Conference to be held on the Gold Coast 14-17 April is now open. This year’s topic is “Agile, the New Mainstream”… ASWEC provides a recognised forum for exchanging experience and new research results in software...
In his keynote for Tech.Ed 2008 in the US Bill Gates made a passing comment that chips aren’t going to be getting any faster any more. Moore’s Law is still working, but rather than processing power increasing linearly as it has until recently, chips...
HTML is an excellent technology, and I truly raise my hat to Sir Tim Berners-Lee for inventing it. My suggestion is that by now HTML is no longer suitable as either an application development platform or is optimal an information delivery method...
As an Architect I concentrate less on detail these days and more on fluffy bits, so I get to spend time looking at things that are coming down the pipe and trends and changes in the future. I'm aware that many other Architects are focused differently...
So Tech.Ed is over for another year. No matter what I might be doing and where I might be heading I still have a very close affinity with technology (I'm still very much a geek at heart, and even my mug says so!) and so as much as Tech.Ed is...
I'm back at Tech.Ed Australia this year, so come see me: ARC204 Career Development for Architects Wednesday, 3-9-2008 14:15 - 15:30, Parkside Auditorium The top tier of the career pyramid in the development area belongs to Architects and most Developers...
A discussion of the history of web browsers as a UI technology for applications, issues with the use of browsers and other models that are more successful....
A discussion of the architectural issues re COTS systems and my dislike for a growing trend towards 'implement COTS at all costs' approach....