Not all of a large system will be well designed and this can pull your attention in multiple directions. The goal is to have the most important part s of the system well designed – strategic d...Read More
Phases in a developers life Enthusiastic – build programs for real people – but its boring and uncool The disillusioned developer – you figure real people have boring problems Buil...Read More
A great architect will: be a coach be an expert – have instinct be an influencer have the ability to understand what’s in place and tell stories about it have empathy to understand what is...Read More
Standardization is essential for certain parts of the stack, those items that change least frequently i.e lower in the stack. Higher in the stack needs to change frequently and here standardization ki...Read More
What were the challenges faced and how they were overcome. Digital History 1995 – web site launched with a simple portal – experimental project 2006 – Europe largest online newspaper...Read More
Focus on the power of people and today’s network opportunity. Your customers, competitors and all the ideas and innovation is on the network. There is very few things the browser cannot do, ...Read More
How IT is changing with the advent of cloud computing. Why IT is changing Not all IT is the same, not all IT has value as some had commoditised. This occurred through the warfare of technological adva...Read More
is this a renaissance for the database? today we have new problems and new challenges, but the computing power we now have provides alternatives. This in turn is changing the approaches that are bei...Read More
WOA is an emergent phenomenon across Start-ups and the Enterprise. Top level history of development: Structured Object Oriented Service Oriented – turn applications into open platforms SOAP, WSD...Read More
Is computing science? is software engineering? the answers Tony Hoare argues must be the same! In the extremes: Scientist Scientist interested in the long term and scientific truth which has no fini...Read More