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Computer Engineering
Billg on Interop
Last week Bill Gates wrote an email about interop which is interesting because emails from Bill...
Author: hdsw Date: 02/08/2005
Training Videos
As I am now a manager I have to sit through an ever increasing number of US online training videos....
Author: hdsw Date: 02/07/2005
Novell NDS migration and Quest
I went to a presentation on Friday by Quest Software on their Novell migration tools (NDS Migrator)...
Author: hdsw Date: 02/07/2005
Host Integration Server 2004 IP DLC Setup, dependant connection configuration and test
Three weeks ago I did a demo of the Host Integration Server 2004 IP DLC setup and configuration at...
Author: hdsw Date: 02/02/2005
Gartner on Infrastructure
I am not a huge fan of Gartner or indeed any of the analysts. As a sweeping generalisation I feel...
Author: hdsw Date: 02/01/2005
Mapping Organisations to Technology
One of the interesting things about my new job is that I get out a lot and talk to customers who are...
Author: hdsw Date: 01/31/2005
DSI and Indy
I have just presented to a group of very senior IT managers in very large UK Enterprises about the...
Author: hdsw Date: 01/26/2005
Interoprability and HIS webcasts
So January is interop month at Microsoft: https://www.interopmonth.com/home/ HIS 2005 are doing a...
Author: hdsw Date: 01/16/2005
Restart
So I haven’t been doing much blogging recently (ok, so I haven’t done any). This is because I took...
Author: hdsw Date: 01/16/2005
Novell at IT Forum
I was meant to be giving a Novell Netware talk at the UK IT Forum on Jan 13 in Birmingham but read...
Author: hdsw Date: 12/10/2004
Mainframe at IT Forum
I am giving the HIS talk at the UK IT Forum on Jan 13 in Birmingham and so am busy preparing. The...
Author: hdsw Date: 12/10/2004
Microsoft Tools for Domain Specific Languages Technology Preview (October 2004 Release)
The designer for DSL's has been released as a technology preview.....
Author: hdsw Date: 11/08/2004
Software Tools Event
This free one-day event will provide an overview of the current landscape around tools, methods and...
Author: hdsw Date: 11/05/2004
MSDN Connection: Getting the right information to you
This isn’t very architecturally focused, technical or even very earth shattering but it is something...
Author: hdsw Date: 09/16/2004
Semantic Web, Ebay, Google and Amazon
A few days ago I blogged about the importance of Google, Amazon and ebay in commerce going forward...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/04/2004
Mobile Communities
At Microsoft in the UK we have all been issued with the Orange E200 Smart Phone as our mobile phone....
Author: hdsw Date: 08/04/2004
Event Driven Architecture EDA
There has been a lot of buzz recently about the latest Three Letter Acronym (TLA); Event Driven...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/04/2004
Google, Ebay, Amazon and Web Services
So I am still working on my super dooper Goolizer program and am getting various bits of it to work,...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/02/2004
Enterprise Architecture Article
CNet published and interesting article at...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/02/2004
ISP's and email
Yet again I have spent a goodly chunk of my weekend fixing people’s PC’s. The last round...
Author: hdsw Date: 07/26/2004
My Architecture
So this is a rather off topic (architecture, software engineering or indeed computing) but is...
Author: hdsw Date: 07/20/2004
Computer Science Courses
If you have read my blog before you will probably know that I am very keen to improve the level and...
Author: hdsw Date: 07/20/2004
Security Architecture
One of the disadvantages about being the oldest in the group, apart from receding hair and growing...
Author: hdsw Date: 07/14/2004
Business Rules
Nowadays there is a lot of pressure on the middle tier of the three tier stack from both the...
Author: hdsw Date: 07/03/2004
Danger as an architectural teaching mechanism
Yesterday I postulated that an engineering training is valuable in architecture because it teaches...
Author: hdsw Date: 06/24/2004
Architectural Power
I was brought up in an era before computers and computer science degrees and so of necessity did an...
Author: hdsw Date: 06/23/2004
Architecture Buzzword Bingo
So I had to deliver a Keynote about architecture at the EMEA Patterns and Practises summit here in...
Author: hdsw Date: 06/15/2004
Architects Role and Shadowing
I had an interesting request from an architect today which was in the area of skills and...
Author: hdsw Date: 06/07/2004
Computer Science Courses in 2015
As you might be aware from my previous blogs I am very keen on providing high quality architectural...
Author: hdsw Date: 06/02/2004
Team System (Burton)
At last Burton has been announced at teched. It is such a new and important element to our tools...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/25/2004
Software Factories resources
I am in the process of writing the inaugural edition of the UK architecture newsletter due out in...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/24/2004
Software Factories and Product Lines
Software Factories and Product lines are important concepts in software engineering for improving...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/24/2004
MDA, SOA and Grid: A New Model for Computing
After my blog about grid a couple of days ago I have been putting in a lot more thought about Grid...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/21/2004
Software Factories
Software factories have been around for some time now originating from work done at the SEI....
Author: hdsw Date: 05/20/2004
Modelling and MDA
Cracking article and discussion around Modeling, MDA and the issues of OMG’s implementation on...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/20/2004
Objects, Components, Models and Services
I was in a meeting with a group of architects the other day (should that be a gaggle of architects?...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/17/2004
Hijacking
I don’t know about you but as to the vast majority of my family and friends I “do...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/14/2004
Tech Ed 2004
Tech Ed this year is being touted as much more architecturally focussed than ever before with a...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/27/2004
DSI, MSD and LADP
I'm off to give a presentation on DSI and SDM this afternoon and so have been doing a ton of prep....
Author: hdsw Date: 04/21/2004
Lightweight Architectural Design Process (LADP) Phase 2
This article covers stage 2 of the Lightweight Architectural Design Process; the present system and...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/21/2004
SOA Materials
Posted a taxonomy for SOA information along with links at...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/20/2004
SOA
SOA Vision Definition Strategy High level conceptual architectural view of SOA:...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/20/2004
Whitehorse Webcast
I am busy preparing for my webcast about Visual Studio “Whidbey” - Visual Design and...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/06/2004
Architect Journal
Arvindra has just given me the April copy of the Architects Journal; Journal2. It looks great...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/06/2004
Lightweight Architectural Design Process (LADP) Phase 1
Following on from my blog about LADP I am going to go through each stage of the architectural design...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/06/2004