You want my what?

The scene opens with our Mild-Mannered Enterprise Architect (MMEA) using an online store to rent some photography equipment. It seems our MMEA fancies himself as an unpaid professional photographer and has been pressed into a photo shoot for a good…

You want my what?

The scene opens with our Mild-Mannered Enterprise Architect (MMEA) using an online store to rent some photography equipment. It seems our MMEA fancies himself as an unpaid professional photographer and has been pressed into a photo shoot for a good…

And the Winner Is…

I don’t know. Seriously. Our contract with Forrester Research affords me the opportunity to be one of five judges in their annual contest to award prizes to organizations for their Enterprise Architecture Program.

The Forrester / InfoWorld Ente…

Where do you put the Ugly?

As a programmer I found that the realities of deadlines and costs resulted in one unassailable truth; every program had some ugly code, and that code had to go somewhere. Sometimes this meant a special “Utility” class, or a “Worker” object….

Landscaping and Loose Coupling

A few years back, my wife and I bought a shiny new home. The house was almost brand new and the previous occupant had traded a goodly portion of their kid’s future inheritance to a landscaper for a collection of shrubs, trees, and mulch large eno…

Landscaping and Loose Coupling

A few years back, my wife and I bought a shiny new home. The house was almost brand new and the previous occupant had traded a goodly portion of their kid’s future inheritance to a landscaper for a collection of shrubs, trees, and mulch large eno…