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Rob Vens Executive management doesn’t have a clue. Everybody I talk to in organisations large and small agree. And I am talking managers here. They try. They do their best. They start doubting their intelligence. They install control mechanisms. They install more control mechanisms. Heck, they might even try (and burn their fingers on) business intelligence. Maybe […]
Three years ago Smalltalkers were somewhat worried about the drop-out from the TIOBE index of Smalltalk. http://bpieber.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/bad-news-smalltalk-falls-off-top-50-of-tiobe-index/ However this years’ index show Smalltalk is back at a reasonable 37th place. From the ranking it is not clear what the move is, and I was unable to find the TIOBE index of last year to compare […]
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Beyond ICT: Embracing the Next Digital Revolution (via PR Newswire) SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The history of human social development is, to some extent, the history of human scientific and technological progress. Humanity achieves scientific and technological progress by pushing its physical and mental limits and breaking away from the restrictions…
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[amazon_image id=”3642055664″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Handbook on Enterprise Architecture (International Handbooks on Information Systems)[/amazon_image] Some time ago I read this book on Enterprise Architecture, which is a compilation of various chapters about the GERAM framework for Enterprise Architecture. Now, while very extensive it seems that GERAM is dead. The last publications on the standard date […]
Het bericht Togaf and GERAM verscheen eerst op Rob Vens.
The Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession (CAEAP) has created something that on first sight seems like a very good idea: the Enterprise Architect Professional Oath. The oath itself is one of eight what they call “pillars” of the profession, though from the website it is not yet entirely clear what the […]
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The satellite model is an alternative representation of complex architectures that is propagated by me as a more helpful metaphor than layered models or complex graphs. It helps because it centres on the centre: the business or company domain. The model re-appears in many articles on my site, and in some representations by other authors: […]
Het bericht The satellite model verscheen eerst op Rob Vens.
Scrum for architects: how scrum helps architects to create and sustain an enterprise-wide architecture process. Slowly we are learning how to use the simple format of short standup sessions, called scrum, to help teams in sustaining impetus. A scrum session typically lasts only 10 minutes, with the participants standing. Discussions, opinions, or other ego-vehicles are […]
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Alan Kay, in his keynote speech on Oopsla 1997 talked about the primary need for software development to deal with scalability. We develop tools for making models (and software) that are very suitable to build dog houses. The misconception is that building larger structures (scaling up) entails nothing more than scaling up the dog house […]
Het bericht Scalability verscheen eerst op Rob Vens.
I maintain a page with clippings from Smalltalk-related postings on the web deemed interesting by me for the Smalltalk community (called “curation”). This page is actively updated. Check it out at http://smalltalks.robvens.com
Het bericht Smalltalks: “Things happening with and around the programming paradigm Smalltalk” verscheen eerst op Rob Vens.
Technorati seems to be shifting to the background as a blog directory and tag searcher. I used to see the technorati buttons on most sites, but now they seem to have disappeared. I did as much, on my site you can currently see the Twitter, Facebook and…
How do you create a deployment process that automatically creates packages to deliver to your users for all supported platforms with a little fuss as possible? This article tries to provide a concise guide for standalone VisualWorks application developers. If you, like me, are building standalone apps that need to deploy on all supported platforms, you will encounter some interesting challenges. I have reached a strategy that works reasonably well, and I would like to share that strategy, hopefully benefiting others.
Het bericht Deploying VisualWorks Applications verscheen eerst op Rob Vens.