Archive for June, 2010
Sander’s talk at TechEd US 2010. How frameworks can kill your projects and patterns to prevent getting killed
By shoogend at 20 June, 2010, 12:48 pm
Last week, the Microsoft TechEd North America 2010 took place in the great city of New Orleans. I was lucky to be invited to do a talk on how frameworks can kill your projects. When it comes to Microsoft .NET-connected development, more and more frameworks enter the market. Both from Microsoft and from open source. [...]
Read More >>Horrible web design (I) – HP Help Form
By shoogend at 17 June, 2010, 10:49 pm
Every now and then you see really horrible examples of software development. While I was try to scan a document using my printer/scanner, the software by HP failed miserable. Being the nice customer I am, when HP invited me to fill in an enquiry about the quality of their service. The form presented to fill [...]
Read More >>PowerPoint Architecture
By shoogend at 8 June, 2010, 6:00 pm
It’s a mildly sunny April morning in 2002 when I park my car outside of a huge government agency office in a small suburban city near Utrecht. I am invited for a brainstorm session with the agency’s enterprise architects. Although I do not consider myself an enterprise architect, and explained that upfront, they were eager [...]
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