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  • Have you tried Microformats?

    I have been giving a lot of thought to interoperability lately (I wrote a little bit on it a couple of weeks ago in Trains and Interoperability). As an industry, we spend quite a bit of effort on having dissimilar (and even similar) computer systems communicate with each other in...
  • Social Network Fatigue

    Social network fatigue – n. The ennui induced by persistent solicitations to join new social networks. It is especially acute in those who are already members of more MySpaces than they can remember. (from the Wired Jargon Watch) I have gotten at least a dozen people asking me (via e-mail,...
  • Trains and Interoperability

    Amtrak Train (Southwest Chief) by Bill Ward used under Creative Commons The other day I took the Amtrak Hiawatha into Chicago. I really love taking the train, because I don’t have to fight traffic, find a parking space, it gets me there at a predictable time (usually) and it allows...
  • Architecture By Baseball: Moneyball

    This is the tenth in a series of articles about how we can learn about software architecture by studying and comparing it to the sport of Baseball. This series was inspired by the book Management by Baseball. I started this series off with a discussion of the 5 tool player,...
  • Book Review: Seeing yourself as others do

    I have mentioned the book Seeing Yourself as Others Do to a number of people over the last several weeks. We have been talking a lot about soft skills over the past couple of months at our ArcReady program and I have mentioned it each time I have presented the...

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