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  • Why people like open source

    Open Source Water by schoschie used under Creative Commons A couple of weeks ago at the Codeapalooza event in Chicago I spent some time in and out of the Open Spaces area. I think that it is really cool that open spaces has even made its way into traditional track...
  • Finding Inspiration

    This is the first in a series of articles on a programming project that I am working on. I thought it would be interesting to share some of the aspects of the project as I go along. Some of the articles will be technical in nature and some of them...
  • Book Review: Building Scalable Web Sites

    In May-July of this year I did a talk on Building Scalable and Usable Web Applications in Indianapolis, Downers Grove, Milwaukee, Chicago and Appleton for our ArcReady series that we run in about 18 cities in the Central United States. One of the items I mentioned as a good reference...
  • Architecture by Baseball: Stats

    This is the seventh 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 don’t think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in...
  • Software Architecture Certifications

    I attended the third meeting of the Chicago Architects Group (event web site – the official web site is coming soon) in downtown Chicago on Thursday the 21st. The CAG is a community based group that is focused on the discipline of software architecture (all facets of it: solutions architecture,...

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