Michael Platt's WebLog
Computer Engineering
WAX
I attended Wax, the UK version of Spark and very interesting it was too. I had to leave early to...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/11/2006
Real life Web 2.0 in the Enterprise
Well the ongoing discussion about web 2.0 and SOA has been fun but all rather academic. Whilst I...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/08/2006
Spark Unplugged
I have been working on a publication to wrap up Spark called "Spark Unplugged" which pulls together...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/05/2006
Microsoft Live
I think this is a really excellent article:...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/27/2006
Web 2.0 in the Army
Who says that there is no place for Web 2.0 in the enterprise? Here is a great example from the US...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/21/2006
Enterprise 2.0
In the last week there has been a ton of discussion around the take up of Web 2.0 techniques in the...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/21/2006
IBM on Architecture
What is a software architecture?...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/17/2006
Luke on Spark
Luke Kowalski has blogged about his spark experience here:...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/12/2006
More Spark Blogging
There have been a number of very interesting blogs come out recently as part of the Spark follow-up....
Author: hdsw Date: 04/05/2006
IT's Perfect Storm
I was sat in the office this afternoon talking about the changes in business and monetization, the...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/04/2006
New types of Databases
Back in 1988 I was working with a brand new Oracle 8 database building a billing application for a...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/04/2006
Users and Organisations at Spark
One model that was put up at Spark was Jeff Schneider's which tied together users and organizations...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/29/2006
Dion Hinchcliffe at Spark
Here is a podcast of Dion at Spark
Author: hdsw Date: 03/29/2006
User Centricity: A Spark Theme
The main theme from Spark was putting the user (both inside and outside the organization) first....
Author: hdsw Date: 03/29/2006
Trust, Control and Emergence at Spark
Another topic that Nick talked about at Spark was the relationship between Trust and Centralisation,...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/29/2006
SOA and WOA at Spark
So I just got the materials back from Spark and was going through them to make sure I had captured...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/29/2006
What is an Architect?
Arrgh, yet again I have been drawn into the "what is an architect" discussion! I knew it was a...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/29/2006
Do Architects Design?
Of course they do!! Craig blogged about my architecture definition and said that my definition...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/29/2006
My outing as a Stateful Restafarian
Following on from my post about being a Restafarian yesterday I thought this was amusing:...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/29/2006
WS-Harmonsation
Someone told me about this at Spark but it has taken me this long to find the docs:...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/28/2006
Occam and Ontologies: Semwebs
This rather sums up my opinion of semwebs: The principle of parsimony might better have been called...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/28/2006
What is Architecture: a Definition
I have to write an overview on "What is architecture" for an upcoming website that we are working on...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/27/2006
Web 2.0 and the Live Web: Newsweek
Interesting Newsweek lead article. I am on record as hating Web 2.0 as a term but really like the...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/27/2006
Web 2.0 in the Enterprise Architecture World
I have been following some of the discussion (!) about Ruby on Rails in the Enterprise on...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/26/2006
Gartner on SOA and Web 2.0
https://www.optimizemag.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=180207087 To Quote: Implemention...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/26/2006
Archcasts at Spark
Ron did a great job of generating some interesting archcasts at Spark. Here is the first of them...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/23/2006
Spark @ Mix slide decks
Phil has posted the Spark at Mix slide decks for me at: https://www.looselycoupled.com/ev/Spark.ppt...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/23/2006
Zapthink on Web 2.0 and SOA
Interesting article from Zapthink about Web 2.0 and SOA, or as they call it Mashups and SOBA's. The...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/22/2006
Blogs about Spark
Blogs about spark so far: Dare Obesanjo's My Website is Bigger Than Your Enterprise Richard Veryard:...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/21/2006
Spark @ Mix
Anne Thomas Manes, Dion Hinchcliffe and myself presented the output from Spark at Mix to a small but...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/21/2006
Spark Las Vegas day 2
In the second day of Spark Las Vegas we focused on models in the morning and came up with four...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/21/2006
Day One at Spark Las Vegas
Well the end of day one of Spark, the first half day anyway. Its great to meet up with a bunch of...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/19/2006
Pre Spark Thoughts
So I am down in Las Vegas in preparation for Spark this weekend and Mix next week. I am very excited...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/17/2006
Web 2.0 Definition and Hype
I do get very fed up with the Web 2.0 hype and also all the people who complain about the Web 2.0...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/16/2006
10
I had a brief chat with Jeff Sandquist about a month ago in the hall where he told me about 10,...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/15/2006
Meta Data
Following on from Ray Ossies excellent cut and paste demo at Etech last week I have been thinking...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/14/2006