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The 5th annual Microsoft Architect Insight Conference is now open for registration! This year we’re moving back to the full 2-day, 3-track format of previous years but with the flexibility to choose whether to attend one or both days. Day 1 will...

Here are the slides used by Eoin Woods, Nick Rozanski and Chris Cooper-Bland at the UK IASA meeting the other week!   You can see my thoughts on Anti-Principles here.   Next UK IASA meeting will be from Simon Brown from www.codingthearchitecture...

“When’s a principle not a principle?” was what I muttered to the person next to me at the UK IASA meeting earlier this week. But I think I do “an anti-principle!” About 30 people turned up at the Onalytica offices to enjoy pizza supplied by Microsoft...

Among the great many Christmas presents I received this year was the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell . In it he argues that success is as much about where we’re from and what we do as who we are and that even the genius needs a helping hand. While this...