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Friday, March 20, 2009 10:53 AM
The Arc
You may have already discovered Arc magazine (it’s a series of 4) which aims to describe Software + Services for Architects, but if not, you should know that apart from the physical copies, you can get the digital versions from our Architect Portal
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:05 AM
Application Architecture Pocket Guides
From J.D. Meier’s blog , the Patterns & Practices team have released a bunch of pocket guides – smaller and more focussed – based on the Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Here’s the initial list: Agile Architecture Method Pocket Guide Web Application
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:34 PM
OreDev Presentation: Software + Services
Today, myself and Blooders presented on Software + Services on the Architecture track at OreDev (as previously mentioned). Our intention was to provoke some thought on the pressures on architects, and the drivers for Software + Services, and help architects
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:24 AM
Modeling through the Ages – and Oslo
Spotted on Jon Fanders ’ blog, a look at the very first model driven architectures through to the present day . More at Models Remixed .osl
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Monday, November 10, 2008 3:47 PM
Happiness is a weekend messing about with a LAN at home
Well, I expect it is to many people. I’m one of those people who, so long as the ADSL is running, treats all of the cables, routers and stuff as one would an ancient monument: “Look, don’t touch. It’s very special” But, I’ve become more concerned recently
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 7:02 PM
National Rail Enquiries Concept
Mark B has also just finished some prototyping work recently but is also able to give some details on what he’s been up to here . I saw the applicaton just after it was finished and it was a smart, practical use of both Virtual Earth and Silverlight .
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:53 AM
Silverlight vFuture to support H.264 and AAC
Given I work in the media space, I should probably be among the first to blog about such things, but of course I never am. This is some of the big news for IBC . This is a pretty big deal though and represents choice for anyone utilising Silverlight,
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:13 AM
MicroQuest – Making The Unit Move
In this exciting instalment of MicroQuest activity, we're finally going to do something useful and make the Unit move around on the map, using the pathfinding code from a while ago. We need to get our coding fingers on a little this time. The interaction
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:59 PM
Aggregation Aggravation
As I was upgrading my blog I was looking at the release notes around support for APML ( you can see my APML here ). I feel the need to subscribe to many blogs to keep myself abreast of developments across the varying industries and technologies I look
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:10 AM
MicroQuest - A WPF GameWorld
In the last post, I cobbled together something that was serviceable as a pathfinding routine, and was left with the beginnings of some structures - such as Location and Unit - that would be needed in MicroQuest. In this post, we'll look at building the
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Monday, June 30, 2008 1:06 PM
Video Players
The new BBC iPlayer Beta has impressed me. Not so much because it changes the general iPlayer experience in terms of play out, but simply because of the approach to releasing the software. The new additions of recommendations, last played and the consolidation
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:22 PM
MicroQuest – AStar Pathfinding
The first thing I want to be able to do in MicroQuest is move my "unit" around the "game world". So I need to establish a mechanism for the movement of the unit. Given this is a tile based game then it seems obvious that my unit can
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:27 AM
Embarking on a MicroQuest
In a previous post I talked about inspiration and decided that I'd spend more time 'just coding' . This series of posts on 'MicroQuest' will be about my adventures doing just that. It’s sort of a vague attempt to copy from the master ( Andrew Braybrook
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Friday, July 13, 2007 6:53 AM
RSS Aggregation as an illustration of Software & Services
This is probably more of a rant than an 'interesting architectural piece' but anyway... I typically use JetBrains Omea Reader for my blog reading as it has a whole bunch of features for categorisation, annotation, and workspace separation that are appealing.
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Monday, July 09, 2007 6:17 AM
Social Networking and Lensed/Faceted Browsing
So Facebook has undoubtedly raised the bar in terms of social networking capability and expectation, and I imagine that LinkedIn and MySpace are now considering how to respond to the (perceived) explosion in growth in Facebook users (and therefore the
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