Marc: My Words : Architecture

The Arc

maholmes — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:53:24 GMT

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...(read more)

Application Architecture Pocket Guides

maholmes — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)

OreDev Presentation: Software + Services

maholmes — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:34:12 GMT

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...(read more)

Modeling through the Ages – and Oslo

maholmes — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:24:59 GMT

Spotted on Jon Fanders ’ blog, a look at the very first model driven architectures through to the present day . More at Models Remixed .osl...(read more)

Happiness is a weekend messing about with a LAN at home

maholmes — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:47:27 GMT

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...(read more)

National Rail Enquiries Concept

maholmes — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:02:10 GMT

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 ....(read more)

Silverlight vFuture to support H.264 and AAC

maholmes — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:53:42 GMT

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,...(read more)

MicroQuest – Making The Unit Move

maholmes — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:13:15 GMT

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...(read more)

Aggregation Aggravation

maholmes — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:59:54 GMT

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...(read more)

MicroQuest - A WPF GameWorld

maholmes — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:10:19 GMT

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...(read more)

Video Players

maholmes — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:06:29 GMT

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...(read more)

MicroQuest – AStar Pathfinding

maholmes — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:22:13 GMT

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...(read more)

Embarking on a MicroQuest

maholmes — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:27:30 GMT

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...(read more)

RSS Aggregation as an illustration of Software & Services

maholmes — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:53:53 GMT

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....(read more)

Social Networking and Lensed/Faceted Browsing

maholmes — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:17:54 GMT

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...(read more)