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- Is SOA 'Snake Oil Architecture'?
- Grady Booch, IBMs resident software architecture guru, warns that the market is being overrun by what he calls "Snake Oil-oriented Architecture." In a recent post, he reaffirms that he believes SOA will deliver value to organizations, but that Snake Oil-oriented Architecture "showmen" are selling too much of the sizzle,...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- Inch by inch it's a cinch; mile by mile it's a trial
- In a recent commentary, Grady Booch, an IBM Fellow and software architect's architect, says the failure of the FBI's multi-million-dollar Virtual Case File project provides a lesson that extends to all big-budget projects. The issue is that such projects try to do too much in one big bang. This should...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Grady Booch, SOA, Web service, Web
- Blog posts 2005-01-19
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- Edraw UML Diagram (exe)
- EDraw is a new UML diagram and software diagram drawing tool for software engineers and designers. Easy to draw uml model diagram, COM and OLE, data flow model diagram, Jacobson Use Case, SSADM Diagram, Nassi-Schneiderman diagrams, Booch OOD diagrams, ROOM Diagram, Yourdon and Coad diagrams and Shlaer-Mellor OOA diagrams, program...
- Tags: EDrawSoft, EDraw, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-09-24
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Archiect?
- What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Archiect?irrelevantFor all the harping about the code license, there have been virtually no, esp. on purpose, issues arise to harm a company or individual from Microsoft's code licensing. It is safer overall than GPL licensed code. The problem with Linux open...
- Tags: Research & Development, Operating systems, software, Booch, copyright-holder, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, developer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Architect?
- Microsoft has been orchestrating carefully for the past few years the transition of Bill Gates from Chief Software Architect CSA and regular participant in product planning meetings, to "mere" Chairman. (Gates' actual "last day" is June 30.) But it turns out Microsoft may have been planning this...
- Tags: Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Burden of uninsured now closing non-profit hospitals
- In all the flurry and fury concerning Grady Hospital in Atlanta the threat of its closing, while real, has seldom been taken seriously. Grady recently appointed a non-profit board to stave off bankruptcy. The hope is that charitable fundraising and a small statewide car tag tax will save the state's only...
- Tags: Hospital, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- The+Grady+tragedy+and+what+it+means
- The+Grady+tragedy+and+what+it+meansSympathy?Not from me. I work in a state-funded mental health facility....you know, mental health? The bane of politician’s (and insurer’s) existence..... Our facility is closing because the state wants out of the business. Care is to be "privatized" (read: the patients will be commoditized) and our...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- The Grady tragedy and what it means
- While candidates are fretting about the plight of the middle class in health care, the safety net of the poor is unraveling. For decades that net consisted of a string of public "charity" hospitals in major cities around the country, funded by local taxpayers. Many doubled as...
- Tags: Hospital, Trauma, Charity Hospital, Healthcare, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Must Grady close to win health care reform?
- Must Grady close to win health care reform?The Real CrisisThe crisis we face is more menacing than health care: becoming a people that values stability/security over freedom. More and more people sound like Ellsworth Toohey in The Fountainhead -- we can only be truly free when we sacrifice all...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Monitors & displays, TVs, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- Must Grady close to win health care reform?
- A column in the New England Journal of Medicine today notes there are not two health care systems in the U.S., but three. The teetering, tottering "safety net" of "public and voluntary hospitals, community health centers, public health clinics, free clinics, and services donated by private physicians"...
- Tags: Hospital, Health Care, Grady Memorial, Comedy, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- The day my iPhone touch screen died
- The day my iPhone touch screen diedParts is Parts[url=http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/10/analyst-apple-iphone-screen-problems-may-get-worse-the-dreaded-dead-strip.html]FYI[/url]The linked article speaks for itself.Touch Screen Gotcha. It can be argued......whether touch screens are great technology advancement.But, when it comes to failure, well you are dead in the water. I've had a couple of issues with my Nokia N95...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, touch screen, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Store
- Discussion threads 2007-12-24
- Software morality
- Software moralitythat dependquote(Economics implies a kind of social compact, and you can’t just impose the necessary restrictions from the center, as totalitarianism isn’t usually conducive to vibrant economies.)but you could inforce morality and good manner by revoking the business permit by forcing tthe acquisition of one you could penalize...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, morality, Booch, technologist
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- Software morality
- Charles Cooper recently interviewed Grady Booch, one of the developers of the Unified Modeling Language UML, on the subject of software morality. Mr. Booch, in short, defended the application of moral principles to software development as a means by which to curtail the more negative uses of software (among other...
- Tags: Software, Economics, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Debating the morality behind software development
- Debating the morality behind software developmentWell, that's where themorality issue somes up. While one person may find it morally objectionable to do a thing, eventually someone else will probably do it. So for that one person, he has made a choice based on his ethical beliefs. So...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, nuclear energy, software, software development
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
- News to know: Microsoft Live Search; Google 2.0; Newton's return?
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Five take aways on Microsoft's new Live Search. Gallery right. Microsoft's new search guru talks strategy. Larry Dignan: Pondering Google 2.0: How will it get to $100 billion in revenue? Microsoft, Google square off in Washington....
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Live Search, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Review: Apple's new keyboards (Verdict: Atrocious)
- Review: Apple's new keyboards (Verdict: Atrocious)Whooah there... "tactile feedback"?[i]"...Flat keys don’t provide enough tactile feedback as to where you are the key contributing to errors."[/i]I thought tactile feedback was a thing of the past, now that the iPhone doesn't have keys?C'mon Apple fans, does tactile feedback matter or not?Someone at...
- Tags: Keyboards, NEXT BEST, keyboard, new keyboard, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Today's Debate: IT leadership coming from the wrong place?
- Government Health IT says leadership for computing in most hospitals is coming from the emergency room.This may be precisely the wrong place for it to come from if you want support from the top. Emergency rooms are big money losers and many administrators have stopped bailing them outIn DeKalb County,...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, Government Health IT, hospital, Grady Hospital, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Steve's mea culpa: $100 credit to iPhone pioneers
- Steve's mea culpa: $100 credit to iPhone pioneersfamous last words....“If they bought iPhone a month ago, well, that’s what happens in technology.” - Steve Jobs to USA Today."If they wound up with a million unsold units at end of year, well, that's what happens in technology," - Steve Jobs' prospective...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., phone, marketing, Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Apply object-oriented analysis and design to the problem of software complexity
- Failure to master the complexity of software often results in projects that are late, over budget, and deficient in their stated requirements. In this sample chapter from Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, 3rd Edition, examine the case for using object-oriented analysis and design to master the complexity associated...
- Tags: Software, Object-oriented Analysis, Object-oriented, Addison-Wesley, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-04-26
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