I’m running a session on software design principles with Chris Cooper-Bland and Nick Rozanski at the UK IASA chapter meeting in London on 12th January. Thanks to Matt Deacon for the invitation. Details are on Matt Deacon’s blog: http://tinyurl.com/ycdm5u7 Registration is via Event Brite: http://ukiasadp.eventbrite.com/
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My early 2006 iMac gave up the ghost a few days before Christmas and refused to respond at all to being switched on, so it was clear that something pretty terminal must be wrong with it and I replaced it with a new aluminium iMac. (As an aside, this went much more smoothly than expected…
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I was recently browsing through some archived files from a job long ago and discovered that I couldn’t open the PowerPoint files. This surprised me because I thought that MS Office was able to open files from any previous version, but it appears not. Digging further, I found that the files in question were in…
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An article that Andy Longshaw and I wrote a couple of years ago on exception handling patterns has now been published by the ACCU in their Overload magazine, so the article is now available in a much more accessible form than before (first part here, second part here).
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Unfortunately an immovable work commitment has just emerged that means I won’t be able to be at JAOO 2009, which is a real shame.
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I’ve been fortunate enough to have a talk selected again this year for Bearpark Publishing’s excellent Software Architect 2009 conference. This year the conference is at the Royal College of Physicians in Regent’s Park, London and it’s running from 29th September to 1st October. I’ll be giving my talk on the “Top 10 Software Architecture Mistakes”…
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The WICSA 2009 early bird registration prices are only available until August 15th, so if you’re planning to come to the conference, now is a good time to register! Hope to see you there. Also we now have a great group of sponsors but if your organisation is interested in sponsoring the event and reaching…
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Recently I decided that I really should be tracking my finances using a dedicated package, as I’ve been using online banking and Excel to do this for quite a while and it seems like there must be a better way. I use Macs at home for most jobs and so I decided to find a…
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After what seems like an age of planning and preparation, the WICSA 2009 conference is finally approaching. The event will be held in Cambridge (in the UK) in September, from Monday 14th to Thursday 17th, at Robinson College (which apparently is one of the new ones, so quite comfortable!) WICSA is the only specialist software…
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Along with my co-presenters, Nick Rozanski and Andy Longshaw, I’ll be re-running a shortened version of our Design Principles – Mining Pattern DNA session at miniSPA this week on 15th July. The miniSPA conference is a one day “taster” event to let people see why the main SPA Conference is such a great event for…
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