Date:Thursday Sep 17, 2009

John Zachman, father of Enterprise Architecture, to present at the next BCS Enterprise Architecture Speciality Group event on Tuesday the 6th of October, 2009 • Wow!- The BCS Enterprise Architecture Speciality Group has secured John Zachman, the de facto father of Enterprise Architecture, and creator of the "Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture" (ZFEA), to speak at it's next event on Tuesday the 6th of October: Talk about a major coup. • ..... View Comments

Date:Wednesday Sep 16, 2009

Support Birmingham to host the FIFA 2018 World Cup • Got this via email and wanted to pass it on in it's entirety, so here it is, personally I think you should just go to http://www.england2018bid.com/support/register.aspx and vote for Birmingham to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. • ..... View Comments

Date:Saturday Sep 12, 2009

St. Mary and St. Margaret's Church

St. Mary and St. Margaret's Church Heritage Weekend and Fundraising Launch • Tomorrow, on Saturday the 12th, the local Parish Church, Saint Mary and Saint Margaret's, will be holding a 'Heritage weekend' and fund raising launch for the new 'community church room' that is planned to be built into the church. • ..... View Comments

BCS Birmingham Branch Committee Summer Barbecue • Last Sunday I hosted a barbecue for the Committee of the BCS Birmingham Branch and thought I'd share a few of the photo's that we took with you. • ..... View Comments

Date:Wednesday Sep 09, 2009

The problem with automated provisioning (III of III)The problem with automated provisioning (III of III) The problem with automated provisioning (III of III) • The third of my articles on the macro-level issues with (automated) provisioning, which build on the previous articles, specifically the comparison of Enterprise versus "web scale" deployments described in " The problem with automated provisioning (II of III) " and the levels of complexity, in terms. • ..... View Comments

UK innovation ranking compared to the rest of the World - why do we get so little 'bang' for our 'buck'? • Back on my topic of concerns about the UK economy this article looks something which I find highly problematic, that is the UK's spending on research and development (R&D), against world wide spend, and then measured against world wide innovation 'league tables'. • ..... View Comments

Date:Wednesday Sep 02, 2009

September 2009 blog catch up • Apologies to all my blog readers I've been lax of late and haven't posted a great deal recently, and I'm afraid that in an attempt to clear down all the draft blog entries I have prior to the transition and acquisition (of Sun by Oracle, of course) I'll be posting a number of blog entries in quick. • ..... View Comments

Date:Thursday Aug 27, 2009

links for 2009-08-26 • Incompetence a bigger IT security threat than malign insiders • The Register • Human error still the most prolific problem in IT provision, not purely security, which this report focuses upon. • ..... View Comments

Date:Wednesday Aug 26, 2009

links for 2009-08-26 • Incompetence a bigger IT security threat than malign insiders • The Register • Human error still the most prolific problem in IT provision, not purely security, which this report focuses upon. • ..... View Comments

Date:Wednesday Aug 19, 2009

links for 2009-08-19 • Ads body cuts off Skype ad after pic quality complaints • The Register • In a minor triumph for common sense Skype has been slapped down by the UK's ad regulator for running a TV ad which showed video and sound quality in excess of what viewers believed the VoiP service could. • ..... View Comments

Date:Monday Aug 17, 2009

links for 2009-08-17 • I'm a Photographer, not a Terrorist - Care about civil liberties in the UK? • ..... View Comments

Date:Friday Jul 31, 2009

The problem with automated provisioning (II of III)The problem with automated provisioning (II of III) The problem with automated provisioning (II of III) • The second of my articles on the macro-level issues with (automated) provisioning and focusing again on the theme of complexity as a result of "No. • ..... View Comments

Date:Thursday Jul 30, 2009

links for 2009-07-30 • Why Is Obama’s Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google? • ..... View Comments

Date:Tuesday Jul 28, 2009

links for 2009-07-28 • Gartner Highlights Five Attributes of Cloud Computing - The five attributes of cloud computing according to Gartner are (1) Service-Based, (2) Scalable and Elastic, (3) Shared, (4) Metered by Use, and (5) Uses Internet Technologies. • ..... View Comments

The problem with automated provisioning (I of III)

The problem with automated provisioning (I of III) • Referring back to my previous article " The problem with automated provisioning - an introduction " once you get over these too human of issues into the 'technical' problem of provisioning then I'd have been much nearer the mark in my initial assessment, because it is indeed an issue of complexity. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

Date:Sunday Jul 26, 2009

The problem with automated provisioning - an introduction • I was going to start this short series of articles with the statement that the problem with provisioning is one of complexity, and I'd have been wrong, the predominant issues with provisioning, and specifically automated provisioning, are awareness and expectation. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

Date:Thursday Jul 23, 2009

Disqus and Twitter integration to get even more improvements • You'd imagine Twitter integration in Disqus couldn't get any better, however speaking with Daniel Ha at Disqus I hear even more improvements are on the way. • ..... View Comments

Date:Wednesday Jul 22, 2009

Jakob Nielsen: "Mobile User Experience is Miserable" • Latest research into mobile web user experience says that overall the experience is "miserable", and cites the major issues with Mobile web usages, as well as looking at overall "success" rates which, although improved from results of research in the mid-1990's are much lower than typical PC and. • ..... View Comments

Bill Vass' top reasons to use Open Source software • You might not have seen Bill Vass' blog article series on the topic of the top reasons to use and adopt Open Source software; and as it's such an insightful series of articles I thought I'd bring it to your attention here. • ..... View Comments

Date:Tuesday Jul 21, 2009

The Reasons Projects and Programmes Fail • In this post I'll be describing the five categories that I've identified of reasons that Projects and Programmes Fail, this categorisation has been built up from doing a large number of system, project and programme reviews and audits over the years, and this article follows on from the project. • ..... View Comments

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