Wayne Horkan's weblog: eclectic

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

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Date / Time: / 01:33 GMT

Category: Tech

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

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Date:Saturday Sep 12, 2009

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

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Date / Time: / 03:26 GMT

Category: Life

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

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Date / Time: / 03:25 GMT

Category: Blog

Date:Wednesday Sep 09, 2009

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

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Date / Time: / 03:21 GMT

Category: Tech

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

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Date / Time: / 01:13 GMT

Category: Life

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