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Notes on Enterprise Architecture, Business Alignment, Interesting Trends, and anything else that interests me this week...
Craig McMurty, in his recent posting on Indigo indicates a couple of different scenarios for folks...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 07/25/2005
I was discussing the notion, the other day, that a defect in design may be expensive, but a defect...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 07/21/2005
I suggest that we add temporal foreign keys to relational database design. Programs move data....
Author: Nick Malik Date: 07/16/2005
The marketplace of ideas is an amazing place. When Microsoft came up with the notion of Remote...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 07/08/2005
A friend of mine pointed out an interesting post by Scott Hanselman that used a clever phrase:...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 06/28/2005
We have an easy notion of the data dictionary: a description of the data at rest in a OLTP system....
Author: Nick Malik Date: 06/27/2005
A team member and I found an interesting problem yesterday that I thought I'd share. We found the...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 06/21/2005
Adding only management to a flawed software development process makes it worse.
Author: Nick Malik Date: 06/08/2005
I was having a discussion the other day about the reasons for using SOA. If the liklihood of defects...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 06/04/2005
I was reminded recently of the fact that long running transactions, especially those involving...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 06/02/2005
I'm specifically looking for feedback on a workflow component I am working on. We have implemented a...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 05/05/2005
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about an experience I had that allowed me to directly compare...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 04/30/2005
Many different products claim to be effective for Enterprise Application Integration. There's about...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 04/14/2005
I'm seeing the difference more clearly than before: how a team can use Feature Driven Development...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 04/13/2005
Reader ROI Readers of this post will find a "case study" that allowed this author to directly...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 04/10/2005
A refers to B, B refers to A, Why can't we all just get along? Every now and again, I see a posting...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 03/18/2005
It's been ages sinces I've blogged on workflow. I've been wildly busy implementing a workflow engine...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 03/12/2005
I run across this question from time to time: why is there no multiple inheritance in C# like there...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 12/31/2004
After showing a workflow diagram to a co-worker, he asked me if I could tell him how this is any...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 12/28/2004
XML is an interesting language, but is it a useful one for describing a process? We have multiple...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 12/27/2004
Every now and again, I get a question that I've seen many times before. I saw this one recently and...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 12/26/2004
Back when the MVP program first started, I was a developer at American Express. I was writing code...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 12/21/2004
Do you understand what encapsulation means, but don't know why in the world you would want to use...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 12/21/2004
One common complaint about the .NET framework is that there is only one config file for the...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 11/25/2004
I identified, in an earlier post, that I believe that there are three levels of abstraction in...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 11/16/2004
Abstract: What happens when a business transaction, in Service Oriented Architecture, is too big to...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 11/01/2004
Abstract: This article provides a counterpoint to Pat Helland's most recent article by describing...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 10/25/2004
Is SOA really useful for database replication? Yes and no. This posting will discuss a dilemna that...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 10/21/2004
Wrote an article a few days back and posted it here:...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 10/21/2004
The Tyranny of Waterfall in RFPs When I was in consulting, we would routinely bid on RFP (Requests...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 10/16/2004
I have been following the progress of Dr. Wil van der Aalst in his efforts to create a patterns...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 10/15/2004
I did something foolish recently... I criticized someone for an analysis diagram that, I felt,...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 10/05/2004
I like the term "foundational technology". It sounds so much cooler than it is. I have no idea if...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 09/27/2004
YAWL - Yet Another Workflow Language I suppose the name would be funny, if the idea for the name...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 09/24/2004
A few days ago, I blogged about the three layers of abstraction for workflow items. Now, I'm going...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 09/20/2004
Using workflow systems can be interesting. Everyone has a good idea of how to solve the "workflow...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 09/16/2004
I've been thinking about the levels of abstraction that Martin Fowler defines in software...
Author: Nick Malik Date: 09/14/2004