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Archives for January, 2009


You’ll all be doing SOA in 18 months

by Nick Gall  |  January 30, 2009  |  3 Comments

My keynote at the Microsoft SOA and BP conference has generated a bit of press, including this excellent summary by Darryl Taft ("Gartner: How to Unify Your SOA Roll-Out") and this take on a quote from that article by Joe McKendrick ("Analyst: ‘you’ll all be doing SOA in 18 months whether you plan to or [...]

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A great article on modeling risk

by Nick Gall  |  January 28, 2009  |  2 Comments

I finally got around to reading Risk Management in the New York Times Magazine. It is one of the best articles on Wall Street Modeling Risk How people game models How all models eventually fail that I have ever read. It is must reading. All risk management systems, all (complex) models for that matter, are [...]

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Would you drop 10 friends for a hamburger?

by Nick Gall  |  January 21, 2009  |  2 Comments

Has social software really led us to this? According to the NY Times Bits blog, nearly 234,000 facebookers were defriended by their so-called friends looking to score a free hamburger. Burger King ran a promotion on Facebook that gave someone a coupon for a free hamburger if they would drop 10 friends. Harsh but hilarious. [...]

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SUPERUSELESS SUPERPOWERS

by Nick Gall  |  January 21, 2009  |  4 Comments

Just had to share a hilarious comic blog I just came across: SUPERUSELESS SUPERPOWERS. Here’s a sample that had me laughing so hard I cried: Here’s the description: SUPERUSELESS SUPERPOWER: In-flight flight Being able to soar through the air still won’t save you from recycled oxygen and endless stories from complete strangers. Known as the [...]

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Will knowing my carbon footprint change my travel preferences?

by Nick Gall  |  January 18, 2009  |  2 Comments

I was surprised, I might even say astonished, to see that Gartner’s travel booking service (is it SaaS or just ASP?) Cliqbook is now listing the carbon footprint of each flight option it offers. Here is a screen shot: Will this change my flying behavior? I doubt it; at least for the foreseeable future. My [...]

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How to move conversations from email to blogs…

by Nick Gall  |  January 15, 2009  |  9 Comments

A colleague of mine was bemoaning the fact that despite the fact he had blogged on a particular topic, an internal Gartner email thread sprung up on the same topic instead of in the comments on his post. This despite the fact that he sent an email to the thread mentioning the post. But all [...]

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Great set of resources on scalability and other -ility issues

by Nick Gall  |  January 14, 2009  |  Comments Off

Recommended: http://blog.maxindelicato.com/2009/01/17-distributed-systems-and-web-scalability-resources.html

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We Have the Charts And Graphs to Back This Up…

by Nick Gall  |  January 14, 2009  |  2 Comments

Absolutely hilarious, and essential to any enterprise architect who wants to put naysayers in their place from the get go. Warning –Use of the f’bomb: http://www.stickergiant.com/Charts-and-Graphs_d49.html

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Long Live the Web

by Nick Gall  |  January 6, 2009  |  1 Comment

Anne Thomas Manes has started the new year of with a bang by declaring: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services. While I agree with many of the sentiments behind Anne’s declarations that “SOA is dead”, I disagree with her way forward: “long live services”. It is services thinking, as conventionally understood, that led to the [...]

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