MDA, so who is doing it?

I have been using MDA (model driven architecture) for a whole now, well I have been using more model driven software development than MDA. However it has to be said that I stop before the actual generation of code. Why? You might say, why go all the way to MDSD without actually wanting building the code... The answer to be honest is that I have been using development partners to do the code development and this takes away one of the key mdsd benefits around the production of a domain specific language. That said to be able to give a model to a Dev partner and ask them to build against it is a powerful thing. The next challenge is assurance!

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Matt

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Apple behind the curve....

As a bit of a Mac and apple fan I can say that I am a bit surprised by the lack of web 2.0 tools in the mobile me offering. Yes, yes I do have a .me account (have had a .Mac one for a while now) and it would be nice to be able to Blog off it. I am sure I could build something, but what is the point when there are specialist tools that do it for me?!?

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Matt

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Form IM to Email

The emails that I send are very different from the IMs I send. So when saw someone pasted an I'm conversation into an email it took me aback a little. Will this sort of behaviour change the way that people interact over IM? When I send an email I always consider the consequences of it being forwarded on... However in a more real time conversation over IM this rationalisation of thought does not happen to the same degree...

Perhaps I am being to paranoid (or perhaps hard experience) especially as I read a lot of emails sent by other people that have danger will Robinson written all over them) and should embrace the send what you want type emails and hang the consequences...?

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Matt

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The Social Enterprise

I will open with a question.... Has anyone seen a social enterprise using enterprise 2.0? Personally I have seen a number of attempts but nothing successful. I must admit that when I am talking about an enterprise I am talking about tens of thousands of employees. Whenever I have seen a social network started and lots of people invited, I am the only poster! And after checking for something a couple of times and setting up a notification it all seems to dry up. Perhaps it is that people are politically correct, knowledge is power after all.

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Matt

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Rolling with the tide

It has occurred to me over the years that the rate of change in IT is
very slow.. I have been reading on lots of Blogs that SOA is
dwindling, cloud computing is the next big thing.. We are moving from
TOGAF to Lean and that everything is slowing down. I must admit that I
am not so sure, being a bit of an optimistic pragmatist means I like
to have a positive outlook on everything but also try and keep myself
ground. I think that lots of great thinkers have moved on, beyond SOA
into the cloud, however the majority of organisations are only just
starting to think about SOA in any meaningful way.

Anything that is outside of a point technical solution that requires
organisational change, strategic change, technology change, to name
but a few will take years to filter into the mainstream. As it happens
the areas I just mentioned are not nearly the level of impact that SOA
has. I mean how old is the oldest system in your organisation?

SOA is dead long live SOA!

Or is it? With the current state of the market and the decline in discretionary spending is it a nail in the coffin of SOA? Gartner have produced some figures around the adoption rates and they are saying that SOA adoption is tailing off, my view is that adoption is falling off because lots of organisations have already adopted! However as SOA is a more a mindset than a technology is the mindset changing? I mean if California are on the brink of going bankrupt what are the hopes for a technology that is so hyped that the commonly held belief is it is a single shot silver bullet..

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Matt

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First Blog

After resisting the temptation to drop random thoughts out onto the web, I have finally decided to give it a go. So in my first Blog I thought that I would clarify, as much in my own mind, what I am going to be blogging about. That said, I am not sure that this is going to be an exhaustive list as to be honest I think that I am just starting out, a virgin blogger so to speak.

Which does lead me to my initial point, what to Blog about....

As I work in the IT architecture space, I suspect that IT is going to be pivotal , but then again....

Back to the list....

After reading a great article on how google works I suspect that grid computing is going to be quite high on the list, with SOA being quite close behind. I realise that I should be blogging about web 2.0 but as I work on large programmes SOA is a better title. Which leads me nicely into the whole 2.0 side of things....
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