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At the conclusion of the modulating bridge, we expect to be in the contrasting key of C minor.

We missed the point when we adopted "patterns" in the software world.

In my last post, I talked about using Erlang models to size the front end of a system.

Sizing, Danish Style Folks in telecommunications and operations research have used Erlang models for almost a century.

Patrick Muellr has an interesting post about being brainwashed into believing that the outrageous is normal.

One thing I noticed when I fired up my first Windows instances on EC2 was that Windows never asked me for a license key.

It may be a bit perverse, but I wanted to hit a Windows EC2 instance from my Mac.

I'm a huge booster of AWS and EC2.

In my series on dirty data, I made the argument that sometimes incomplete, inaccurate, or inconsistent data was OK.

Considering that it's 7:30 AM local time---where "local" means Aarhus, Denmark---and I'm awake and online, it looks like I've successfully reset my internal clock.

The Seinfeld/Gates ad is so laughably bad that people are already building indexes of the negative reactions, less than 24 hours after it launched.

"Release It" has now been translated into Korean.

A short while back, I did a brief series on the value of "dirty data"---copious amounts of unstructured, non-relational data created by the many interactions user have with your site and each other.

O'Reilly is creating a new line of "community-authored" books.

Stewart Brand's famous book How Buildings Learn has been on my reading queue for a while, possibly a few years.

Dan Pritchett is a man after my own heart.

There seems to be something inherently contradictory about "Enterprise" agile tool vendors.

As an organization scales up, it must navigate several transitions.

Amazon has issued a more detailed statement explaining the S3 outage from June 20, 2008.

I've talked before about adopting a failure-oriented mindset.

If large amounts of dirty data are actually valuable, how do you go about collecting it?

Continuing my theme of filthy data.

Data is the future.

Many of the really hard problems in web architecture today exist outside the application server.

A couple of years ago, the Minneapolis-St.

Wordle has been meming it's way around the 'Net lately.

InfoQ posted a video of Jim Webber and Martin Fowler doing a keynote speech at QCon London this Spring.

An odd thing happened to me today.

I mentioned Tom DeMarco just a couple of days ago.

A friend invited me to Plurk.

In his great collection of essays Why Does Software Cost So Much?

See Getting Started With SpringSource Application Platform, Eclipse, and Maven.

A little while ago, I wrote a piece about the conflict between "clouds" and the hard boundaries of the political sphere.

According to eWeek, Google will make GAE open to public use on May 28th.

So, I got a Wii for Father's Day last year.

Just now getting my hands on the SpringSource Application Platform.

Apparently, there's a virus attack.

Sun opened the final day of JavaOne with a general session called "Extreme Innovation".

The notion of a service-oriented architecture is real, and it can deliver.

Much of the interest in dynamic languages like Groovy, JRuby, and Scala comes from running on the JVM.

SAP has been talking up their suite of SOA tools.

I am not a language designer, nor a researcher in type systems.

One of the frequently asked questions at the No Fluff, Just Stuff expert panels boils down to, "When should I get off the Java train?"

Matthias Schorer talked about FIDUCIA IT AG and their service-oriented architecture.

Part of Sun's push behind JavaFX will be called "Project Hydrazine".

What happens to the revolutionaries, once they've won?

Yesterday, I let myself get optimistic about what Jonathan Schwartz coyly hinted about over the weekend.

Nobody can miss the dramatic proliferation of cloud computing platforms and initiatives over the last couple of years.

On June 26-28, 2008, I'll be speaking at the inagural Agile IT!

Amazon must have been burning more midnight oil than usual lately.