Architecture by Hand (an OmniGraffle Stencil)
Create whiteboard-style information technology workflows and diagrams with this custom stencil for OmniGraffle. Includes iconography for networks, storage, devices,
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I always forget about my PHP development environment when I upgrade OS X. Apple must think it’s really funny to make developers figure out what’s changed and how to fix it. Snow Leopard brings us PHP 5.3, which apparently requires a value in the date.timezone setting or your code will produce warning messages. Unfortunately, this [...]
This week was a busy one for me. I launched two new websites: hallornohall.com and smartcarvs.com. Both of these sites are purely just for the heck of it. If they get some traction, great. If not, great.
Hall Or No Hall is a co-creation with my long-time pal and business partner, Matt Thompson. Our graphic designer [...]
I was just catching up on my RSS feeds when I ran across Dana Gardner’s latest post, “WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent” which evoked an odd sense of anxiety and the need to immediately jot down some of my SOA thoughts. In short, Service-Oriented Architecture is a software design [...]
This morning’s keynote entitled “Jurassic Code” by Billy Hollis was a breath of fresh air. The topic of his speech was about simplicity of software design. In making his point, he spoke strongly against Microsoft and the Visual Studio Team. He urged the audience to adopt his manifesto. People don’t want [...]
I’m excited and yet depressed about being at the VSLive! conference in Orlando, FL. I like going to conferences. I enjoy the experience of the hotels, the routines and the knowledge sharing. But it’s also very depressing and frustrating because it revolves around Microsoft.
