Gordon’s Place

I got off the plane in Heathrow and switched my phone back on. I didn’t look at it again until I got to our hotel, after a journey of about an hour on the tube. When I did look at it, there was a prompt asking me whether or not I wanted to accept dubiousfilename.sis [...]

There’s been quite a few hints recently on the PEG that some form of OO is coming in the next ( 10.1 ) release. This morning this message put a little more meat on the bones. There’s obviously a while to go yet until we see whether this is what actually gets delivered and what [...]

Sonic have put together a bunch of great Visio templates specifically for diagramming ESBs. It’s available for download, but you want to read the licence agreement carefully. It seems to licence the “images” for internal use only. I’m not clear what the implications are for diagrams produced using these templates.

My latest project is just starting to get up to speed and it looks probable that it’s going to give me my first opportunity to build an Enterprise Service Bus. It’s still too early for me to be completely clear on the architecture we’re going to implement, but I’m getting torn into David Chappell’s [...]

I got a new phone recently, an Orange SPV c500 ( aka Audiovox SMT5600 / HTC Typhoon / Scoble Phone ), which runs MS Windows Mobile as it’s OS. This is a new OS to me and it’s taken me a bit of time to get to grips with it, mainly because of a lack [...]