Gordon’s Place

“An XML document is loosley coupled with it’s schema… This means that programs that extract data directly from the XML structure using standard XML expressions such as XPath are idependant of the schema and loosley coupled with the structure itself”
That quote is from David A. Chappell’s Enterprise Service Bus, which is my current lunchtime reading, [...]

I’ve been doing a bit of thinking about architectural layers recently. The purpose of the separate layers in an enterprise architecture is pretty well understood – to isolate the layer above from the layer below. So the UI knows about nothing below the Business Logic ( BL ) layer and the BL knows nothing about [...]

I’ve got a backpack account. If you haven’t seen backpack, it’s kind of an easy to use, friendly wiki. Actually, I’m not going to try and describe it, there are plenty of sample pages and quicktime videos on the site if you want to grok what it’s all about. But one of the neat things [...]

My car has been in and out of the garage 5 times in the last couple of weeks. There’s a light in the middle of the dashboard which keeps coming on. When it does, I take it into the garage and they diagnose a different faulty part. I pay them to replace the part, take [...]

I’m in the process of moving my other domain – www.redsoftware.co.uk – over to the same host as is running this site. While that’s going on and the DNS servers are propogating you may have some problems accessing the site, or sending me emails. If you do need to get a message through, you can [...]

I’ve just switched to using feedburner to power my RSS / ATOM feeds. I’ve used a couple of rules in the .htaccess file to remap the current URLs to the feedburner URLs, so you shouldn’t notice any difference. Wordpress is pretty good for a lot of things, but there’s no way to tell how many [...]