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For a couple of years now, I've been going around the world and giving a talk entitled ''Pragmatic Architecture'', talking both about what architecture is (and what architects really do), and ending the talk with my own ''catalog'' of architectural elements and ideas, in an attempt to take some of the mystery and ''cloud'' nature of ...

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic on the coming year. (I'm thinking that maybe the next year--2010's edition--I should actually take a shot at predicting the next decade, but I'm not sure if I'd remember to go back and ...

It amazes me how insular and inward-facing the software industry is. And how the ''agile'' movement is reaping the benefits of a very simple characteristic. For example, consider Jeff Palermo's essay on ''The Myth of Self-Organizing Teams''. Now, nothing against Jeff, or his post, per se, but it amazes me how our industry believes that ...

Dustin Campbell, a self-professed ''IDE guy'', is speaking at the .NET Developer's Association of Redmond this evening, on the future of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010, and I feel compelled, based on my earlier ''dissing'' of VB in my thoughts of PDC post, to give VB a little love here. First of all, he notes publicly that the VB and ...