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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 ...

Roy Fielding has weighed in on the recent ''buzzwordiness'' (hey, if Colbert can make up ''truthiness'', then I can make up ''buzzwordiness'') of calling everything a ''REST API'', a tactic that has become more en vogue of late as vendors discover that the general programming population is finding the WSDL-based XML services stack too ...

PDC 2008 in LA is over now, and like most PDCs, it definitely didn't disappoint on the technical front--Microsoft tossed out a whole slew of new technologies, ideas, releases, and prototypes, all with the eye towards getting bits (in this case, a Western Digital 160 GB USB hard drive) out to the developer community and getting back ...

The full list is here. It's a pretty prestigious group--and I'm totally floored that I'm there next to some pretty big names. In homage to Ms. Sally Fields, of so many years ago... ''You like me, you really like me''. Having somebody come up to me at a conference and tell me how much they like my blog is second on my list of ''fun ...

For those of you who were at the Cinncinnati NFJS show, please continue on to the next blog entry in your reader--you've already heard this. For those of you who weren't, then allow me to make the announcement: Hi. My name's Ted Neward, and I am now a ThoughtWorker. After four months of discussions, interviews, more discussions and ...

Another DZone newsletter crosses my Inbox, and again I feel compelled to comment. Not so much in the uber-aggressive style of my previous attempt, since I find myself more on the fence on this one, but because I think it's a worthwhile debate and worth calling out. The article in question is ''5 Reasons Why You Don't Want A ...

If you've peeked at my blog site in the last twenty minutes or so, you've probably noticed some churn in the template in the upper-left corner; by now, it's been finalized, and it reads ''JOB REFERRALS''. WTHeck? Has Ted finally sold out? Sort of, not really. At least, I don't think so. Here's the deal: the company behind those ads, ...

The Pragmatic Programmer says, ''Learn a new language every year''. This is great advice, not just because it puts new tools into your mental toolbox that you can pull out on various occasions to get a job done, but also because it opens your mind to new ideas and new concepts that will filter their way into your code even without ...