Joomla versus Wordpress

Deploying and maintaining websites used to be quite the ordeal, especially if you had content intensive requirements or clients who wanted to be able to update key design features such as navigation on a regular basis. While approaches for how to manage that process improved from the early 90’s through to early 2000’s there was still a great deal of manual coordination and update required. Changes in scripts deployed inline needed to be adjusted...

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Deconstructing Time part 7 - Mach's Principle

Before we introduce Mach or Relativity, let's step back for a moment and recap what we've covered so far. We began with a Use Case - how do we find coordinates in space-time? This is a Use Case that could be applied to Astronomy, to GPS scenarios, to writing Science Fiction stories or movies and potentially many to other situations.  We explained how we would take an outsider's perspective using what is a essentially an IT methodology for problem...

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Can Enterprise Architecture be Agile?

We're taking another break today from Physics to talk about IT innovation again. IT practice changes quite a bit and certain practices come and go. About 10 years ago, Enterprise Architecture (EA) surged to the forefront of the IT community primarily because it was adopted as part of the key acquisition processes connected to the Federal Government. The law that brought this about was called the Clinger-Cohen Act and it provided portfolio management...

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Deconstructing Time part 6 - Particle v. Wave

In our last post, we promised to tackle some of the  more important questions in modern physics. Why are we doing this? Well, each question has specific relevance to the main Use Case we began with in regards to understanding how to find coordinates in Time. We'll begin where Einstein began by asking about Light (in fact what many people don't know is that Einstein earned his first Nobel prize not for Relativity but his short paper on the Photo-electric...

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Deconstructing Time part 5 - Intuitive Physics

Before we dive into modern Physics theory I think it's probably appropriate to introduce a concept and provide a critique on the current way Physics is practiced. This is not meant to be critical per se - it's simply another way to illustrate the method I described in the first post on Deconstructing Time. Any time an IT Architect such as myself accepts an assignment, we run the risk of setting foot within an entirely new domain - at least it is...

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Integrating Design & Architecture

We're going to take a short break from Physics and dive back into IT - actually pretty soon we will see them intersect in our discussions - but for now we're going to expand on a topic I introduced on Dice.com last year: Integrated Design. Many people view design work and architecture within IT as separate disciplines and perhaps as many different disciplines. It's my firm belief that all design-related effort (and architecture most definitely falls...

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Deconstructing Time part 4 - Introducing Motion

In our last post on Time, we began providing some context to the discussion of time as well as context to where it is that Time actually occurs – e.g. within events and reference frames. For this discussion to really make sense though we need to step back and look at the big picture (actually this is something that will need to occur several times over the course of this series). At some point soon we’ll take a closer look at what Special Relativity,...

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