It’s not change people don’t like, it’s being changed
The Agile Business Conference—held in Docklands' Excel this year—seemed well attended. Perhaps this was because Leith's serves up a decent conference buffet menu (it was quite good) but...
Report from Techwave – part 2
Reporting some real customer views of Sybase IQ and PowerDesigner, two of Sybase's current successs stories.
First report from TechWave 2008
I seem to be at Techwave 2008 today, probably because Philip Howard is on holiday. But there's a lot more to Sybase than databases....
Oracle BEA Strategy
At the beginning of July 2008, Oracle made a presentation on their product strategy since the acquisition of BEA.
Why oh why oh why oh (RSDC Fytte 3)
A search for beauty in conference themes... Or, why does everything have to be so blinkin' cool?
IBM RSDC – 2nd Fytte
A round up of what tickled me at RSDC in the way of new tools. We have a new (ish) language and some promise of help with governance.
IBM RSDC 2008 – Fytte the First
A look at Rationals announcement of the Jazz platform, some new products and its reaction to the Telelogic acquisition.
Hello and Welcome
Welcome to my new Blog, in which I set out the "terms of engagement" as far as I am concerned.
Controversy in SCM
Our recent article on Accurev prompted some feedback from the Subversion camp. But the real issue isn't the tools you buy but whether you can manage the People and Process aspects of SCM.
Abstractions in MDD
Model Driven Development (MDD) tools are often too close to the physical code, although a completely generalised code-independent tool is hard to build. Perhaps Domain Specific Models can offer a better approach to MDD.