The Super-Geek Top Ten A super-geek top ten, exploring the more human side of some of the greatest computer scientists in history.

The Event-Driven Architecture An introduction to the event-driven architecture and the subject of complex event processing as they apply to business.

Wife Swapping and the Art of Conflict Great results requires great leadership, which is less about trying to get people to reach consensus than enabling productive conflict via the gift of the wife swap pattern.

Role Models and Services Successful SOA is about being able to define real services and not confusing them with interfaces. The secret to services is roles.

Systemic Requirements Non-functional requirements, system constraints and qualities, systemic requirements. Whatever you call them, here they are.

Solution Maturity Design, or Technical, Debt is receiving growing acceptance in the development community as a useful and practical metaphor. This article shows how it can be used as a measure of solution maturity at the enterprise level in corporate environments.

Make room for Functional Programming 2 The second of two parts explaining the main concepts of functional programming: this time through a worked example.

Make room for Functional Programming 1 The first of a two-part article explaining all the main concepts of functional programming: from lambda functions, to closures, to continuations, to monads.

Dancing with the Reuse Fairy This is the story of the software reuse fairy. She comes and goes, seducing some, and annoying others. She is real, but there are good reasons not to believe.

Embracing the Third Way There’s still too much fervour around open source vs commercial software. One isn’t better than the other, and both are here to stay. Harmony lies not with the communities, but with the users and IT leaders who need to accept their responsibilities to make both prosper.