Recent track shifts have Gustav consistently hitting near New Orleans, east of the majority of oil and gas rigs; though this could still change in either direction, the models have continued to converge. There are many resources under the fold (by clicking "there's more" in this post), including details of the latest oil/infra damage estimates from Chuck Watson at KAC/UCF as well as lot of other resources including rig maps, models, google earth maps, and a lot more in the comments. Please hel
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"97 Things" - Architect Axioms
I recently stumbled on "97 Things - Things every software architect should know" (via Bobby Woolf). This is a list of axioms for architects (which will eventually be a book by O'Reilly) edited by Richard Monson-Haefel. While I don't agree with all the axioms, and some, which I feel, are a bit overlapping (e.g. one on trade-offs and one on balancing), there's a lot of great stuff ther. For instance, here are a few of the ones I like:Don't put your resume ahead of the requirements - by Nitin... Di
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A few pithy thoughts on Architecture
As a follow up on the previous post. There are few things I consider as important for software architects. I wouldn't go as far as to call them axioms but I still think they are worthwhile. Think Hollistically It is always a trade-off ! Pay attention to your soft skills Get SPAMMED for architecture I wrote a lot about the forth one (see for instance this article in Dr. Dobb's). I'll expand a little about the others in the next few posts ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net ar
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Links to MSDN session resources
Thanks for a great road trip in Jacksonville FL, Columbia SC and Des Moines Iowa
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