Archive for February, 2008

Enterprise Architecture methodologies

I am an Enterprise Architect, more by accident rather than by design. I have worked on some really large projects such as The Big Day Out, Lonely Planet, Flight Centre, ANZ, Bigpond and many others. I have also solution architected and implemented some of the largest web sites that have been produced in Australia.
Like anything [...]

My problem with Twitter…

Ok, a little while ago I thought I would give Twitter a go, and I wondered if I would like it.
 Well uncategorically I can say that it is not for me.
Why?

I have realised no one really cares what I am doing at a micro level.
The people who are the most likely to be interested in [...]

Translation update

Mood: Recovering…
Sound: Cat Empire
Travel destination: Japan 
A while ago I was trying to find out what the Japanese on my shirt said. Well…
Scarily I have found out:
left-top 包茎手術 : phimosis surgery
middle-top 性病治療 : cure for sexually transmitted desease
left-bottom 精力アップ : improvement of sexial vitality
left-middle レーザー脱毛 : laser depilation
right-bottom 薄毛・植毛 : alopecia and hair transplant
All these are [...]

OpenID authentication protocol

Mood: Contemplative
Sound: The Fumes
Travel destination: Japan   
I have been playing with OpenID a lot lately. I have also been lucky enough to have a talented Ruby coder working with me to get the provider side of things worked out. At this stage we have gone with RESTful implementation and a MySQL datastore. OpenID is completely transparent to [...]