Thoughts on being a Solution Architect

Thanks to Tom Hollander for putting together a list of requirements for a Solution Architect. I think this will be useful in justifying some more 'Architectural' effort as we continue to grow.

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Schools Of Software Development

I thoroughly agree with Martin Fowler's recent comments on Schools of Software Development. He says that we don't know which school is right but I would go a little further I don't think that there is even a single right. There is no single right way to prepare a steak so why should there be a single right way to build a system. As with a steak there are too many alternative solutions.

That doesn't change Martin's point - we need to respect the existence of different schools and coexist.

Fritz Onion on Silverlight 2

I went to listen to Fritz Onion last night. I have to say that I was a little disappointed. The reason for my disappointment had more to do with my expectations than the presentation itself.

First I think that I have very high expectations of the well known names. I listened to a Presentation by Juval Lowy and I was just so impressed both by the content of the presentation and his knowledgeable handling of the questions. He is a hard act to follow.

Second I have significant reservations about Silverlight. This is partly because I can't see it being used in my company but also because we have been down this path before with Java and it hasn't really taken off. There are some differences a major one I suspect is that Java Applets were UGLY. They seemed to come from an earlier time. Silverlight has a subset of WPF that although it is missing the 3D features can still simply render some very beautiful user interface.