Sober Counsel

Have you ever said something that sounds really silly, then replayed it in your head and thought “Actually that’s really profound”.
I was trying to describe the strategic process to someone the other day and I ended up saying:
“If you have no desire to be somewhere else, then you must be happy with where you are.”
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We have often in the past struggled with the process of establishing some architectural patterns.
It is probably one of those things, that if you try to find a use for it, you will fail, but one day it will suddenly be obvious.
One of my esteemed colleagues was working on an audit of a Disaster recovery [...]

This is supposed to be an IT philosophy blog, but I’ll argue that Idempotence should be a coding philosophy.
Loosely, something that is Idempotent (Idem:Once, Potent:Having effect) will have an effect only the first time it is executed or will have exactly the same result every subsequent time it is executed.
Some say that dividing or multiplying [...]

A while back I came across a concept called TRIZ.  Concepts and techniques that are used in non-English speaking countries sometimes do not get translated quickly into use in our insular English worldview.
Triz is a Russian Engineering tool that has been used for some time.  It is apparently a definitive list of design trade-offs that [...]