The Paris Guide To IT Architecture
McKinsey, 2000. One of my favorite analogy articles for enterprise architecture and design.
“This city-planning analogy can help established companies avoid IT architecture problems. A company might believe that major chunks of its applications are so unfit for current needs that they might as well have come from the Middle Ages. At the same time, IT departments are repeatedly asked to add new functions and to integrate business units and allied companies.”
Space navigation is hard. Discuss.
Actually you’ll end up in an irregular heliocentric orbit, frozen and asphyxiated whilst bombarded by hard radiation
#space #moon #? #❄️ #?
Regarding Ada
“… fantastically inventive and profoundly lonely.”
Beautiful prose by @JamesGleick #TheInformation #writing
The Desk
Last year we renovated our home office. This had been a very dark/mission brown environment. A recent trip to Latvia and Denmark inspired us to rebuild it as a white/light timber finish.
The challenge we had was in find a desk to fit the space we’d designed. With Pinterest as a “I’m-not-sure-what-I-want-but-I’ll-know-when-I-see-it” inspiration, we found a long, trestle-supported table that looked perfect. The challenge was that no local retailers had such a piece.
Having trawled IKEA several times, I figured that the path to take was to make one from ‘hacked’ pieces. We documented the result through the popular Ikea-Hackers website.
