Below are some of the more coherent things I’ve written over the years.<\/p>\n
Listen to the wild ducks: How IBM adopted Slack<\/strong><\/a> (31 January\u00c2\u00a02017) Working like a startup at IBM<\/a><\/strong> (11 September\u00c2\u00a02014) Architects<\/a><\/strong> (16 March 2014) What is an enterprise, anyway?<\/a><\/strong> (co-authored with Mike Loukides on O’Reilly Radar, 3 Sep 2013) The Jobs DNA<\/a><\/strong> (9 Oct 2011) RESTy long-ops<\/a><\/strong> (27 April 2011) Ajax Code Loading Optimization Techniques<\/a><\/strong> (26 Oct 2010) Jazz Extensibility Evolution<\/a><\/strong> (3 Jan 2010) Frameworks and Building Blocks<\/strong><\/a> (10 Oct 2008) The Uncanny Valley of User Interface Design<\/strong><\/a> (17 May 2007)
\nHow leadership and grassroots collaborated to support positive\u00c2\u00a0culture change via the adoption of Slack.<\/p>\n
\nA story of how\u00c2\u00a0my\u00c2\u00a0team worked like a startup inside IBM to create IBM Service Engage.<\/p>\n
\nThe role of the architect. How it helps. How it hurts.<\/p>\n
\nAn attempt to define what constitutes an enterprise led to a much more important insight.<\/p>\n
\nHow Steve Jobs’ success at Apple\u00c2\u00a0will gradually but fundamentally alter the technology industry, ultimately in a more profound way than the products\u00c2\u00a0he created.<\/p>\n
\nA simple RESTful protocol that supports invoking long-running, possibly composite operations, while providing helpful progress feedback to the user.<\/p>\n
\nA collection of techniques to load JavaScript and CSS code faster; especially useful in bloaty Ajax applications.<\/p>\n
\nOn the Jazz Platform’s evolution from an extensible server to a set of discoverable, collaborating applications.<\/p>\n
\nDon’t build monolithic frameworks.<\/p>\n
\nWhy it’s sometimes unsettling when an application tries to emulate the user experience of a foreign platform.<\/p>\n