J. Ambrose Little

The Timeless Way is Agile

I finally got around to finishing The Timeless Way of Building , by Christopher Alexander (most well known in software for being the source of the patterns movement).  The last part of the book is called "The Way" to build things.  Read More...

Report from SD Best Practices

[Those who follow my personal blog can ignore this.] Last week I had the pleasure of attending the SD Best Practices conference in Boston. I learned a lot and met some good folks. While I was there, I published a series of daily summaries/reports about Read More...

What is a Domain Model?

When searching recently so as to provide further reading for "domain model" in a recent post , I was quite surprised to find that there seemed to be no good definition readily available (at least not by Googling "domain model").  Read More...

Web Services Best Practices

As I sit here on my deck, enjoying the cool autumn breeze 1 , I thought, what better thing to write about than Web services ! Well, no, actually I am just recalling some stuff that's happened lately. On the MSDN Architecture forums and in some coding Read More...

Me? An INETA Speaker?

I wasn't going to post about it, but after reading Don's post , I realized that I should so that I can thank those involved in presenting me with this honor. I was surprised when I was contacted about being nominated to be an INETA speaker , and I was Read More...