| Enterprise Architecture | |
|---|---|
The old adage is that you always have an enterprise architecture even if you never designed one This is all well and good, but given an
ongoing enterprise, what’s the best way to determine what enterprise
architecture you have, where you want it to go and most importantly, how
to get there |
TOGAF and Evaluating Architectures |
| Using Archimate | Discussing Enterprise Architecture |
Flavors of Architects and Analysts A discussion on the difference between architects and business analysts |
Flavors of Architects and Analysts | Platform Architecture |
| How does one create a “reasonable” platform architecture Part 1: Aspects of a platform architecture |
Aspects of a platform architecture |
Part 2: Platform evolution |
Platform evolution |
| Open Source as an Architectural Driver Phillip Longman’s post about open source products in healthcare (specifically, the VA’s “health IT system”) talks about how the Midland Memorial Hospital’s installation of the VA system went well because it was easy to use, and it was easy to use because it was open source. |
Open Source as an Architectural Driver | Software Architecture |
| How to make discovery informatics tools significantly more flexible and extensible Part 1: What is special about drug discovery? |
Flexible Drug Discovery |
Part 2: What can drug discovery informatics share with Web 2.0 projects? |
Drug Discovery & Web 2.0 |
| Modularity & Hygiene: the issues of hygiene in coding libraries The pernicious errors that can be introduced by either mixing different libraries or not using them exactly as designed. |
Modularity & Hygiene I |
| Modularity & Hygiene II: The environment expected by a module when it is activated |
Modularity & Hygiene II |
| Temporal data: what did we know when? | Temporal Data |
| Structuring Database Tables: Wide vs narrow table structure |
Database Table Structure |