• information technology systems governance

• Criticism of Software Design and Architecture Patterns
• Batch Process Architecture Pattern
• Client Server Architecture Pattern
• N-Tier Architecture Pattern
• Peer to Peer Architecture Pattern
• Service Oriented Architecture Pattern

• UML Profile for a Service Oriented Architecture
• Service Oriented Architecture Overview

• Scatter & Gather
• Message Aggregate by Fan-In
• Message Decompose by Fan-Out
• Message Pipe-line

Software Engineering is the application of Scientific Method and Engineering Principle to the development of software.

• Document Template
• Position Paper Template
• Usecase Template

• The only constant is change
• Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
• Risk Factors
• Development Risk
• Iterative Development Methodology
• Heroics are for firefighters not Software Engineers
• Continuous Integration
• Source Control
• Make Software Metrics work

Agile development is a description that is applied to describe a group of software development methodologies that emphasis flexibility with the aim to addressing the perceived weakness of the traditional water-fall methodology.

• Scrum
• DSDM Dynamic Systems Development methodology
• Testing Ontology
• Technical Debt
• RAID Log Management

• Strawman Myths about Object Oriented Programming

• Single Responsibility Principle
• Open Closed Principle
• Liskov Substitution Principle

• Usecase Analysis
• Leaky Abstrations
• Delegate Responsibility
• Polymorphism

• Usecase Modelling
• Domain Modelling

Java language idioms

• Checked vs Unchecked Exceptions
• Code Smell
• Encapsulate Data with a Memento
• Implementing UML Associations in Java
• Example Singleton Template for Netbeans
• Java Class Factory
• Java Static Class initialisation
• Loading a resource from within a jar
• ISO Timestamp
• Dynamic Switch using GOF Command Pattern
• Simple Java Polymorphic Thread Bot
• Simple Threaded Port Scanner
• Simple GUI Mapping for WebDriver

• Entity Access Matrix
• CRUD Entity Matrix
• Conditional Coverage Tree
• SOAPUI
• WebDriver

Groovy language idioms

• Refactoring SOAPUI using Groovy
• SOAPUI reusable Script Library

• Singleton considered unsafe
• JDBC Connection Pools considered unsafe

• XML Document Design

• User Datagram Protocol
• Transaction Control Protocol
• Unicast Addressing
• Multicast Addressing

• The Ballonist
• Dear Mr Architect
• The Butterfly Parable
• The Rule of Rules
• TODO Work in Progress

• Brook's Law "Nine women cannot make a baby in one month"

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