Articles Archive for April 2008
Posted in Food, Life in Madison on 20 April 2008
Last night we cooked the first dinner of the season from the Farmer’s Market. All of the food came from the Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square except for the Mint Newman-Ohs. We made grilled trout with a parsley pesto (italian parsley, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper), grilled fingerling potatoes [...]
Digital Neighborhoods - Guiding designPosted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, Headline, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work, software on 18 April 2008
Digital neighborhoods seem like a powerful tool for discussing technology and its impact on users (students, staff, researchers, etc) and the concept adds interesting new requirements to projects. Getting a good understanding of your users’ digital neighborhoods can guide design and deployment of new technologies and help predict impacts on the users themselves. [...]
Eat your vegis or Have A Little Green Tree - getting EA into the EnterprisePosted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, Headline, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work on 17 April 2008
I was thinking about how, when I try to get buy-in for doing Enterprise Architecture as a holistic thing, I tend not get very far with the campus. But, when I parse out little EA bits, they catch on. I was thinking about this in terms of the metaphor: Getting Kids To Eat [...]
EA in Academia PresentationPosted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Presentations, TOGAF, The Open Group, Work on 16 April 2008
Below is a repackaged copy of my “Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments” presentation that I gave at EDUCAUSE Mid-West Regional Conference 2008. It is packaged as a Quicktime Movie.
Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments
Posted in Ena, Life in Madison, Lola, photos on 13 April 2008
From our walk at Governor Nelson State Park today…
Posted in Life in Madison on 3 April 2008
This is a clean, white wine. A clean finish with a light balance.
