News from 'Ruminations on Architecture and Security'

^ Devil?s Architect

[Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:37:10 +0000]

Most of us are familiar with a famous quote from the movie “Devil’s Advocate”. If it was Devil’s Architect, it would sound like this (adaptation by me): Let me give you a little inside information about Solution Architects. They like to watch. They are pranksters. Think about it. They give project managers architecture descriptions. They [...]

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^ Found: Identity Provider Business Case, or not?

[Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:04:05 +0000]

I had the pleasure to have been part of the Identity community in the “early days”. Right before OpenID came into existence and most people thought of Microsoft Passport as innovative. One very hot topic was the idea of an “Identity Provider”. An Identity Provider is a party on the Internet who would be happy [...]

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^ Automating Business Services in ArchiMate

[Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:56:22 +0000]

02/10/2010: after posting this, there were some insightful comments made. I encourage you to read them as well. I am generally very enthousiastic about ArchiMate. What is not to like? It produces elegant models that are easily understood by a broad family of stakeholders and the viewpoint categorization is refreshing and very useful, especially compared [...]

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^ Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2010

[Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:35:27 +0000]

For all you (enterprise) architects out there, I’ll be at the 11th Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2010 in London next week. I will be Twittering at @bderidder and I hope to write on this blog a couple of times. Not sure what the Twitter tag will be, but I’ll find out next week.

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^ My pin code is ? ****

[Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:50:33 +0000]

Yes, you read that right, I gave you my pin code, it’s … ****. Of course, unless you lack a brain, you know that **** is not even a valid pin code. It’s what you see on screen when you enter your code at any ATM. No need to protect that … or is there? [...]

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^ Some still don?t get it!

[Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:37:04 +0000]

This post is about security, so if you are not into that, feel free to skip it. Today I get a friendly email from the national railroad company of Belgium (NMBS) in which they announced a brand new site to order international train tickets. It also mentioned that instead of using my made up user [...]

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^ Set UML Free

[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:03:44 +0000]

Yesterday I received an invitation to support an effort to set UML free. You can read all about it on webuml.org. Currently the site is a wall of text (tip for the authors: less is more … and there is nothing wrong with a picture or two ) but if you have some spare time I [...]

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^ One Trick Ponies

[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:46:42 +0000]

Recently I came across an excellent article on One Trick Ponies in the world of architecture. One trick ponies who know only one type of solution and desperately try to make that one the only possible solution. This part of the article made me smile, especially since it perfectly describes my sentiment after a situation [...]

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^ From The Internet ? 22/11 2009

[Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:35:51 +0000]

Various resources on the Internet you might find useful. At least recommended reading for a spare moment. Which Comes First: Technical skills, Process or Relationship. Article that highlights the mismatch between business people and more technically inclined people. A good read for any architect who wants to get closer to the business side of the [...]

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^ Cloud IT as an Architectural Style

[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:41:46 +0000]

Martin Kuppinger from Kuppinger Cole, known from the excellent European Identity Conference, wrote a very interesting article on Cloud Computing: “It’s not about the cloud – it’s about Cloud IT“. … But the more you dive into the topic of cloud computing it becomes obvious that this cloudy thing of “cloud” (usually associated with the [...]

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