Catchup at Cebit

Posted In: 2008 , Australia , Conferene , Innovation , Technology
By Vishal Sharma

I will be heading to Sydney on May 22 to attend CeBIT's Transaction 2.0 conference. For those who are interested in catching up with me, please feel free to come and chat with me. Our Australian Startups Carnival 2008 winner Scouta has got a pod for exhibition in TechRamp Pavilion, so will be there for some time as well.

Its going to be exciting and a little bit hectic, but its worth it. I'm looking forward to catch up with lot of new friends. Continue Reading....

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Interview with Brad Howarth - Australian Innovation and Startups Landscape

Posted In: Australia , Innovation , Interview , Startup , Technology
By Vishal Sharma

As part of our ongoing interviews with CEO's, Media Personalities, Philanthropists, and VC’s, to gauge the innovation and startups landscape in Australia, today we showcase our interview with Freelance Journalist, Public Speaker, Mr. Brad Howarth, who writes on Australia’s startup industry, digital marketing, dangers of climate change and other relevant topics in this domain.

This is what Brad has to say in a detailed interview with me. Read it here

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What Leads to Success

Posted In: Life Style , Success
By Vishal Sharma

I recently came across this 3 minute video via Ivan Kaye on How to be successful in life. TED
describes 8 essential parameters :

Passion 2.Work 3. Focus 4. Persist 5. Serve 6. Ideas 7.Good 8.Push

Watch this amazing video

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Software Architecture Antipatterns Primer

Posted In: Antipatterns , Architecture , Software
By Vishal Sharma

I have been putting together solutions in IT enterprise space for quite a while now. Some of the frameworks used over the years, for example are

While TOGAF is a really a promising and an Agile way of doing things, I need to get more handle on this though.
One of the things, which amazes me while designing a solution or replying to an RFP, is heavy use of architectural and deign patterns. Using Patterns is not bad, but over the years i have found sometimes a simple solution become quit complex and bloated. I have burned my fingers in the past with this and have stared using some antipatterns approach as well. For those who are interested, I'm linking some of the architectural antipatterns here, I do refer them from time to time for my solutions.