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"); /* EXTERNAL LINKS */ /* arguments: hint,label,level,url,desc */ /* companies */ lCoralis = new sectionItem("Coralis","Freelance Cooperative: www.coralis.be",2,"http://www.coralis.be","I am member of a cooperative of freelancers; an interesting business model given that we share commercial leads and assist each other with expertise, and save our customers from structural charges when they are just looking for good resources."); lAprico = new sectionItem("Aprico Consultants","ICT project experts: www.aprico-consult.com",2,"http://www.aprico-consult.com","Being independent is nice, but being alone is not, especially when you like to design solutions and propose them to customers. Aprico Consultants is a small ICT company with a strong project-oriented culture and team spirit. I really enjoy being one of their Solution Architects."); /* web sites */ lPraxemeOrg = new sectionItem("The PRAXEME Institute","The main author's web site: The PRAXEME Institute",2,"http://www.praxeme.org","The PRAXEME method is public under a Creative Commons license. This web site publishes the original materials (training courses and methodological guides) which are in French language. A few documents in English are anyhow available."); lOrchestra = new sectionItem("Orchestra Networks","SOA-related materials at the web site of the co-author of PRAXEME",2,"http://www.orchestranetworks.com/fr/soa/","These materials (in French language) complement the PRAXEME documents available from the PRAXEME Institute"); lSustainable = new sectionItem("Sustainable IT Architecture","Materials from the Sustainable IT Architecture web site",2,"http://www.sustainableitarchitecture.com/materials ","Sustainable IT architecture is the english version of an original IT book that is very popular in France. The web site presents a new approach to the design of IT systems truly capable to support change. Yes, this is Service-oriented but the originality lies in the PRAXEME methodology. The site contains translated PRAXEME documents."); /* specific documents */ lPEGS = new sectionItem("EU Commission Report by the author", "Technology and market trends for European e-Government services",2,"http://europa.eu.int/idabc/servlets/Doc?id=18945","A report I prepared in 2004 - through Capgemini - for the European Comission on technology and market evolutions which could affect the implementation of pan-European e-Government services (PEGS) in the next five years (the document was written in 2004). Integration issues in a pan-European government context are not purely technical, so the report placed emphasis on technologies (dynamic discovery and matching of web services, Business Process Management, "Dataweb", etc) that could support semantic and organisational interoperability."); lPraxIntro = new sectionItem("Introduction to PRAXEME", "A Comprehensive Introduction to PRAXEME, a method for the design of Sustainable Enterprise Systems",2,"../praxeme/Praxeme_An_introduction_by_B_Hauzeur.pdf","A 40 page presentation of the PRAXEME methodology for the design of Service Oriented Enterprise Systems."); lPraxWebinarPDF = new sectionItem("PRAXEME Overview Webinar", "Scripted Document - What Managers Must Know before the Next IT Project",2,"../praxeme/Praxeme_Overview_Webinar_by_B_Hauzeur.pdf","A 50 page presentation of the PRAXEME methodology to the attention of IT and Business Managers."); lPraxWebinarPPT = new sectionItem("PRAXEME Overview Webinar", "Live Webinar - What Managers Must Know before the Next IT Project",2,"../praxeme/Praxeme_Overview_Webinar_by_B_Hauzeur.html","A 1 hour webinar introducing the PRAXEME methodology to the attention of IT and Business Managers."); /* lPraxIntroZ = new sectionItem("Introduction to zzzPRAXEME", "zzzA Comprehensive Introduction to PRAXEME, a method for the design of Sustainable Enterprise Systems",2,"zzz../praxeme/Praxeme_An_introduction_by_B_Hauzeur.pdf","zzzA 40 page presentation of the PRAXEME methodology for the design of Service Oriented Enterprise Systems."); */ lEWD0447 = new sectionItem("EWD 447 - Edgsger W. Dijkstra","On the Role of Scientific Thought",2,"http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD447.html","[Excerpts] E.W. Dijkstra: [...]. We make something with the best of intentions in the hope of satisfying a need as we understand it, but when our product has been put into action, it does not perform satisfactorily and how are we to discover whether we have correctly made the wrong thing or whether there is just a silly bug somewhere?"); lEWD0619 = new sectionItem("EWD 619 - Edgsger W. Dijkstra","Essays on the nature and role of mathematical elegance",2,"http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD619.html","[Excerpts] E.W. Dijkstra: [...] Deep in their hearts the idea of complete intellectual control over their designs does not really attract them: many, I found, derive a great part of their professional excitement from not quite understanding what they are doing and from the glorious risks they take in their daring irresponsibility. 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Dijkstra: You see, while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery, we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained, nor to what extent the intrinsic complexity of the whole design has to show up in the interfaces. [...] We simply do not know yet the limits of disentanglement. We do not know yet whether intrinsic intricacy can be distinguished from accidental intricacy."); lEWD0566 = new sectionItem("EWD 566 - Edgsger W. Dijkstra","Programming: from craft to scientific discipline",2, "http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd05xx/EWD566.PDF", "[Excerpts] E.W. Dijkstra: while in the past it was regarded as the purpose of our programs to instruct our computers, a shift to the opposite view could now take place, viz. that it is the purpose of our machines to execute our programs.");