You are the first software "architect" we've had on here as far as I know.... my dad used to be a systems "architect" though. Alas, no help there, as he can't find work either!

Dude you're not an architect.

This reminds me of the role John Goodman played in the movie, Arachnaphobia in which he was a fat redneck bug exterminator who kept calling the Entomologist Doctor guy his "colleague."

I only remember this cuz' I watched the movie last night. It was on Starz and I was insanely bored, tired, and worn out from studio...

Where on earth did you find the time to become a software architect in between erecting all of those lovely cookie cutter spec-homes? And how is your contracting company coming along Bobbi?

Oh shit! It's that bobbi Primanti guy or whatever.

To think, I was about to go on this entire tangent about how the AIA should step up to these people. But I'm glad I've spared myself and you all from such a boring tangent.

awww, shit! I didn't catch that it was this idiot. And I was trying to be nice...

Any Custodial Engineers out there?

I dated a "petroleum distribution engineer"....at least that's what he told me...

only 20 and already an engineer...wow...

*dreamy*

you're the first software designer who's had to ask how to post a picture.
congratulations!

modesto is a hot bed of software innovation.
just move and you'll find plenty of work there.
jump and the net will appear.

not to mention that modesto is like, two hours from silicon valley, there, dude.


so what about the use of the word *architect* as it applies to the design/construction of something other than that which involves the 3d built environment.

can one simply differentiate between architect and Architect? the latter being protected by licensure etc. and the former being used in sentences like...


"Mr. Bob Loblah, architect of the Geneva Conventions section on cruelty to animals..."

or

"Hi guys, i'm an information architect."


I have a friend in NYC who's an information architect. says so right on her business card.

she designs the plan and structure of websites which are then tarted up by graphic designers (who in this instance are merely the interior decorators of the worldwide web...)

True story. Really.

oh you cut right to the heart of it OF.

I believe I read awhile back..In KATZE profile that Katze is a Softwar4e Architect....or something like thats

Yes Katze here is a software programmer now studying architecture.

and I concur with Archmed,

spiderman, you are NOT an architect till you learn and practise design of buildings and spaces, Ha!

There was a very famous book published many years ago --- I think the frase "Pattern language" was in the or maybe ,was the title. Now that book was about software develobment about advanced object oriented programming ; about writing software using patterns for problem solving in writing software , ------- now what do you think most architects thought it was about ? They saw the word "architecture" but forgot that this text was about software ; then they tried building houses from it.....

Per, did you read "A Pattern Language"? The book is not about software development. It is about using patterns to describe systems of order in built form. Nevertheless the book has *parallells* to object-oriented programming, hypertexts etc.

Yes -- the book describe very good the princips in object oriented programming. Like many other of this kind of books, it is not very specific and I guess this is the reson architects misunderstood the intension that was Object oriented programming -- and yes this book acturly made me understand my own "sort"of programming much better, as in some strange way I started writing my code in a very simular way (books are expensive you know) , bside the author was ; ???

I mean was he an architect at that point ???

------- Oh yes I guess a few examples could be taken as 2D "architectural" challances to be solved by object oriented programming, you alway's need examples I recon. But except from that and cutting a toe here and a heel there, I see this book as only a manual in Object Oriented Programming --- Software Architecture.

Do the Title indicate anything M "A pattern Language" ?

Then this software specialist uses architecture -- architecture as flat as it can be ,as a template to explain Object oriented programming , bside at that time every book about programming was about "a new language" of some sort ,true object oriented programming do owe a great deal to that early theoretical manuscript, but please it deal with a "Language" and here you see one of the "Rules" that is supposed to be written into code , so you learn to program ;

"Keep interlocking fingers of farmland and urban land, even at the center of the metropolis. The urban fingers should never be more than 1 mile wide."

Now is the above a rule for programming or is it "Architecture" ?

Christopher Alexander was already an architect at the time of writing the book. Even if it is kind of interesting to draw comparisons to programming, I think you're making it too easy for yourself by saying that any book with a system of rules is a book on software architecture. In that case a lot of books would fall into that category:

"The walking distance from a non-common room and at least one entrance to the fire compartment or the sub-firecompartiment wherein the room lies, is maximum 15 meters."

or

"The navel is naturally placed in the centre of the human body, and, if in a man lying with his face upward, and his hands and feet extended, from his navel as the centre, a circle be described, it will touch his fingers and toes. It is not alone by a circle, that the human body is thus circumscribed, as may be seen by placing it within a square. For measuring from the feet to the crown of the head, and then across the arms fully extended, we find the latter measure equal to the former; so that lines at right angles to each other, enclosing the figure, will form a square. "

- no reference to software there...

I found a few -- like this ;

http://www.patternlanguage.com/leveltwo/patternsframe.htm?/leveltwo/../history/ajustsostory6.htm

That page answers your question: "People liked our book very much. We were surprised though, when we found out computer programmers liked it, because it was about building not programming."

I like this one better ;

http://www.jacana.org.uk/pattern/P0.htm

remind me of the rules of accusision , sort of mix together of trend dynamics and hippie idears ment to be coded into a high level computation of every aspect of not just architecture but life at a whole. Any picture nomatter if it is build 1897 or 1972 seem to be used to "prove" these 254 rules a mixmax adding any trend issue into trend computing and a load of nonsense about "blueprints" a frase that also looses contenst just while defined as anything _but_ blueprints.

Look at each paragraph and you either think "what the heck , the last paragraph made rules about populations and in smooth words made that cover icecream, now this paragraph deal with pingqins and this is just the rules ------ Emagine someone put these things together into an architectural application ; what form would you emagine the house would distribuate ?

"
Now a pattern language is about patterns being like words. They stay the same but can be combined in different ways like words in a sentence. They can be used as in a network where one will call upon another (like a neuron network). When you build something you can put patterns together to form a language. So a language for your house might have patterns about transitions, light, ceiling height, connecting the second floor to the ground."

So words build the house, not the commitment for beauty or the mastery of the designer. --- Gee only a Software architect can say that.

Or someone with a remote interest in structuralism, gee!

Some things maybe first impac after time , then it is difficult what meaning modern architecture provide, my guess that most people know less then nothing, about the very walls ,floors ,what surround them in terms of matter and structure, no need to wonder , why detail and quality is the measure for good livings, everything need structure.

investigating what made it I find not as productive as it shuld be the results is not allway's nice ; we all know how beautifull a boat can be and yet, today's small vessels are as ugly as ever why ?

Esp why when all possibilities are there, 256 different Lego blocks will newer be the solution something much more flexible are required something that make you understand the house you live in maybe, Sorry but it could be my mistrust to the hippi like , I just want to ask if this then Delivered , if it did not all of the impac seem nice , today's architecture are with few exceptions Crap Basta.

Hello, I am in the process of setting up Private cloud infrastructure using workstations and looking for your recommendation on the software stack

 Requirements to  set up private cloud infrastructure are as following:

1.  User can get a compute space for their own use and once done it can be destroyed -
1. Admin portal where user can create VMs and allocate CPU, memory, GPU for a specific user
2. User once done can destroy the VM and allocated space return back to the pool
2. Remaining space can be utilized in such a way that - user can be able to schedule run machine learning CPU and GPU bound load. The idea is to train the model in these machines
3. As part of scheduling machine learning load if free space is not available then we should be able to schedule this load to AWS

 Thanks