The Secret

Blaine knows the secret...

Accidental architectures arise from information exposure. Knowing what to expose and what to hide takes thought and planning in design. It just doesn't happen.

This applies not just to an isolated software application. This applies to an entire enterprise information system. Eliminating unnecessary dependencies among components is the key to managable evolution of software systems.

Abstracting Over Time

Motz writes about a recent talk by Richard Gabriel, including better abstractions for time...

there is nothing like abstracting over time (mp3) which leads to a system that - compared with the real world - would mean that "if you go to the beach, you would need a place in your brain that let you remember that you went to the beach".