The Philippe Back Report

Use Case 2.0 – Good stuff

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:12:50 +0000

The people at http://www.ivarjacobson.com have released an ebook on what they call the Use Case 2.0 The Definitive Guide. You can pick a copy. And also look at a presentation that may put some more context around it. They’ll ask you to fill in all kinds of fields… It merges: Use Cases Stories Kanban Agile [...]

Query and Update Sparx EA Repository with SQL

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:49:11 +0000

Sample Script to do it (using the Execute undocumented op) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 option explicit !INC Local Scripts.EAConstants-VBScript !INC EAScriptLib.VBScript-Logging ' ' Script [...]

How to identify your top 3 outcomes?

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:55:28 +0000

Yes, how to identify them? Let’s have a shot. 5 key areas First of all, let’s look at the five key areas of life: financial intellectual physical spiritual relational Picture yourself at the center of these 5. At this very moment in your life, are you financially happy, intellectually happy, physically happy, spiritually happy, relationally [...]

Apple brings an effective value upload pipe to the world

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:07:00 +0000

Apple released iBooks2 and a new textbook creation app for the Mac (You’ll need Lion for that, and even if these things are free, they’ll end up pocketing money from that new tide of upgrades – I know they will from me). Keynote already made a huge difference to helping me communicate to an audience [...]

To reach your outcomes, you need to be an optimist

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:13:08 +0000

Even if the world seems to be crumbling down As 2011 draws to a close, with the economy appearing to be sliding down, and Eurozone’s debt going exponentially up, I sometimes wonder if there is any rhyme or reason in all of this. Times are getting tougher, that’s a fact. Kind of stormy would be [...]

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Test of Logitech iPad 2 Keyboard by Zagg

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:24:28 +0000

I am now test driving the Logitech keyboard for iPad 2 by Zagg. I had read a rave review about it and wanted to test drive it first hand. Well, first thing is that the borders are annoying when typing. But even if they are a hassle, typing on the keyboard is fine and much [...]

Lego Mini Me, funny…

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:30:40 +0000

Sparx Systems releases Enterprise Architect 9.2

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:45:06 +0000

Breathing new Life into your Models Enterprise Architect 9.2 is a major upgrade which significantly extends simulation, adds new modeling languages, new debugging capabilities and new tools to manage your models. Here are some of the great things built into this new release: Bring your state machines and business processes to life with advanced simulation [...]

Getting luck on your side

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:48:09 +0000

It is a fact of life that we have a limited amount of time available. Much less than we usually think. That’s why it is very important to be careful about how we allocate it if we want to reach our top 3 outcomes. To reach our top 3 outcomes, whatever they are, we would love to have luck on our [...]

Windows Live Writer: useful to blog without a connection

phil@highoctane.be (Philippe Back) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:56:39 +0000

Sometimes, you just can’t write directly to your blog. Maybe you are at a conference and the Wifi is overcrowded and service is patchy. Maybe you have not enough battery to last through the session if you leave Wifi on. Whatever the cause, you’d like to blog off line and put the information on line [...]

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