I work for Red Hat, where I lead JBoss technical direction and research/development. Prior to this I was SOA Technical Development Manager and Director of Standards. I was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, an HP spin-off (where I was a Distinguished Engineer). I've been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's. My PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. I'm also a Professor at Newcastle University and Lyon.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Mind maps
I first came across mind maps back in the last 1980's when a friend/colleague at the University started to use them. I didn't really think any more of them until recently, when another friend pointed me at XMind. Very nice piece of software and it's opened up a whole new way of doing things for me. Gone are my scraps of paper, hastily scrawled notes and other ad hoc approaches!
Another one I have seen people use (I know someone that even does all their data modelling in it next to their thoughts):
ReplyDeletehttp://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
(java, open source). Works nice (or used to) on Leopard/OS-X, haven't tried it in recent times.