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Introduction to the ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model...

DotNetJohn.Com, May 8, 2008

The provider model defines an easy plug-and-play architecture in Microsoft .NET. This article discusses ASP.NET's new features, like Membership, Personalization, and Profile....

Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Gallery for Sharing Photos, Video, Audio and Other Media

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 7, 2008

Gallery Server Pro is a complete, stable ASP.NET gallery for sharing photos, video, audio and other media. This article presents the overall architecture and major features....

Why Architects should care about Robots...

simon.says, April 25, 2008

Today, Marc Mercuri, an architect in my team, launched one of the most exciting things I've seen for sometime:  RoboChamps RoboChamps is an online, virtual robotics competition that makes use...

We Don't Need No Architects--Really!

+dotNetTemplar+, April 23, 2008

Just reading the first article in the latest edition of Microsoft's The Architecture Journal. It's called "We Don't Need No Architects" by Joseph Hofstader. I thought, oh good, someone voicing a di...

Model View Presenter And Its Best Practices

The Code Project Latest Articles, April 23, 2008

The article describes Model View Presenter Architecture,its Best practices and advantages....

Software architecture document size

Cirrus Minor, April 22, 2008

Simon @ CodingTheArchitcture recently asked "How big is your software architecture document? (and who reads this stuff anyway?)" He notes that in a UG meeting most of the attendees has SADs that w...

Looks, walks, and quacks like a O/RM

Dino Espositos WebLog, April 21, 2008

OK, it's not a problem to admit that I have no copyright on it, but I just love to use it. It looks like a O/RM, it walks like a O/RM, it quacks like a O/RM. Hence, it's O/RM... What am I talking abo...

Creating Software is Not Like Building

+dotNetTemplar+, April 15, 2008

I'm becoming more and more averse to the term architecture and architect in terms of creating software, partially because it is such an overloaded term that seems to cause so much continual opining a...

DataServices World: Data is the Primary Component of Architecture, Including SOA

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, April 14, 2008

An increasing number of verticals are using Data Services - services that deal with the production or consumption of data - to solve real business problems and deliver key information...all completely...

Architecture Journal Issue 16 - Call For Papers

simon.says, April 13, 2008

The next issue of the Architecture Journal will be focused on Identity Architectures. As more organizations embrace a services based infrastructure, the need to manage the identities of users in an o...

Article: Building a n-tiered internet application using ASP.NET (.NET 3.5, LINQ)

ASP.NET Announcements, April 11, 2008

hi all,I know this may sound like personal advertising, and into some extent it is...I've been building this ASP.NET application called "Blogo.NET", a good-looking blog application. It&#...

DNN Syndication Pamphlet

Shaun Walker, April 5, 2008

This document aims to start discussion on an improved syndication architecture for DotNetNuke. There are various developments relating to syndication that warrant a critical examination, and a possibl...

DataServices World: Data Services Layer and Its Role in SOA

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, April 1, 2008

The ever-increasing movement towards implementing complex SOA-based applications has triggered a direct attention of leading industry researchers and practitioners to the subject of layering in such a...

Software Factory refresh for VS 2008

Somasegars WebLog, March 27, 2008

About a year ago I blogged about Software Factories and the great response from people who were using them.    Software Factories have continued to be a useful resource for the community an...

Defining SOA - Part IV - Pipes and Filters

Cirrus Minor, March 22, 2008

This post is part of a series of posts trying to define SOA as an architectural style. In the previous post I talked about SOA and the Layered architecture style (which generated a couple of follow...

ASP.NET Internals: Request Architecture

The Code Project Latest Articles, March 16, 2008

Explains in depth the ASP.NET request architecture...

SOA Viewpoint: Layers are Encapsulations and Tiers Are Barriers

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, March 11, 2008

I came across an interesting article of Arnon Rotem-Gal-OZ about the (mis)use of the layered architecture style. I found it an interesting article, although I have an essentially different view. I th...

Coming Next in Web Development: RIA + SOA

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, March 11, 2008

The world of web development is moving away from MVC-based web architectures and towards a client/server model that is probably best described as RIA + SOA, where RIA represents the rich user interfac...

Thought-provoking "architecture" Austin .Net User Group meeting tonight

Jeffrey Palermo, March 11, 2008

For more information about the Austin .Net and Agile community, subscribe to my feed:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/jeffreypalermo. I just got back from an Austin .Net User Group meeting, and...

Next-Generation Web Platforms: The Next Episode Is RIA + SOA

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, March 7, 2008

The world of web development is moving away from MVC-based web architectures and towards a client/server model that is probably best described as RIA + SOA, where RIA represents the rich user interfac...

Layers/Tiers tidbit

Cirrus Minor, March 6, 2008

Jack Van Hoof has a different view than I have on the difference between Tiers and Layers. I am not sure I agree with his view, but it still provides an interesting read. I think the main differenc...

The Digital Black Belt's Guide to Building Secure ASP.NET AJAX Applications

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, March 6, 2008

You think your ASP.NET AJAX application is secure, but how do you know? Are you SURE? Would you bet your career on it? Secure application design is 1/3 Architecture, 1/3 Code, and 1/3 Operations. You ...

101 x 101 Articles on Becoming an Architect

simon.says, March 3, 2008

As you may have seen from previous posts, my team has been working on a set of materials for those that want to have the title of "architect" at some point in their career.  Last week we publis...

Now I-Design Code

Dino Espositos WebLog, February 29, 2008

It's been a while since last post, and it's only few weeks since I officially joined IDesign. My debut with the new logo on the badge is this week in Frankfurt, BASTA conference. This year the c...

Importing an Excel Spreadsheet Using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters: Building the Database

4GuysFromRolla.com Headlines, February 27, 2008

In most data-driven Web applications, users add data to the database by entering it through a web page. While this works well for most scenarios, there are times when the user has already collected t...

The Layered Architecture Style

Cirrus Minor, February 5, 2008

Following the third part of my "Defining SOA" posts Udi Dahan left the following two questions:How does this [layers - ARGO] play with two services talking with each other? One pubs to the other...

Unit testing WPF applications using MVC

Federal Developer Weblog, January 28, 2008

Josh Smith has great article on his approach to building "unit test-friendly" WPF applications by using the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern.  I just love this statement from the art...

Defining SOA - Part III - Layered System

Cirrus Minor, January 26, 2008

This post is part of a series of posts trying to define SOA as an architectural style. In the previous post I talked about how SOA builds on the Client/Server architectural style. In this post I'll...

Reader SDK Released!

simon.says, January 19, 2008

The Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit & Reader SDK (a.k.a. the same technology that we used to build the Architecture Journal Reader) has now been released on http://www.windowsclient.net....

Cambrian - Admin Modules

Joe Brinkman, January 2, 2008

In the keynote at OpenForce, Shaun mentioned that the next version of DotNetNuke (codenamed "Cambrian") would contain an improved Admin experience. As part of the preparation for this I have been wo...

Caching with Weak References in .NET

DevX: .NET Feed, December 27, 2007

Caching can help minimize network traffic when building service-oriented architecture applications; unfortunately, Microsoft's Caching Application Block falls short in a few areas....

SQL SERVER - ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability)

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, December 9, 2007

ACID (an acronymn for Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability) is a concept that Database Professionals generally look for when evaluating databases and application architectures. For a reliable d...

SQLAuthority Author Visit - IT Outsourcing to India - Top 10 Reasons Companies Outsource

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, December 4, 2007

Yesterday I had meeting with few of the leading outsourcing companies in Ahmedabad, India. Regular readers of this blog knows that I am currently in India handling large scale outsourcing assignment. ...

Was My Code Provability Post An Inspiration To Joel?

youve been HAACKED, December 4, 2007

Note that in the same vein as Pele, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, Joel has reach that Brazillian Soccer player level of stardom in the geek community and can pretty much go by just his first name. Admit it...

Who needs an architect anyway? Part III - the other responsibilities

Cirrus Minor, December 2, 2007

In the previous installment I talked about the architect and the architectural decisions, I also said (ok, wrote) that architects do more than that. Well, here are a few of the duties I think archi...

Simple Sharing Extensions for .NET

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), November 30, 2007

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been very busy lately working with Daniel, Mariano and other guys here in Clarius on an open-source implementation of Simple Sharing Extensions for .NET. The ...

Simple Sharing Extensions for .NET

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), November 30, 2007

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been very busy lately working with Daniel, Mariano and other guys here in Clarius on an open-source implementation of Simple Sharing Extensions for .NET. The ...

Your Opportunity to Speak at TechEd 2008!

simon.says, November 29, 2007

The call for sessions tool is now open for the Architecture track at the TechEd Developers conference (3-6 June 2008).  This year, the Architecture track will focus on three core areas: Person...

Architecture Journal Reader

Thom Robbins .NET Weblog, November 28, 2007

A great download to check out - We're proud to announce a new offline experience for the Journal, called the "Architecture Journal Reader." Demonstrating many of the UX principles highlighted in rec...

Introducing the Architecture Journal Reader

simon.says, November 27, 2007

With 13 issues and over 60,000 subscribers, you are probably already familiar with the printed and PDF versions of the Microsoft Architecture Journal. At the Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) last week...

Performance Threat Models

Rico Marianis Performance Tidbits, November 13, 2007

I've been meaning to post this for ages and somehow I kept forgetting. J.D. and I have long thought that many of the techniques used to do a security threat model are actually directly applicable to d...

Great articles on SharePoint Design

Eli Robillards World of Blog., November 7, 2007

From Mark Jones, these should be required reading for all SharePoint development team leads, project managers and architects: Architecture and Design Lessons Learned SharePoint Development and Engine...

At TechEd Developers Europe

simon.says, November 5, 2007

This week I'm in Barcelona for TechEd Developers Europe where I have a session called "Putting the User back into Architecture".  If you are at TechEd, be sure to stop on by - it's tomorrow (Tu...

The Joy of NAD

Simple Talk, October 30, 2007

Phil Factor convenes a short meeting to discuss the data architecture for storing a client's contact details...how painful could it be?...

Who needs an architect anyway? Part II - The architect and architecutal decisions

Cirrus Minor, October 29, 2007

Let's assume I convinced you that some projects need architects (see part I). Convinced, you go and hire an architect. now what? Let's start by looking at "architectural decisions" - which is sur...

On .NET Rocks

Dino Espositos WebLog, October 10, 2007

On .NET Rocks next week, Oct 16 to chat with Richard and Carl about AJAX architectures and Silverlight. And why ... Silverlight 1.0 is currently similar to a declarative and programmable platform to b...

The various meanings of TDD

ISerializable, October 9, 2007

Now that I'm having some real time to write something I thought I'd try to write down my thoughts starting all the way back from JAOO and what I learned from it. Specifically the whole notion of ...

Enabling Offline SOA Using SDO and ADO.NET

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, October 6, 2007

Enterprises frequently have to deal with part of their infrastructure that doesn't have the privilege of uninterrupted connectivity. Such system environments designed using Service Oriented Architectu...

What is that SOA thingy again?

Cirrus Minor, October 5, 2007

Pete Lacey has a post called "What is SOA?" where he defines SOA as follows:" Network Oriented Computing (NOC): An approach to computing that makes business logic available over the network in ...

The .NET/Java architect training program - part II

Cirrus Minor, October 4, 2007

In the previous post on the subject I promised to expand a little more on the suggested content for "Distributed Systems Architectures Workshop" so here a short drill-down: Even though most of th...

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