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Just before heading home from TechEd 2009 in LA, I recorded a couple of online interviews, which are now available: Patterns for Moving to the Cloud: Recorded with Denny Boynton, host of ARCast...
Today is my last day at TechEd 2009 in LA, and as promised, Ive uploaded the presentations from the three talks that Ive given this week. Thanks again to everyone that attended my talks, and I r...
Ive recently been involved on a project that has a requirement to create and view XPS documents in Silverlight. The application needs to display the XPS file in a full screen window together wit...
I wanted to share the details of two cloud computing sessions that I will be presenting at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles next month: ISB204: The Impact of the Cloud and Software as a Servic...
One of my favorite features of Outlook 2007 is Search Folders. A Search Folder is a dynamic folder, automatically populated based on a query. For example, a Search Folder can be used to sh...
Jim Wilt and I had an interesting discussion today, around the role of software architecture in the current economy. I shared some thoughts around something Ive been thinking that I call micro a...
Coming to PDC? Interested in what it means to move to the cloud? If so, you should definitely check out the PDC symposium this year. The symposium is three sessions that wrap up...
I wanted to share a couple of updates about the Microsoft Architecture Journal: 1. Issue 16 has just been released to the web! You can find it here, and can also download a PDF version of...
Interested in writing for the next issue of the Architecture Journal - and having your article read by over 62,000 people in multiple languages, and distributed at PDC and SAF this year? If so, ...
It's a good question - and one that we try to answer in the current version of the Architecture Journal, aptly titled "The Role of an Architect". There are a lot of great articles in...
When I started blogging, I made a promise that I would never write one of those posts that starts "I'm sorry I haven't blogged in a long time, but I've been really busy...". Well, here...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Good news from Karsten's blog. The source code for the hierarchical view carousel has been released. I played around with this WPF code a couple of years ago and found it very us...
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...
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...
Rich Application or Web Application? ASP.NET or Sharepoint? Regular ASPX controls or AJAX? In sessions at conferences (most recently TechEd in Barcelona), I've been discussing th...
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...
When I was attending the ALT.NET conference a couple of weekends ago, it became apparent that few people had even heard of the Agile Development Center that we had on MSDN. To help it becom...
Ok, so I spent the last couple of weeks with the DVORAK layout. The experience was enlightening, if not physically and mentally challenging at times. My conclusions from my limit...
This past weekend (5th 7th October) I headed down to the ALT.NET conference in Austin, TX. ALT.NET can be best described as a group of industry influencers, who are striving to create quality s...
Starting with Issue 14, the Architecture Journal will feature architecture case studies in each issue. We will dedicate one or two pages in each issue to some of the most intriguing architectur...
The folks at IASA have announced three upcoming software architect conferences in the US. There are three dates and locations during September and October: Atlanta, GA - September 13 - 14 W...
Talking of IASA conferences (see last post), one of the areas in IT infrastructure architecture that I see becoming exciting is the "Green Datacenter". A colleague of mine, Lewis Curtis, ...
The latest issue of the Microsoft Architecture Journal (Issue 12) is now live! The theme of this issue is Web Architecture. Leading the issue with the topic of Web 2.0 in the Enterprise, we have...
Like me, you may write a fair number of articles and documents. Like me, you may also be constantly distracted by alerts, pings, toolbars, the temptation to ALT-TAB when you are writing. Re...
It appears that the sessions/videos from the Microsoft Architecture Forum in Japan have been posted online here. The site lists sessions from Gianpaolo Carraro, Ron Jacobs, Mike Platt ...
Today concludes Adaptive Path's UXWeek conference in Washington DC. Overall, it's been an interesting experience for me personally, especially connecting with full time UX practitioner...
This week I'm in Washington DC attending Adaptive Path's UXWeek 2007. This is my first experience of Washington DC and an Adaptive Path conference, and I'm looking forward to both. Deborah...
Its been a crazy few weeks here, wrapping up the current issue of the Microsoft Architecture Journal, which goes to print later this month. Due to popular request, the theme of the next issue (Issue #...
Yesterday, my team launched Skyscrapr - a new site on MSDN dedicated to provide guidance for readers who want to become architects. One of the most common complaints I hear from people that...
Microsofts Architecture Journal is a quarterly magazine, providing a world-class forum for the publication of unique articles on how good architecture can help create great implementations. Microsoft...
If you've been involved in any WPF development, you'll know that there are two main ways of deploying a WPF application: You can create a client executable that runs standalone or an XBAP (...
At the end of February I'll be hitting the road for a four day speaking tour around Canada, courtesy of my friend Mohammad. I'll be visiting Ottawa, Toronto, Quebec City, and Montreal all in the...
I've been running a pre-release version of Vista on our home machine for a while now, so I was amused to read this correction through PRNewswire. I think we should start a new worldwide program ...
As of last Friday I became the proud owner of a Samsung Blackjack. The device is very small and runs Windows Mobile 5.0, which makes reading, sending Email, and just generally being "in sy...
As we plan for TechEd 2007 in Orlando this summer, our team is looking for expert speakers to present sessions on architecture, and we were hoping you would be interested. Occurring from 4-...
Microsoft’s Architecture Journal is a quarterly magazine, providing a world-class forum for the publication of unique articles on how good architecture can help create great implementations. Mi...
Ron has posted a new ARCast with Scott Guthrie about his career at Microsoft, and some general thoughts on what he thinks about Architecture. We are going to publish this as part of our new prof...
Over the past few days I've been exploring the extensibility of IE7 from a user experience perspective. One of the options for creating an Add-On for IE is something called the Br...
At Microsoft we have just completed our giving campaign. This is an annual company-wide effort to give time and money to charity. This year, while on paternity leave, I decided to hel...
A video recording of my session at TechEd US this year (called "Putting the User back into SOA") has been posted here....
Ted Neward has started a new column on the MSDN Architecture Center called Pragmatic Architecture. In his introduction he finally comes clean: With another deep breath, I finally blurt it out: "...
You may want to take a second look! Diego Dagum and team have been putting a lot of effort in improving the site, changing the navigation and uploading more content. In the last three mont...
I've had a happy time on http://blogs.msdn.com, but having decided to make some changes to my site, I'm going to go it alone and run my own version of Community Server. If you are read...
If you are reading this post, welcome to my new weblog (and welcome back if you have just redirected from my previous blog on MSDN!). I hope you've had chance to update any RS...
Software Architects have a tough job. They need to be experts in mapping business needs to technology, understanding the IT organization, and domain specific areas such as service orientation, w...
I have a new position in my team looking for a User Experience (UX) Architect Evangelist. I'm still working on the official job description, but given the level of interest in my last postin...
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