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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 the last day of the PDC - the goal of which is to "connect...
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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 the magazine here . The theme of issue 16 is...
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Today we announced the dates for this year's Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum, also known as SAF. This year we will be holding SAF on the 19th - 22nd November 2008 in San Francisco. Now in it's 7th year, SAF is one of my favorite events - a gathering...
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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, check out the call for papers from Diego Dagum . ...
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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 this issue, although my favorite has to be the "A-Z...
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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 I am writing one of those posts... A couple...
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On Monday I had the privilege of presenting at the TechEd 2008 pre-conference, the subject was "An Architectural Overview of Software + Services". In my presentation, I wanted to show the architectural angle of the S+S message. What...
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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 of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 and Microsoft...
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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 organization becomes more and more important. Issues...
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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 published a new set of content on MSDN: 101 x 101 articles on becoming...
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...and it's from Amazon. Seriously. I've been happily buying books and electronics from Amazon for years, when last week I happened to stumble across Amazon's new site, Amazon Fresh . Although it's very much in startup mode (they only offer service to...
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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 . This is a great way to build offline, immersive,...
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A little late, but Happy New Year! For those that subscribe to this blog to keep track of the latest with the Architecture Journal, we have just released the online articles for Issue 14 (Mobile Architecture). You can check it out on http://www.architecturejournal.net...
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Each November my team holds a conference called SAF - the Strategic Architect Forum - an event where we invite the top 250 IT Architects from organizations around the world for three days of discussions and sessions. Although the conference is in it's...
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We've just put the final touches on Issue 14 of the Microsoft Architecture Journal , which goes to print later this month. As we head into the New Year, the theme of the next issue will be around The Role of an Architect . This is the first time that...
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Like many people, I have VOIP at home - my current provider is Vonage . One of the features of Vonage is an international virtual number. This gives me a local number in the UK that my family can dial, which automatically redirects to my home number here...
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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 useful for displaying navigable, hierarchical sets of data. As Karsten mentions,...
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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: · Persona (for example, “What is an architect?”, “How do I become...
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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 we released a new way of reading the Journal: The...
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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 the many choices that architects and developers face every day, especially...
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In case you missed it, Issue 13 of the Architecture Journal is now live here in online format. The theme for this issue is Software + Services , and includes articles on the Internet Service Bus, Astoria, Software + Services consumption for Enterprise...
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What I love about GTD (Getting Things Done) is that everyone has their own take on what works for them. I often find myself refactoring my own GTD system every month or so with minor tweaks that make things a little more efficient. Josh Fialkoff has a...
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I often get asked the difference between User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX). Although the original intent and definition of UI started out in the right direction, too many times I've heard it used to explain just the visual aspects (or cool...
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Thanks to all who came to my session this morning on "Putting the User back into Architecture" - I really enjoyed the session. Looking at the feedback, many of you asked for a recap of the URLs and other references that I had in the deck. Here they are:...
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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 (Tuesday) at 9am in "Tent 2". (and before you ask, no - I've no...
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