By Simon|Architecture, Events, Technology|Be the first to comment!
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, we chat about where applications live, and what applications make sense for the cloud. We also cover a set of patterns that [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Blogs, Events, Technology|Be the first to comment!
Today is my last day at TechEd 2009 in LA, and as promised, I’ve uploaded the presentations from the three talks that I’ve given this week. Thanks again to everyone that attended my talks, and I really enjoyed speaking with many of you after the presentations. PRC02 – Demystifying the Cloud This is the presentation [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Events, Technology|1 Comment
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 Service – 5/11/2009 4:30PM-5:45PM ARC308: Patterns for Moving to the Cloud – 5/12/2009 8:30AM-9:45AM The first session (ISB204) is part of [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Aspiring Architect, Technology, UX|Be the first to comment!
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 I’ve been thinking that I call “micro architectures” (for lack of a better name). Let me start with a personal dilemma: I’m debating moving my blog (currently running an old [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Events, Technology|1 Comment
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 the dots" between everything that you’ll have heard [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Aspiring Architect, Technology|Be the first to comment!
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 Identity and Access, and Diego explains more about the articles [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Events|4 Comments
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 of around 350 of the smartest architects [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Aspiring Architect, Events|Be the first to comment!
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. The theme of the next issue is around distributed computing.
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Aspiring Architect|3 Comments
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 guide to being an architect" by Mark Bloodworth and Marc [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Blogs, Technology|Be the first to comment!
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 Visual Studio 2008. The concept of the competition is to program a series of robots to complete [...]
Continue Reading →