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 at the event, and look at ...

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 across a wide range of companies, cultures, and ...

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. 

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 an architect.  Think of these as a set of level 101 articles that cover ...

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 seventh year, being an invite-only event we traditionally haven't shared ...

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:   URLs: User Interface Hall of ...

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 idea what presenting in a tent will entail... :)

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 become more discoverable, we've now fixed a few of the URLs. You can now access the site through this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/agile We are ...

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 software on the .NET platform” (see this Yahoo group for a full  description).  Some of this focus reaches outside the mainstream (e.g. ...

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 Washington D.C. - October 8 - 9 San Diego, CA - October 15 - 16 I will be speaking at the San Diego on the 15th October, after Scott Ambler's ...