Keith Short's Blog
At last week’s PDC, the new name for our repository and modeling project was announced –...
Date: 11/23/2009
I just looked at Mikael Håkansson’s blog article on building a Web Service Model using M...
Date: 07/09/2009
It’s been a while since my last posting. Why? The truth is quite simple – about five...
Date: 05/26/2009
We’re just getting back into the swing of things after a couple of weeks break over the...
Date: 01/09/2009
I’ve had a few people ask me about the connection between the Microsoft Software Factories...
Date: 12/08/2008
Doug has published a response to an Open Letter addressed to him from Lars Corneliussen. I think...
Date: 11/18/2008
I’ve received a number of questions concerning the relationship of Oslo to the Visual Studio...
Date: 11/06/2008
The PDC is now over and by all measures has been a great success. The Oslo talks have been received...
Date: 10/31/2008
Yet again, it’s been a long time since I wrote to my blog. This posting is my restart. I know,...
Date: 10/24/2008
I’ve been lax with my blog for the last two months. I plan to do better this year! During the...
Date: 01/06/2006
OOPSLA 2005 in San Diego was a fun event. It was great to chat with lots of old friends and sit in...
Date: 10/31/2005
After the announcement last week of this great piece of technology, we can finally all start to talk...
Date: 09/23/2005
Back off three weeks vacation always causes severe "re-entry" problems! But digging myself out of...
Date: 08/24/2005
A couple of interesting items have appeared recently that will be of interest to folks following our...
Date: 07/01/2005
My team has written a document that explains Microsoft’s Modeling Strategy and addresses a...
Date: 05/27/2005
Although I have been lax at blogging again this last month, the team has been extremely busy with...
Date: 05/20/2005
I have been speaking to customers and partners recently (last week in Japan) about Software...
Date: 04/18/2005
Wow! We heard that our Software Factories book was awarded a “Productivity Award” in the...
Date: 03/24/2005
In Steve Cook’s interview, Steve gives a great one sentence definition of a Software Factory....
Date: 03/17/2005
Steve Cook, my colleague based in Cambridge, UK, has just posted a very interesting interview with...
Date: 03/16/2005
To start the ball rolling, I thought I’d write down the Software Factory elevator story....
Date: 03/08/2005
It’s been a long time since I wrote to my blog. This posting is my restart. One of the reasons...
Date: 03/07/2005
It’s been a long time since I wrote to my blog. This posting is my restart. One of the reasons...
Date: 03/07/2005
We’re into our third day here at OOPSLA. On Monday, Jack Greenfield, Steve Cook and I...
Date: 10/27/2004
I’m very much looking forward to going to OOPSLA next weekend. Microsoft will be making...
Date: 10/16/2004
My last posting concerned availability (or otherwise) of the Software Factory book on Amazon. We...
Date: 09/22/2004
I've received a large number of unpublished feedback items asking why Amazon is still showing the...
Date: 09/22/2004
I have just got back from my vacation - which was wonderful. Having a complete break –...
Date: 08/12/2004
It seems that others are coming to many of the same conclusions that we have reached concerning...
Date: 07/09/2004
This week I’ve been working on a paper that we’ll publish in Software Development...
Date: 06/18/2004
There’s been quite an interesting discussion that was triggered from the session I gave at...
Date: 06/04/2004
Now that we’re back from TechEd 2004, it’s back to the grind again. I’ve pointed...
Date: 06/02/2004
The Visual Studio Team System session at TechEd·2004 was a great success. The team did a...
Date: 05/26/2004
Well, I can’t believe it’s been a month since my last posting. I will try to do better...
Date: 05/24/2004
My colleague Alan Wills has recently started a blog. Some may remember Alan as the co-author of the...
Date: 04/26/2004
Well, it's always fun for us in the Product Groups when Bill Gates mentions your project in a speech...
Date: 03/31/2004
Posting the screen shot of the Whitehorse Class Designer last week gave us some useful feedback and...
Date: 03/16/2004
I had promised last week that I would post some screen shots of the Whitehorse Class Designer tool....
Date: 03/05/2004
Just read CSharpeners Blog entry concerning Whitehorse here. I'm glad to see this dialog taking...
Date: 02/26/2004
Well, the last two weeks have been quite busy. Earlier this week I was at the Microsoft Western...
Date: 02/13/2004
Hello, My name is Keith Short, and I’m an Architect in the Visual Studio Enterprise Tools...
Date: 02/12/2004