July 2008 - Posts

Is your enterprise ready for the Digital Natives?
Prensky: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Today‟s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big Read More...
Posted 22 July 08 04:44 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Architects need to ask the right questions: Strategic Questioning
Architects are at the edge of business and IT and hence to create the best solution it is crucial to ask the right questions to business and IT. Those magical questions (and listening) that really make a difference and fire-up that strategic, creative Read More...
Posted 22 July 08 04:21 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Infrastructure Architects: who are they, what is their goal in life?
Forrester: Infrastructure Architects Link Technology Strategy With Long-Term EA And Business Goals The specifics of various architecture roles have become a hot topic as enterprise architecture (EA) practices have matured. A common role in many organizations Read More...
Posted 22 July 08 04:06 by pdestoop | 1 Comments   
Microsoft is evil. Apple, Google, Linux are the good guys. Right?
Microsoft is evil and Google isn't, right? Maybe not, after recent events, writes columnist Rob Enderle from TechNewsWorld . He also is revising his impression of Richard Stallman as an advocate of freedom, and Apple as a company that makes all the right. Read More...
Posted 22 July 08 11:06 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Stairway to haven and/or hell
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2008/06/brand-stairway.html Read More...
Posted 14 July 08 09:32 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Web3D - The Next Major Internet Wave?
The World Wide Web has become an ingrained part of the way we work. No one ponders, these days, the fact that the Web links a vast system of documents, data, social networks, and applications running on servers all around the world. But in 1990, the Web Read More...
Posted 11 July 08 07:31 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
MS developer framework for building claims-based applications
Microsoft has released the public beta of the “Zermatt” developer framework for building claims-based applications. Application Access Challenges Today Today’s application access paradigm is increasingly costly and difficult to manage for developers and Read More...
Posted 10 July 08 12:46 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide
The BizTalk Customer Advisory Team and BizTalk UE team are pleased to announce the first edition of the “ Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide ”. The Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide is the second installment Read More...
Posted 09 July 08 05:16 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Domain Driven Design Quickly
The book(let) “Domain Driven Design Quickly” discussed below can be downloaded free from InfoQ at http://www.infoq.com/books/domain-driven-design-quickly . The most complicated aspect of large software projects is not the implementation, it is the real Read More...
Posted 09 July 08 07:56 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Release of Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS 7 CTP1.
Application Request Routing for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server variables, and load balance algorithms. Application Request Routing can be used to: · Increase application Read More...
Posted 07 July 08 06:57 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Source: Stacey Higginbotham, Gigaom http://gigaom.com/2008/07/01/10-reasons-enterprises-arent-ready-to-trust-the-cloud/ Many entrepreneurs today have their heads in the clouds. They’re either outsourcing most of their network infrastructure to a provider Read More...
Posted 04 July 08 04:19 by pdestoop | 1 Comments   
Patterns & Practices: Composite Application Guidance for WPF
Microsoft patterns & practices is pleased to announce the latest addition to the p&p library: Composite Application Guidance for WPF, June 2008 Release Resources: MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/compositewpf (use http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707819.aspx Read More...
Posted 04 July 08 07:00 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless
"My CIO is clueless." These are words you don't want to hear if you want to earn the respect of your application development professionals. So how do you avoid being a clueless CIO? Steer clear of these behaviors: 1. The CIO is a control nut. If you want Read More...
Posted 03 July 08 07:21 by pdestoop | 1 Comments   
Secure your SOA with the patterns & practices WCF Security Guide
The Microsoft P&P team released the beta of the WCF Security guide This is the Microsoft playbook for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF ) It shows you how to build secure Web services using WCF. It's a compendium of proven practices, product team Read More...
Posted 02 July 08 08:00 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Real-life Dilbert manager quotes
A magazine recently ran a 'Dilbert Quotes' contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. These were voted the top ten quotes in corporate America : 'As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access Read More...
Posted 01 July 08 07:50 by pdestoop | 3 Comments   

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